OPENING OF THE JUBILEE OF THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT

VATICAN CITY, DEC 15, 2000 (VIS) - Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, led the traditional Jubilee Year evening prayer in St. Peter's Square last night, on the vigil of the Jubilee of the World of Entertainment which officially opens today.

The first event of this jubilee celebration took place this morning at St. Mary Major Basilica. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Pierfranco Pastore, council secretary, greeted the participants and the archbishop delivered a homily during a marian celebration.

Later this afternoon Cardinal Giovanni Cheli will preside at a penitential service in the basilica of Holy Cross in Jerusalem, following which there will be a procession to St. John Lateran Basilica. Bishop Cesare Nosiglia, auxiliary of the diocese of Rome, will preside at a Eucharistic celebration in St. John Lateran.

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