Holy Trinity Parishioners to Welcome Pope Benedict XVI

Holy Trinity Parishioners to Welcome Pope Benedict XVI

 

Holy Trinity Catholic Church parishioners will be among the thousands of area Catholics who will be welcoming Pope Benedict XVI this week and attending the papal mass to be celebrated at the Nationals Baseball Stadium in Washington, DC this Thursday.  Pope Benedict XVI’s visit gives him the opportunity to reach out to the 70 million Catholics in the United States.  The pope’s itinerary in Washington, DC will include meeting President and Mrs. Bush, local dignitaries of the church and apostolic nuncio; a prayer service with Buddhists, Muslims, Hindi, Jews and representatives of other religions at the John Paul II Cultural Center.

 

Pope Bendedict XVI will address the United Nations in New York City on Friday and will also participate in a prayer service at St. Joseph’s Church with leaders from non-Catholic Christian communities.  The Holy Father will celebrate mass on Saturday, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, for priests and members of religious orders and at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, which is the 200^th anniversary of the designation of the Baltimore Archdiocese, as well as the birth of four other archdioceses – Boston, New York, Louisville and Philadelphia.  The pope will visit Ground Zero prior to mass on Sunday, April 20^th.[1]

 

Date Published: 2008-04-16 03:24:20

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