Vatican City, 27 March 2014 (VIS) –
Today the programme of the Holy Father's pilgrimage to the Holy Land
was published. The trip, which will take place from 24 to 26 May,
will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope
Paul VI and the Patriarch Athenagoras in Jerusalem.
The Pope will depart from Rome's
Fiumicino airport at 8.15 a.m. and is schedule to arrive in Amman,
Jordan at 1.15 p.m. Following the welcome ceremony at Queen Alia
International Airport, he will proceed to the al-Husseini Royal
Palace in Amman, where he will be received by King Abdullah II and
Queen Rania, and will speak before the authorities of the kingdom of
Jordan. At 4.00 p.m. Mass will be celebrated at the International
Stadium in Amman, and later in the same afternoon he will meet with
refugees and young disabled people in the Latin Church.
On Sunday, 25 May, the Pope will leave
Jordan by helicopter at 8.15 a.m., destined for Bethlehem. In the
presidential palace, after a courtesy visit to the president of the
State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, he will address the Palestinian
authorities. At 11 a.m. he will celebrate Mass and pray the Angelus
in Manger Square in Bethlehem. The Holy Father will lunch with a
number of Palestinian families in the Franciscan convent of Casa Nova
and at 3 p.m. he will make a private visit to the Grotto of the
Nativity. He will then greet the children in the refugee camps of
Deheisheh, Aida and Beit Jibrin and, at 3.45 p.m., will leave the
State of Palestine to travel by helicopter to the Ben Gurion
International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, where his arrival is
scheduled for 4.30 p.m. Following the welcome ceremony he will
proceed, again by helicopter, to Jerusalem, where at 6.15 p.m. he
will meet privately with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of
Constantinople at the apostolic delegation in Jerusalem, for the
signing of a joint declaration. At 7 p.m. in the Basilica of the Holy
Sepulchre an ecumenical meeting will take place, to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and
Patriarch Athenagoras, after which Pope Francis will dine with the
patriarchs, bishops and the papal suite at the Latin Patriarchate in
Jerusalem.
On Monday, 26 May at 8.15 a.m. the Holy
Father will visit the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in the building of the
Great Council on the Esplanade of the Mosques, and will give an
address. He will subsequently visit the Western Wall, after which he
will lay a wreath at Mount Herzl. At 10 a.m. he will visit the Yad
Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, where he will speak, and at 10.45., he
will make a courtesy visit to the two Chief Rabbis at the Heichal
Shlomo Centre, next to the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem. At 11.45 he
will proceed to the presidential palace where he will be received by
the president of the State of Israel, Simon Peres. At 1 p.m., in the
Notre Dame Centre, he will hold a private audience with the prime
minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. At 3.30 p.m. he will meet
privately with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople,
Bartholomew 1, near the Viri Galileai Orthodox Church on the Mount of
Olives. At 4 p.m., in the Church of Gethsemane at the foot of the
Mount of Olives, he will address priests, men and women religious and
seminarians. At 5.20 p.m. he will celebrate Mass with the Ordinaries
of the Holy Land and the Papal suite in the room of the Cenacle in
Jerusalem. At 7.30 p.m. he will transfer by helicopter from the Mount
Scopus heliport to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv,
where he will bid farewell to the State of Israel. The papal
aeroplane will depart at 8.15 p.m. for Rome's Ciampino airport, where
it is scheduled to land at approximately 11 p.m.
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