LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS PRESIDED BY POPE: SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER

VATICAN CITY, SEP 9, 2002 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff has made public the calendar of celebrations that is scheduled to be presided over by the Holy Father from September 28 to November 5, 2002:

SEPTEMBER

- Saturday, 28: 26th Sunday in ordinary time. Mass at 6 p.m. in memory of Popes Paul VI and John Paul I at the main altar of the Vatican Basilica.

OCTOBER

- Friday, 4: Ecumenical celebration with Vespers on the 7th Centennial of the birth of St. Brigid of Sweden at 6 p.m. in the Vatican Basilica.
- Sunday, 6: 27th Sunday in ordinary time. Canonization of Blessed Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer in St. Peter's Square at 10 a.m.
- Sunday, 13: 28th Sunday in ordinary time. Mass at 9:30 a.m. in the Vatican Basilica on the occasion of the visit of His Beatitude Teoctist, patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
- Friday, 18: Mass at 5:30 p.m. in the Vatican Basilica for the beginning of the academic year of the Ecclesiastical Universities.
- Sunday, 20: 29th Sunday in ordinary time. At 10 a.m. in St. Peter's Square, Beatification of the Servants of God: Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa, Andrea Giacinto Longhin, Marcantonio Durando, Mary of the Passion (nee Helene Marie de Chappotin de Neuville) and Liduina Meneguzzi.

NOVEMBER

- Friday, 1, Solemnity of All Saints: Moment of prayer for deceased popes at 6 p.m. in the Vatican Grottos.
- Tuesday, 5: Mass at noon at the main altar of the Vatican Basilica in memory of cardinals and bishops who died this year.

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