Year of Faith Event to celebrate Evangelium Vitae

Vatican City, 27 April 2013: The Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization is organizing a large gathering in the Vatican on June 15 and 16 to celebrate Evangelium Vitae: Faithful to Life. The event, in the year of faith, will offer the opportunity for the faithful from around the world to gather with the Holy Father in a communal witness to the sacred value of all life: The lives of the aged, the lives of the sick, the lives of the dying, the lives of the unborn, the lives of the physically and mentally challenged, and the lives of all those who suffer, revealed a Vatican communique on Friday.
The event will also offer the occasion to celebrate, affirm, and encourage all those who so tenderly and with self-abandonment follow in the footsteps of the Good Shepherd by tending to the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of those who are aged, disabled, ill, unborn, homebound, dying or who suffer in any way, the communique added.
The organizers expressed the hope that the number of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square will be so great that all the world will be able to hear from Rome our Church’s choral expression of the very heart of Jesus’ redemptive mission: "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly".

On 15 June, there will be an Educational Conference titled ‘The Gospel of Life and the New Evangelization’ at the Pontifical Urbaniana University. The Conference will explore the enduring and timeless truths of Blessed John Paul II's 1995 Encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, and the central role that the Gospel of Life continues to have in the Church's mission of the New Evangelization.

On 16 June, Sunday morning Pope Francis will celebrate Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Square for the participants of the event.Source: VR Sedoc