I'm impressed too, Mary.


Advent Vespers Service With Pope Benedict XVI Will Air at CatholicTV.com

Catholic Online
11/25/2009 - PST

WATERTOWN, MA (November 25, 2009) - On Sunday, November 29th, CatholicTV.com will air the Vespers service with Pope Benedict XVI from St. Peter’s Basilica. November 29th is the first Sunday of Advent. The Vespers service will air simultaneously on CatholicTV where available.

The Vespers service will air at noon (EST) and again at 8PM. CatholicTV will air additional special events with Pope Benedict XVI from the Vatican during the Advent and Christmas season.

CatholicTV is a nationally-broadcasted television network headquartered near Boston. CatholicTV streams its broadcast simultaneously, 24 hours a day at www.CatholicTV.com

These special events will include the following (broadcast times in parentheses): The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8 (noon and 8PM), Christmas Eve Mass (11PM), and New Year’s Eve Vespers (noon and 8PM)

CatholicTV regularly airs Papal events. Details on CatholicTV Papal Programming as well as archived videos can be viewed at www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=57

All online shows at CatholicTV.com are viewable free of charge.

About CatholicTV:
CatholicTV provides family-friendly, religious, news, and educational programming 24 hours daily. Founded over 50 years ago, CatholicTV is available in selected areas on cable in the United States and Canada, via Sky Angel and online via a live stream anytime, everywhere at the station's web site www.CatholicTV.com. Father Robert Reed, a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, is the Director of CatholicTV. Click here to paste this into your browser to find out how to watch CatholicTV where you live: www.CatholicTV.org/schedule/where-to-watch.aspx

I thought this thread would be a good idea, because sometimes I come close to missing - yes, missing! - Papa live on EWTN. This is because not all the events from the Vatican are included in the monthly schedule I receive and we have to rely on the Vatican website.

All I did was to click on Nuova to the left of Rispondi and it allowed me to start a new thread. I'm sure this is, or was, open to all members.

Luff to all,
Mary

Sistine Chapel Concert In Honor of Pope Will Air at CatholicTV.com and CatholicTV

Catholic Online

WATERTOWN, MA (November 27, 2009) - On Sunday, December 6th, CatholicTV will air a concert in honor of his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This concert is offered to the Pope by the President of Germany.

The concert will take place in the Sistine Chapel. It will be viewable simultaneously at CatholicTV.com and on CatholicTV on December 6th at noon Eastern and will rebroadcast at 8PM.

CatholicTV is a nationally-broadcasted television network headquartered near Boston. CatholicTV streams its broadcast simultaneously, 24 hours a day at www.CatholicTV.com

CatholicTV will air additional special events with Pope Benedict XVI from the Vatican during the Advent and Christmas season.

Some of the special events will include the following (broadcast times in parentheses): The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8 (noon and 8PM), Christmas Eve Mass (11PM), and New Year’s Eve Vespers (noon and 8PM).

CatholicTV regularly airs Papal and Vatican events. Details on CatholicTV Papal Programming as well as archived videos can be viewed at www.CatholicTV.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=57

All online shows at CatholicTV.com are viewable free of charge.

About CatholicTV:
CatholicTV provides family-friendly, religious, news, and educational programming 24 hours daily. Founded over 50 years ago, CatholicTV is available in selected areas on cable in the United States and Canada, via Sky Angel and online via a live stream anytime, everywhere at the station's web site www.CatholicTV.com. Father Robert Reed, a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, is the Director of CatholicTV. Click here to paste this into your browser to find out how to watch CatholicTV where you live: www.CatholicTV.com/schedule/where-to-watch.aspx

@benefan:Do you know what time - Rome time - this concert will take place? EWTN viewers will need to know, so that we can switch on an hour before that time. There's an outside chance it will be shown on EWTN. Not one of the concerts [and there have been several, haven't there!] has been shown on EWTN, which is such a shame. I don't think they can afford to "buy" everything from CTV, as the cost is tremendous.

Thank you for the information about other Catholic stations.

Just seen the First Vespers. Papa's cope looked rather heavy. I like the new staff, but I didn't dislike the Pius IX one.

Oops - just re-read your post above and you do give the time. That's Eastern Time plus five hours for London time. Thanks, benefan!!

maryjos, 26.11.2009 13:20:

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I thought this thread would be a good idea, because sometimes I come close to missing - yes, missing! - Papa live on EWTN. This is because not all the events from the Vatican are included in the monthly schedule I receive and we have to rely on the Vatican website.

All I did was to click on Nuova to the left of Rispondi and it allowed me to start a new thread. I'm sure this is, or was, open to all members.

Luff to all,
Mary

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yes, in former times it WAS open for all members, but now it's closed ! why ? if you try to create a new thread there is this message: Non hai i diritti per creare nuove Discussioni

Yes, I'm sure it was open to all. But if anyone wants to start a new thread you only have to ask me or benefan and we'll do it. Neither of us wants to wield power. Wir sind hier alle Freundinnen!!!!!!! Noi siamo qui tutte amice!!!!!! Nous sommes ici toutes amies!!!!!! We are all friends here!

This was, indeed, aired live by EWTN and was beautiful - lovely music. Papa looked superb in a sort of "old rose" coloured cope - I'm not very good on these colours. I don't like copes - full stop! But I know that's what he has to wear for Vespers. The cope seems to swamp him.

Haven't checked to see if there are any photos on the news pages, as I've been without my computer for nearly three days. Was just beginning to get withdrawal symptoms!

I didn't know beforehand or I would have posted about this. EWTN showed about fifteen minutes of the inauguration of the creche. The whole one and a half hours were shown on CTV and I was able to see all of it on my computer. Papa didn't attend this year. Did he last year? I can't remember. But.....his window was opened as the band played "Silent Night" and then the light went off in the room and Papa came to the window and placed a lighted candle in a glass bowl on his window sill. It was a memorable moment! That was not shown on EWTN so I couldn't record it.
There was quite a long liturgy of the Word and some lovely singing by small children wearing Santa hats, some dancing by young people and more singing of rather modern Christmas songs by another group of young people wearing long gowns and light blue scarves.
Unfortunately it was raining all the time, but no one seemed to mind!
Near the end the little children had yellow or white balloons and after the countdown from "dieci" to "uno" let them up into the sky with a "Buon Natale!".
Wish I had been there!!!!!


This photo appeared very quickly on AP.

December 31st: First Vespers - Te Deum from Saint Peter's at 18 hours Rome time, 17 hours GMT, 13 hours Eastern USA time.

January 1st: Holy Mass from Saint Peter's: 10 am Rome time, 9 am GMT.

Both of these promise to be beautiful liturgies.

Mass tomorrow morning from Saint Peter's at 9 am GMT, 10 am Rome, 4 am US Eastern. I'm sure there will be encores - so watch out for them, as many in the USA will find the time somewhat early!!!!!

EWTN will probably stay with CTV for the Angelus afterwards - so don't switch off!

Holy Mass in the Sistine Chapel with baptism of a number of infants by the Holy Father. 10 am Rome time; 9 am GMT; 4 am Eastern USA.


Don't forget to brush the snow off your satellite dish! Luckily mine isn't too high for this, but if yours is on a house and high up, well........

Father John Hogan, co-presenter of the series "The Forgotten Heritage: Europe and the Eucharist" on EWTN, meets Papa after a General Audience in October 2008. Father Hogan is the founder and father director of the Fraternity of Saint Genesius, which is dedicated to furthering knowledge of the Catholic Faith through the media. If you missed the series, which has one episode left, I'm sure it will be repeated.

Not EWTN but still....


CatholicTV Will Air Vespers Service With Pope on Feast of Conversion of St. Paul

Catholic Online

WATERTOWN, MA (January 21, 2010) - On Monday, January 25, CatholicTV will air the Celebration of Vespers presided over by Pope Benedict XVI from the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.

This Vespers service will air on CatholicTV cable outlets and on CatholicTV.com at 8PM and will be rebroadcast at noon the following day (all times Eastern).

This Vespers service takes place at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Each year the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches chooses a theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This year, 2010, the theme is based on the biblical verse of Luke 24:48: You Are Witnesses of These Things. Honoring the Week of Prayer takes place between the feasts of Saints Peter and Paul. The week gives Christians an annual opportunity to continue to work towards unity which is already shared in Christ. It is also a time to gather in praise of the Triune God and to deepen the understanding of the ecumenical movement.

During the same feast in 2009, the Pope spoke of conversion in his homily saying, “one recognizes that this new journey cannot come from oneself. It consists in letting oneself be conquered by Christ. As St Paul says: "I am racing to grasp the prize if possible, since I have been grasped by Christ [Jesus]" (Phil 3: 12). Conversion demands our "yes", my "racing"; ultimately it is not my action, but a gift in letting myself be formed by Christ.”

CatholicTV regularly airs Papal and Vatican events: More information can be found at www.CatholicTV.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=57

Information about where to watch CatholicTV is available at www.CatholicTV.com/schedule/where-to-watch.aspx.

CatholicTV is a nationally-broadcasted television network streaming a live feed 24 hours a day at CatholicTV.com. Heeding Pope Benedict XVI's call to greater utilize the power of television and new media, the CatholicTV Network features its cable TV station, Catholic web site, mobile apps and widget. Celebrate Mass online; pray The Rosary; enjoy programs on prayer, the saints, the Scriptures and the Catholic Church on America's Catholic Television Network.

EWTN To Feature Documentaries on
the Leper Priest and Genocide in Sudan

EWTN airs two fascinating documentaries this week along with a special Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonization of St. Damien of Molokai.

One might ask why Father Damien's congregation requested a Mass on Jan. 31, since this was not a significant date in the saint's life. It turns out that Jan. 31 is World Leprosy Day and the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary wants people to know that “leprosy is treatable, touchable and curable.”

The Mass will air at 2 p.m. ET from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and will be celebrated by the Most Rev. Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., with a homily by Rev. William Petrie from St. Damien's own congregation.

Most people know that this saint – who was canonized in October 2009 – was known as the “leper priest” because he ministered to those afflicted with this disease on the Hawaiian island of Molakai and that, as a result, he himself contracted and died of the disease..

I know this is taking place on Sunday afternoon, but I can't find out what time it is - not anywhere on the internet. I'm sure it will be shown live on EWTN and may be on the other stations that members can get - KTO etc. Keep your eyes open for it!

I don't know what form the service will take, but both the Lutheran pastor and the Holy Father will give sermons.

Oops - duplicated this post. Sorry!

PAPAL HOLY WEEK LITURGIES TO AIR ONLINE

VATICAN CITY, MARCH 28, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Holy Week and Easter celebrations presided over by Benedict XVI will be available online in a live video and audio stream.

The Web site Pope2You.net, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, is airing these videos on the Internet for participants worldwide.

Audio commentaries will be provided in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The texts from the celebrations will also be available for download.

The service is being operated and promoted by the Vatican Television Center, Vatican Radio, with the technical support of H2O News.

In addition to this service, the Pope2You site is offering a collection of electronic greeting cards with images of the Holy Father for the Easter holidays.

The site allows users to send greetings to Facebook friends or through email.

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On the Net:

Pope2You: www.pope2you.net/