PAPAL CALENDAR FOR JANUARY 2019 – DECEMBER 2019
Bishops’ Office for United States Visitors to the Vatican Via dell’Umiltà, 30 – 00187 Rome Tel (calling from USA): 011.39.06.6900.1821 FAX (faxing from USA): 011.39.06.679.1448 e-mail: [email protected]
(edited December 2, 2018)
Please note that this calendar is not official, but created by this office.
2019
JANUARY 2019
January 1 World Day of Peace
Papal Mass on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica – (Tickets are required and are limited.)
Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
January 2 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
January 6 Papal Mass on the Solemnity of the Epiphany at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica (Tickets are required.)
Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
January 9 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
January 13 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
January 16 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
January 20 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
January 23-27 Papal visit to Panama for World Youth Day
January 23 NO PAPAL AUDIENCE
January 27 NO PAPAL ANGELUS
January 30 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
FEBRUARY 2019
February 2 Papal Mass for Religious at 5:30 p.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica (Tickets are required.)
February 3 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
February 6 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
February 10 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
February 13 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
February 17 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
February 20 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
February 24 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
February 27 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
MARCH 2019
March 3 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
March 6 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
March 6 Ash Wednesday Papal Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina at 5:30 p.m. (Tickets must be requested directly from the Prefecture of the Papal Household.)
March 10 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
March 13 NO PAPAL AUDIENCE (cancelled for Holy Father’s Lenten Retreat)
March 17 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
March 20 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
March 24 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
March 27 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
March 31 NO PAPAL ANGELUS
APRIL 2019
April 3 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
April 7 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
April 10 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
April 14 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
April 14 Palm Sunday Papal Mass at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
April 17 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
April 18 CHRISM MASS at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica
April 19 GOOD FRIDAY CELEBRATION OF THE PASSION OF OUR LORD at 5:00 p.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica
Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum at 9:15 p.m. (No tickets required.)
April 20 EASTER VIGIL PAPAL MASS at 8:30 p.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica
April 21 EASTER SUNDAY PAPAL MASS at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
Urbi et Orbi blessing at 12 Noon in St. Peter’s Square (No tickets required.)
April 22 Pasquetta and Regina Caeli/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
April 24 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
April 28 Regina Caeli/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
MAY 2019
May 1 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
Regina Caeli/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
May 5 NO REGINA CAELI
May 8 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
May 12 Regina Caeli/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
May 15 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
May 19 Regina Caeli/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
May 22 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
May 26 Regina Caeli/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
May 29 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
JUNE 2019
June 2 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
June 5 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
June 9 Papal Mass on the occasion of Solemnity of Pentecost at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica—Tickets are required and limited
Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
June 12 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
June 16 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
June 19 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
June 23 Papal Mass for Solemnity of Corpus Christi at Saint Monica Church Piazza in Ostia at 6:00 p.m., followed by a Eucharistic Procession to the Church of Nostra Signora di Bonaria. No tickets are necessary to participate in the Eucharistic Procession.
Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
June 26 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
June 29 Papal Mass on the occasion of the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul in the morning in St. Peter’s Basilica (Tickets are necessary and limited.)
Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
June 30 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
JULY 2019
*All Wednesday Papal audiences are suspended during the month of July.
July 7 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
July 14 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
July 21 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
July 28 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
AUGUST 2019
August 4 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
August 7 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square – No tickets required
August 11 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
August 14 NO PAPAL AUDIENCE
August 15 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
August 18 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required August 21 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square – No tickets required
August 25 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon
August 28 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square August 12 Noon – No tickets required
SEPTEMBER 2019
September 1 Angelus/Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
September 4 NO PAPAL AUDIENCE
September 8 NO PAPAL ANGELUS
September 11 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
September 15 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
September 18 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
September 22 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon
September 25 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
September 29 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
OCTOBER 2019
October 2 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
October 6 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
October 9 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
October 13 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
October 16 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
October 20 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
October 23 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
October 27 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
October 30 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
NOVEMBER 2019
November 1 Solemnity of All Saints - Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
November 2 Papal Mass for Cardinals and Bishops Who Died During the Year at 11:30 a.m. in St Peter’s Basilica - No tickets required.
November 3 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
November 6 NO PAPAL AUDIENCE
November 10 NO PAPAL ANGELUS
November 13 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
November 17 Papal Mass for the World Day of the Poor at 10:00 a.m. in St Peter’s Basilica (Tickets are necessary).
Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
November 20 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
November 24 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
November 27 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
DECEMBER 2019
December 1 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
December 4 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
December 8 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception - Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
Laying of the Wreath in Piazza di Spagna at 4:00 p.m. – No tickets are required
December 11 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
December 12 Papal Mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe at 6:00 p.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica in the evening—Tickets are necessary
December 15 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
December 18 Papal Audience at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square
December 22 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
December 24 Papal Mass for the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord at 9:30 p.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica (Tickets are necessary and limited.)
December 25 Urbi et Orbi blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon (No tickets are necessary to attend.)
NO PAPAL AUDIENCE
December 26 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
December 29 Angelus /Papal Blessing in St. Peter’s Square at 12 Noon – No tickets required
December 31 First Vespers of the Solemnity of the Mother of God and Te Deum at 5:00 p.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica (Tickets are necessary and limited.)