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May
7, 2007
VOL.
45, NO. 9Oakland,
CA
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| A souvenir with a picture of Pope Benedict XVI is
displayed in a store in Aparecida, Brazil. Pope Benedict will visit
the famous Marian shrine when he travels to the country on May 9. CNS PHOTO/PAULO WHITAKER/REUTERS |
The Eternal
Word Television Network (EWTN) will offer extensive coverage of Pope Benedict
XVI’s May 9-13 visit to Brazil.
Programming will begin with a live telecast of the arrival of the Holy
Father and Brazil’s welcoming ceremonies on May 9 at 12:30 p.m.
and repeated at 6 p.m.
Coverage resumes on May 10 at 6:30 a.m. when the pope meets with the president
of Brazil; the encore presentation is scheduled for midnight. The pontiff’s
three-hour meeting with young people will air at 1:30 p.m. and be repeated
at 6 p.m.
On May 11, the pope will preside at a Mass and canonization ceremony from
Campo de Marte, with the broadcast at 4:30 a.m. and encore at 6 p.m.
The pope’s meeting with the bishops of Brazil will air at 11:30
a.m. and repeat at 11 p.m. The Pope’s arrival in Aparecida, a town
in Sao Paulo famous for its Marian shrine, will be shown at 3 p.m., and
repeated at 3 a.m.
Pope Benedict’s visit to Fazenda da Esperanca (“Farms of Hope”)
will air live on May 12 at 5:30 a.m., the encore at 10 a.m. At 1:30 p.m.
the Holy Father will visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida where,
among other things, he will recite the Rosary. The encore will air at
6:30 p.m.
The pope’s visit to Brazil will end on May 13. He will preside at
the inaugurating Mass of the fifth General Conference of the Bishops of
Latin America and the Caribbean. The telecast begins at 5 a.m. and encore
at 9 p.m.
Later, Pope Benedict will attend the opening working session of the bishops’
conference and then depart for Rome. Coverage will begin at 11:30 a.m.
No encore is scheduled.
EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast Digital channel 229; DISH Satellite
channel 261; and DirecTV channel 422; in Alameda on Comcast channel 30
and Alameda Power channel 26. Visit www.ewtn.comfor
any updates.
