PROGRAM OF EVENTS FOR JUBILEE OF WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT

VATICAN CITY, DEC 2, 2000 (VIS) - Released today was a tentative calendar of events for the December 15 to 17 Jubilee of the World of Entertainment.

On Friday December 15 at 9 a.m. a welcome gathering is scheduled to take place at the basilica of St. Mary Major, followed by greetings from Archbishop John Foley and Bishop Pierfranco Pastore, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, and a marian celebration. In the afternoon, at the basilica of Holy Cross in Jerusalem, participants will renew their baptismal vows and take part in a penitential celebration. Archbishop Stephen Fumio Hamao is scheduled to preside. He will be joined by Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M.Cap. preacher of the papal household. There will be a procession from Holy Cross in Jerusalem to St. John Lateran where a Eucharistic celebration will take place.

On Saturday, December 16, starting at 9 a.m., street artists will parade from Rome's central Piazza del Popolo to the Church of St. Ignatius where there will be an ecumenical celebration presided over by Cardinal Edward Cassidy. In the afternoon Cardinal Poupard will lead celebrations at the Titanus Studios where those in the world of entertainment will be given the opportunity to express, through their art, the reasons which persuaded them to accept the Holy Father's invitation to participate in the Jubilee.

At 8 a.m. on Sunday, December 17, artists will process from Castel Sant'Angelo to St. Peter's Square. At 9:30, Pope John Paul will preside at a Eucharistic celebration inside St. Peter's Basilica (not at St. Paul's as previously announced), after which he will recite the angelus in the square.

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