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Christus Rex Information ServiceVATICAN CITY, JUL 2, 1996 (VIS) - In the context of the commemorative celebrations for the 4th centenary of the Union of Brest, John Paul II will preside on Saturday, July 6 at a "Moleben" to the Blessed Virgin and on Sunday, July 7 at a Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine-Ukrainian rite.
The celebration of the Moleben - a prayer dedicated to a specific saint, to Mary or to Christ - will take place at 6 p.m. in the Gregorian Chapel of the Vatican basilica before the relics of St. Josaphat. Bishops, presbyters and faithful of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church will participate. The Pope previously celebrated a Moleben on June 2, 1991 during his pastoral visit to Poland and on July 2, 1995 during his trip to the Slovak Republic.
On July 7 at 9 a.m. the Holy Father will preside at the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom according to the Byzantine-Ukrainian rite with the bishops and presbyters of that rite.
"The celebration," states a release from the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff, "is one of gratitude to God for the re- establishment of the full communion of the Ukrainian and Belarussian Churches with the Roman Apostolic See, which took place in Brest in 1596, and is an invitation to intensify commitment to and prayer for the unity of all Christians."
VATICAN CITY, JUL 2, 1996 (VIS) - Pope John Paul is scheduled to depart July 10 for a vacation in Lorenzago di Cadore in the Dolomites of the northeastern Veneto region of Italy, where he will remain until the afternoon of July 23. He previously vacationed in Lorenzago in 1987, 1988, 1992 and 1993.
The Holy Father will hold the usual weekly general audience on July 10 and will leave Vatican City that same afternoon. His time in Lorenzago di Cadore, a village of 600 people, will be, as it has been in past years, a period of rest, prayer, study and long walks in the nearby mountains and forests. He will stay in a house which is the property of the bishop of Treviso, built in the 1950s by the then-bishop so he could be near his seminarians who were vacationing in the area.
When he returns on July 23, the pope will go to Castelgandolfo but will come in to Rome the following day for the general audience.
VATICAN CITY, JUL 2, 1996 (VIS) - Friday, July 5, at 11:30 a.m. in the Holy See Press Office, there will be a press conference for the presentation of the celebrations scheduled this weekend for the 4th Centenary of the Union of Brest.
The following will participate in the presentation: Archbishop Stephen Sulyk of Philadelphia of the Ukrainians, metropolitan of the Catholic Ukrainians in the United States; Exarch Lubomyr Husar of the archiepiscopal exarchate of Kyiv-Vyshorod, Ukraine; Fr. Atanasio Pekar, O.S.B.M., member of the curial generalate of the Basilian Fathers in Rome, and editor of the magazine "Analecta Ordinis S. Basilii Magni"; Ivan Paslavskyj of Leopoli, Ukraine.
VATICAN CITY, JUL 2, 1996 (VIS) - The Holy Father received in separate audiences this morning:
- Cardinal William Wakefield Baum, penitentiary major.
- Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevicius of Kaunas, Lithuania.
- Four prelates of the Myanmar Catholic Bishops' Conference on "ad limina"
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VATICAN CITY, JUL 2, 1996 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Designated Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka, president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, as his special envoy to the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the martyrdom of 26 Japanese saints, to take place in Nagasaki, Japan, on February 5, 1997.
- Nominated Msgr. Aldo Cavalli as apostolic delegate in Angola and apostolic nuncio in Sao Tome e Principe, elevating him at the same time to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Lecco, Italy, in 1946, was ordained a priest in 1971 and entered the Holy See's diplomatic service in 1979. He has served at the pontifical representation in Burundi and in the Secretariat of State. Since 1992 he has been nunciature counselor.
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