JUBILEE CALENDAR FOR THE MONTH OF MAY

VATICAN CITY, MAY 2, 2000 (VIS) - Following are the Jubilee events scheduled for May 2000:

- Saturday 6: Recitation of the Rosary in the Basilica of St. Mary Major.
- Sunday 7: Third Sunday of Easter. Ecumenical celebration at the Colosseum for the commemoration of the Witnesses to the Faith of the 20th century.

- Friday, 12: Pope John Paul departs for Fatima, Portugal.

- Saturday 13: Recitation of the Rosary in the Basilica of St. Mary Major. In Fatima, the Pope beatifies Jacinta and Francisco, two of the three shepherd children who saw the Virgin Mary on the site of the shrine six times between May 13 and October 13, 1917. The third child, Sr. Lucia, is a cloistered nun, living in Portugal.

- Sunday 14: Fourth Sunday of Easter. World Day of Prayer for Vocations. Mass and priestly ordinations in St. Peter's Basilica.
- Thursday 18: Holy Father's 80th birthday. Mass in St. Peter's Basilica for the Jubilee of the Clergy. A concert by the London Philharmonic in the Paul VI Hall.

- Saturday 20: Recitation of the Rosary in the Basilica of St. Mary Major.

- Sunday, 20: Fifth Sunday of Easter. Mass and canonization in St. Peter's Square.

- Thursday 25: Mass in St. Peter's Basilica for the Jubilee of Scientists.

- Friday 26: Divine Liturgy in the Alexandrine-Ethiopian rite (Feast of Mary Covenant of Mercy) in the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels.

- Saturday 27: Recitation of the Rosary in the Basilica of St. Mary Major.

- Sunday 28: Sixth Sunday of Easter. Celebration of Mass in St. Peter's Square. Jubilee of the Diocese of Rome.

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