Subject: VISnews 110621   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 116   
   ENGLISH   
   TUESDAY, 21 JUNE 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Pope to Visit Ancona for Close of Eucharistic Congress   
      
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   POPE TO VISIT ANCONA FOR CLOSE OF EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 21 JUN 2011 (VIS) - This morning in the Holy See Press Office   
   a press conference was held to present the twenty-fifth Italian Eucharistic   
   Congress, due to be held in the city of Ancona from 3 to 11 September on the   
   theme: "Lord, to whom shall we go? The Eucharist for daily life".   
      
     Participating in today's conference were Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli of   
   Ancona-Osimo; Vittorio Sozzi, head of the Cultural Project of the Italian   
   Episcopal Conference (CEI); Giovanni Morello, president of the academic   
   committee for exhibitions during the congress, and Fr. Ivan Maffeis, vice   
   director of the CEI national office for social communications.   
      
     Benedict XVI will make a pastoral visit to Ancona on 11 September, where   
   at 10 a.m. he is due to preside at a concelebration of the Eucharist at the   
   city's shipyard to mark the close of the congress. During the afternoon he   
   will meet with families and clergy in the basilica of San Cyriacus, then   
   address a group of young couples in the Piazza del Plebiscito before   
   returning to the Vatican.   
      
     Vittorio Sozzi explained how the congress has been divided into five   
   thematic areas: affections, fragility, work and rest, tradition,   
   citizenship. "The celebration of the National Eucharistic Congress", he   
   said, "may be seen as an important occasion for the public reaffirmation of   
   faith in the Eucharist, the Sacrament of salvation and communion".   
      
     The celebration of the twenty-fifth Italian Eucharistic Congress will also   
   involve a series of cultural events, including an exhibition entitled "At   
   the Table of The Lord: Masterpieces of European art from Raphael to   
   Tiepolo", which will be held at the city's Mole Vanvitelliana from 2   
   September 2011 to 8 January 2012.   
      
     The exhibition will include a series of Italian and European works from   
   the fifteenth century on. The theme is that of the Last Supper, as   
   interpreted by artists from two different perspectives: the institution of   
   the Eucharist and the communion of the Apostles. The event, which is being   
   organised by the Italian Ministry for Culture and the Vatican Museums, will   
   also include a section on liturgical vessels from the Marches, especially   
   gifts made by Popes over the course of the centuries to the various churches   
   in that region of Italy.   
      
     Another exhibition taking place within the ambit of the congress is   
   entitled "Signs of the Eucharist" and has been organised with contributions   
   from all dioceses in the Marches. It is based on the premise that the church   
   is first and foremost a place for celebrating Mass, the liturgy of which is   
   structured around the main Sacrament of the Eucharist. The practice of this   
   liturgical rite requires a certain number of objects associated with the   
   altar of the Eucharist, and the exhibition seeks to illustrate and describe   
   these objects, which are an expression of popular religiosity, as well as of   
   the splendour of the Church and her relationship with the local area.   
      
     A third cultural initiative taking place in the context of the Italian   
   Eucharistic Congress has as its title: "I must stay at your house today: The   
   Eucharist, the grace of an unexpected encounter". It is an itinerant   
   exhibition which, starting from the Gospel episode of Jesus' meeting with   
   Zaccheus, illustrates the human need for the Eucharist.   
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