Vatican City, 8 May 2015 (VIS) – The
Holy See Press Office today published the programme of the Holy
Father's apostolic trip to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay (5 to 13
July 2015).
The Pope will leave Rome's Fiumicino
airport at 9 a.m. on Sunday 5 July and will arrive at the Mariscal
Sucre airport in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, at 3 p.m. local time,
where the welcome ceremony will be held. On Monday 6 he will proceed
to Guayaquil to celebrate Mass in the shrine of Divine Mercy, after
which he will lunch at the Colegio Javier with the Jesuit community.
Upon return to Quito, he will pay a courtesy visit to the Ecuadorian
president in the presidential palace and will subsequently visit the
Cathedral. In the morning of Tuesday 7 July he will meet with the
bishops of Ecuador in the Congress Centre of the Bicentenary park,
where he will celebrate Mass. In the afternoon he will encounter
representatives of schools and universities in the Pontifical
University of Ecuador, and later, representatives of civil society in
the Church of San Francisco, after which he will pay a private visit
to the “Iglesia de la Compania”. On Wednesday 8, he will first
visit the Rest Home of the Missionaries of Charity, and will then
meet with clergy, men and women religious and seminarians at the
national Marian shrine, El Quinche. On the same day he will depart by
air for Bolivia.
Upon arrival at the airport of El Alto
in La Paz, he will give an address and, following the welcome
ceremony, will transfer to the Government Palace to pay a courtesy
visit to the president. From there, he will go to the Cathedral of La
Paz, where he will meet with the civil authorities, after which he
will travel by air to Santa Cruz de la Sierra where he will spend the
night. On Thursday 9 he will celebrate Mass in the the square of
Cristo Redentor, and will meet with men and women religious in the
Don Bosco school, after which he will participate in the World
Meeting of Popular Movements in the Expo trade fair centre. On Friday
10 he will visit the Santa Cruz-Palmasola re-education centre and, in
the same morning, will meet with the bishops of Bolivia in the parish
church of Santa Cruz. The Pope will leave Bolivia from the Viru Viru
airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, destined for Paraguay; his
aircraft is expected to land at around 3 p.m. local time in the
Silvio Pettirossi airport of Asuncion.
After arriving in Paraguay, the Pope
will pay a courtesy visit to the president in the Palacio de Lopez,
where he will also meet with the authorities and the diplomatic
corps. On Saturday 11 July, he will visit the “Ninos de Acosta Nu”
general paediatric hospital and will subsequently officiate at Mass
in the square of the Marian sanctuary of Caacupe. In the afternoon he
will meet with representatives of civil society in the Leon Condou
stadium of the San Jose school. The day will conclude with the
celebration of vespers with the bishops, priests, deacons, men and
women religious, seminarians and Catholic movements in the
metropolitan cathedral of Our Lady of Asuncion. Sunday 12 will begin
with a visit to the people of Banado Norte in the Chapel of San Juan
Batista, and Mass in the Nu Guazu field. The Holy Father will meet
the bishops of Paraguay in the Cultural Centre of the apostolic
nunciature, where they will then dine. His last engagement will be a
meeting with young people at the Costanera riverside area. At 7 p.m.
local time Francis will depart by air for Rome, where he is expected
to arrive on Monday 13 July at around 1.45 p.m.
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