Friday, 12 September 2008

ITALY

Fiumicino (Rome)

• 9.00 Departure by plane from the Leonardo da Vinci International Airport for the Airport of Orly (Paris)

FRANCE

Paris

• 11.10 Arrival at the Airport of Orly.
• 11.15 Official welcome at the Airport of Orly
• 12.25 Welcoming ceremony at the Elysée Palace
• 12.30 Courtesy visit to the President of the Republic at the Elysée Palace
• 13.00 Meeting with authorities of State at the Elysée Palace. Address of the Holy Father
• 17.00 Short meeting with representatives of the Jewish Community at the Apostolic Nunciature of Paris
• 17.30 Meeting with representatives from the world of culture at the Collège des Bernardins. Address of the Holy Father
• 19.15 Celebration of Vespers with priests, religious, seminarians and deacons in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Address of the Holy Father
• 20.30 Greeting to young people gathered in the square in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Greeting of the Holy Father

Saturday, 13 September2008

• 9.10 Short visit to the Institut de France
• 10.00 Eucharistic Celebration on the Esplanade des Invalides. Homily of the Holy Father
• 12.30 Luncheon with the Bishops of Île de France and the Papal Entourage in the Apostolic Nunciature of Paris
• 15.50 Farewell from the Apostolic Nunciature of Paris
• 16.30 Departure by plane from the Airport of Orly for the Airport of Tarbes-Lourdes

• 17.45 Arrival at the Airport of Tarbes-Lourdes Pyrénées
• 18.00 Departure by helicopter from the Airport of Tarbes-Lourdes Pyrénées for the Antoine Béguère Stadium of Lourdes
• 18.20 Arrival at the Antoine Béguère Stadium in Lourdes
• 18.30 Jubilee Way: Visit to the Church of the Sacred Heart and visit to the Cachot at Lourdes
• 19.15 Visit to the Grotto of the Apparitions at Lourdes
• 21.30 Conclusion of the Marian procession "aux flambeaux" in the Rosary Square in the Complex of the Lourdes' Shrines

Sunday, 14 September 2008

• 10.00 Holy Mass for the 150th anniversary of the Apparitions in the Prairie. Homily of the Holy Father
  Recitation of the Angelus Domini in the Prairie. Address of the Holy Father
• 12.45 Luncheon with the Bishops of the Midi-Pyrénées region and with the Cardinals and Bishops of the Papal Entourage at St. Joseph's Hermitage
  
• 17.15 Meeting with French Bishops in the Hemicycle of Saint Bernadette's Church. Address of the Holy Father
• 18.30 Conclusion of the Eucharistic Procession in the Prairie of Lourdes.     Address of the Holy Father

Monday, 15 September 2008

• Farewell from Saint Joseph's Hermitage     
• 8.45 Visit to the Oratorie de l’hôpital     
• 9.30 Holy Mass for the sick at the Basilica of Notre-Dame du Rosaire. Homily of the Holy Father
• 12.10 Departure by helicopter from the Antoine Béguère Stadium of Lourdes for the Airport of Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées     
• 12.30 Arrival at the Airport of Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées     
• Farewell ceremony at the Airport of Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées. Address of the Holy Father
• 13.00 Departure by plane from the Airport of Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées for the Airport of Ciampino (Rome)