BIg doings in Rome over the next few days, leading up to Friday, the solemnities of Sts. Peter and Paul and the bestowing of the pallium on Sunday.

First, the schedule, via PRF:

June 26
17:30 Cardinal Bertone celebrates Mass and Vespers

June 27
18:00 Vespers, celebrated with representatives
of other Christian confessions in Rome
They will end by proclaiming together the
great Pauline hymn (1 Cor 13) at the Tomb of St. Paul

June 28
17:30 Pope Benedict XV presides at Vespers.
He will proclaim the Year of St. Paul
on the occasion of the 2000th anniversary
of the Apostle’s birth (between 6-10 AD)

June 29
17:30 Vespers and Mass presided by
Fr. Edmund Power, OSB, abbot of the Benedictine Abbey in the Basilica, and
Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Arch-Priest of the Basilica.
20:00 Procession with ‘the Chain of St. Paul’

NB:
June 29
9:00 The Holy Father presides at concelebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica
at which he will confer the Pallium on 51 Metropolitan Archbishops
named
in the past year.

The list of archbishops:

1. Antonio Eguren Anselmi of Piura, Peru
2. Robert Le Gall O.S.B., of Toulouse, France
3. Dominic Lumon of Imphal, India
4. Douglas Young S.V.D., of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
5. Barthelemy Djabla of Gagnoa, Ivory Coast
6. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga of Kampala, Uganda
7. Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, Italy
8. Paul-Simeon Ahouanan Djro O.F.M., of Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire
9. Oswald Gracias of Bombay, India
10. Javier Augusto del Rio Alba of Arequipa, Peru
11. Edward Ozorowski of Bialystok, Poland
12. Romulo Geolina Valles of Zamboanga, Philippines
13. Calogero La Piana S.D.B., of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy
14. Antonio Muniz Fernandes O. Carm., of Maceio, Brazil
15. Rafael Romo Munoz of Tijuana, Mexico
16. Jose Guadalupe Martin Rabago of Leon, Mexico
17. Pedro Aranda Diaz-Munoz of Tulancingo, Mexico
18. Rogelio Cabrera Lopez of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico
19. Evariste Ngoyagoye of Bujumbura, Burundi
20. Filipe Neri Antonio Sebastiao do Rosario Ferrao of Goa and Damao, India
21. Paul R. Ruzoka of Tabora, Tanzania
22. Gerard Pettipas C.Ss.R., of Grouard-McLennan, Canada
23. Paul Cremona O.P., of Malta, Malta
24. Marcel Madila Basanguka of Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo
25. Thomas Christopher Collins of Toronto, Canada
26. Paolo Romeo of Palermo, Italy
27. Ricardo Ezzati Andrello S.D.B., of Concepcion, Chile
28. Orlando Antonio Corrales Garcia of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
29. Jose Alberto Moura C.S.S., of Montes Claros, Brazil.
30. Dionisio Guillermo Garcia Ibanez of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
31. Albert D’Souza of Agra, India
32. Kazimierz Nycz of Warsaw, Poland
33. Csaba Ternyak of Eger, Hungary
34. Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo, Brazil
35. Richard William Smith of Edmonton, Canada
36. Pierre d’Ornellas of Rennes, France
37. Reinaldo Del Prette Lissot of Valencia en Venezuela, Venezuela
38. Hipolito Reyes Larios of Jalapa, Mexico
39. Geraldo Lyrio Rocha of Mariana, Brazil
40. Oscar Julio Vian Morales S.D.B., of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango- Tontonicapan, Guatemala
41. Terrence Thomas Prendergast S.J., of Ottawa, Canada
42. Joao Bosco Oliver de Faria of Diamantina, Brazil
43. Brendan Michael O’Brien of Kingston, Canada
44. Buti Joseph Tlhagale O.M.I. of Johannesburg, South Africa
45. Joseph Edward Kurtz of Louisville, US
46. Leo Cornelio S.V.D., of Bhopal, India

The 5 archbishops who will receive the pallium in their own archdioceses are:

1. Denis Komivi Amuzu-Dzakpah of Lome, Togo
2. Denis Kiwanuka Lote of Tororo, Uganda
3. Telesphore George Mpundu of Lusaka, Zambia
4. Vincentius Sensi Potokota of Ende, Indonesia
5. John Choi Young-su of Daegu, Korea

What’s a pallium? From the Catholic Encyclopedia. From Zenit:

The pallium, worn by the Pope and archbishops, symbolizes the lost sheep that is found again, carried on the shoulders of the Good Shepherd, and the Lamb crucified for the salvation of humanity. It also symbolizes, in part, the Pope’s concession of authority and communion to heads of major local Churches.

From CWNews:

The vestment is made from wool that is shorn from lambs that are blessed by the Pope, in another ancient Roman tradition, on the feast of St. Agnes, January 21. These vestments are stored in the Vatican basilica until the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, when the new metropolitan archbishops travel to Rome to receive them, in a ceremony that accents the communion between these prelates and the Holy See.