PROGRAM FOR ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES

VATICAN CITY, FEB 26, 2003 (VIS) - A prayer service, procession and Eucharistic liturgy will mark the start of Lent next week with Pope John Paul taking part in the Ash Wedsnday services on March 5.

At 5 p.m. there will be a prayer service in the church of St. Anselm on the Aventine Hill, and then a penitential procession to the basilica of St. Sabina in which cardinals, archbishops, bishops, the Benedictine monks of St. Anselm's and the Dominican Fathers of St. Sabina and a number of faithful will take part.
The Holy Father will preside at the Liturgy of the Word in St. Sabina's Basilica, deliver a homily and officiate at the rite of the blessing and imposition of ashes. At the end of Mass he will impart the apostolic blessing. Cardinal Jozef Tomko will celebrate the Eucharistic Liturgy.

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