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POPE-HOLYWEEK Mar-11-2008 (240 words) xxxi
Pope designates Holy Thursday collection for Cuban orphanage
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has decided the collection taken up at his Holy Thursday evening Mass will be sent to an orphanage in Cuba where members of the Daughters of Charity care for the handicapped.
Each year the pope chooses where to send the collection taken up during the Mass of the Lord's Supper at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome.
Pope Benedict's decision to send the March 20 collection to La Edad de Oro orphanage in Havana was announced by the Vatican March 11.
Each year the pope also designates someone to write the meditations read during his Good Friday celebration of the Way of the Cross in Rome's Colosseum.
The meditations for the March 21 service were written by Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong, Vatican Radio reported.
The Vatican also confirmed the pope would celebrate the usual slate of Holy Week and Easter liturgies: Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square March 16; the morning chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica March 20, followed by the evening Mass at St. John Lateran; the afternoon liturgy of the Lord's Passion March 21 in St. Peter's Basilica, followed by the nighttime Way of the Cross; the Easter Vigil March 22 in St. Peter's Basilica; and the Easter morning Mass March 23 in St. Peter's Square.
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