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December 18 2009

Press Release: Pope Benedict XVI visits the Soup-Kitchen of the Community of Sant’Egidio for the Feast of the Holy Family

 
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Sunday December 27th 2009
Feast of the Holy Family
 
Pope Benedict XVI visits the Community of Sant’Egidio
Lunch with the poor at the Soup-Kitchen in Via Dandolo 10
  12.30 pm
(After the Angelus)
 
Contact: Press Office [email protected]
 
 
 

 

On the occasion of Christmas, the Community of Sant'Egidio in Rome and the world celebrates the feast with the poor.

Some events in Rome:

 
On December 24 evening, at 20.00:
Mobile meal at the stations and places where the homless sleep.
The dinner will have 12 routes and will reach 60 points in the city of Rome.

Contact: Augusto D'Angelo, e-mail:
[email protected];
 
On Christmas Day, December 25:
Christmas lunch at the Basilica of St. Maria in Trastevere and in 38 other places.
 A
total of 10,000 people will be involved.
Contacts:
Paolo Ciani, Francesco Dante, Rinaldo Piazzoni. Alberto Quattrucci.
Press Office: [email protected];
 
Saturday, December 26:
The Community of Sant'Egidio and the Direction of Regina Coeli Prison organize a Christmas lunch with the prisoners 51 years after the historic visit of Pope John XXIII.
Contact: Paolo Ciani, Francesco Dante
Press Office: [email protected]

  

On Christmas Day, Friday, December 25th and Sunday, December 27th the Mass in the Basilica of SantaMaria in Trastevere will be broadcast live on RAI  at 11.00am.


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