NEWS

“Ad Limina”  Visit to  the Tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul  by the CEPAC Bishops  (Conference Episcopal of the Pacific). Indeed, I am very happy to meet his Grace Archbishop Charles D. Balvo, Apostolic Nuncio; as well as many Archbishops; Bishops, Superior Sui Juris and Apostolic Administrators of the CEPAC area.

10 (Saturday): Arrival at Domus Sanctae Marthae

11 (Sunday):  10 AM: Briefing and Preliminary Meeting of CEPAC

 12 (Monday):  7:15 AM Holy Mass at the Tomb of St. Peter (CEPAC & N.Z. Bishops)

10:00 AM Visit to the Congregation for Institutes for Consecrated Life & Societies of Apostolic Life  (Vatican: Piazza Pio XII, 3)

15:30 PM  Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization (Via della Conciliazione, 5)

13 (Tuesday)  8:00 AM  Holy Mass in the chapel of the tomb of St. John Chrysostom.

9:30 AM  Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”  (Via della Conciliazione, 5)              

3:00 PM  Pontifical Council for the Family (Trastevere: Piazza di San Callisto 16)

3:00 PM.  Meeting CEPAC. Venue: Domus Sanctae Marthae        

   14 (Wed.)      10:00 AM Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Piazza di Spagna, 48)

3:00 PM  Meeting CEPAC.  Venue: Domus Sanctae Marthae.

15 (Thurs.)    10:00 AM Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (Piazza della Cancelleria, 1)

12:00 AM Pontifical Council for the Laiti (Trastevere: Pizza San Callisto, 16)

17:00 PM Mass at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls.  (Followed by meal at home of “Opera della Chiesa”  of Mother Trinidad.

16 (Friday)     09:00 AM Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (Vatican: Piazza Pio XII, 10)

11:00 AM Audience with the Holy Father, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. He gave an envelop that contained special Rosaries and Christmas Remembrance Cards.

16:30 PM Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (Trastevere, Piazza  San Callisto ,16)      

17 (Saturday) 11:30 CEPAC & N.Z. Group Audience with the Holy Father.  He gave a special gift of Gold Pectoral Cross to all those present in the Audience.

18 (Sunday)    Final Group Mass at 9:00 AM.  At 10:00   Bishop Paul Mea, MSC (of Tarawa Diocese) and myself visited the MSC Sisters in Sutri.  We gladly met  Sr. General Mechtild and her  Council Members; and l And Iater visited also the Generalate of the Daughters of our Lady of the  Sacred Heart.  We were received warmly by Sr. General Mary Fyfe and her Gen. Council members.

19 (Monday)  After breakfast, at 10:00 AM  I left Domus Sanctae Marthae and proceeded to the MSC Generalate in Via Asmara.

20 (Tuesday) 6:00 AM.  Departed from Rome for Majuro, Marshall Islands. Via Lufthansa, United, and Continental Airlines.  Arriving Majuro on Dec. 22, 2011 at 9:45 AM.

Personally,  I consider this “Ad Limina” Visit the highest point in my life.  I will remain ever faithful to the Lord for having given me, very unworthy that I am, of  this great privilege which exceeds my life expectation.  Laus tibi, Domini.