"Pope's" Schedule: Consistory for cause of sainthood for Fatima shepherds
After presiding over all the events during Holy Week at the
Vatican, Pope Francis will not be taking any time off to relax during Easter Week.
Starting at 12 on Easter Monday, the pope will lead the Regina Coeli prayer from the Apostolic Palace in St. Peter's Square. He will then continue this prayer each Sunday until Pentecost.
On Wednesday, he will continue his catechesis on hope for all the pilgrims visiting Rome during the General Audience at 10 a.m.
At
the same time on Thursday morning, Pope Francis has called for a
consistory of cardinals to give approval for the cause of canonization
for the two shepherds from Fatima,
Jacinta and Francisco. This consistory could also review future dates
for 30 Brazilian martyrs, a Spanish priest and an Italian Capuchin
priest.
At 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Pope
Francis will meet with Oscar Camps, the Founder of Proactiva Open Arms.
They are volunteers who are working to rescue refugees
who are fleeing from the coast of Lesbos in the Mediterranean. It will
not be the first time the pope will meet with him. In May 2016, Camps
brought the Holy Father a life jacket of a girl they were unable to
rescue.
That evening at 5 p.m., he will preside
at the Liturgy of the Word with the Community of Sant'Egidio at the
Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island in Rome. It will be in
memory of the "New Martyrs” from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
He will close his week by praying the Regina Coeli in St. Peter's Square, in the same way as he started the week on Monday.
