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Message Repeats Peace Plea Vatican City: Pope Paul VI in his first Christmas message to the world has raised the same cry for peace that echoed and re-echoed in the Christmas messages of his predecessors, Pope John XXIII and Pope Pius XI!.
Jerusalem, Jordan: Pope Paul VI will take part in a night-time penitential service at the Garden of Gethsemane as part of his precedent-shattering Holy Land pilgrimage, it was learned here from reliable sources. The Pontiff w leave Rome's Fiumicino Airport at 8.30 a.m. (Rome me) on January 4. The 1,500-mile jet flight is due to arrive at the airport outside the Jordanian capit Amman about two hours later. Vatican Radii .reported an announcement by an official Jordan' spokesman that King Hussein, acommpanied b members of his government, will receive Pope Pa at the Amman Airport.
In the message, Pope Paul also joined the plea for Christian unity so dear to the heart of Pope John —so dear that it almost became identified with that beloved Pope. Pope Paul joined peace and religious unity together as in an indissoluble marriage. "This religious link . . . the most solid and hopeful basis for unity among men. The true sociology of human peace takes its rise from Christian religious unity," the Pontiff said.
ESCORT The papal pla will be escorted by squadrons of the Jordanian air f ce as it enters Jordan's air space. Along the 60-mS e drive from Amman to Jerusalem, the people of Jor an will have a chance to acclaim the Pope, Vatican R to said. A triumphal a h will be set up at the entrance of the city of Amn n and the streets will be decorated with papal flags. The Israeli E assy press office in Vatican City announced that t Israeli government will make every effort to grant all vailable facilities to members of the press. TV and ra o. Pope Paul is e cted to reach Jerusalem at 2.30 p.m. Then he will ma his way along the path that Christ bore the Cross, fi lly reaching the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, the st of the burial and Resurrection of the Lord. He is to er a low Mass at the site of Christ's tomb. The penitenti ervice will be held at 10.30 that night atop the Mount f: Olives. In effect a holy hour, the service is to de the chanting of the Passion narratives of th spels in Latin, Greek, Arabic and Armenian. Pope Paul is spent that night at the headquarters of the Apostolicfflelt :zation in Jordanian Jerusalem. On
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EGYPT GOV'T. " HOUSE This special new ap shows some of the Christian shrines in Israel and Jordan which Pope Paul VI will his January 4 to pilgrimage to the Holy Land. visit during The Jerusalem map (right) indicates the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built er the site where Christ was entombed, where the Pope is scheduled to offer Mass on the feast of the Epiphany, Monday, January 6.
This little town, where Our Lord grew to manhood, is one of the places Pope Paul VI will visit on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Nazareth is within the state of Israel. This narrow street, typical o f most of the places the Holy Father will visit, illustrates the difficulties that confront plans to follow the Pontiff's progress with mobile television cameras.
arriving at Rome's Ciampino Airport at 5.30 p.m. Vatican Radio has reported that all Catholic bishops of the Eastern Rites in the Middle East will be on hand to meet the Holy Father when he lands at Amman. Among those expected to be present are Coptic Rite Patriarch Shephanos I Sidarouss, CM.. of Alexandria: Chaldean Rite Patriarch Ignace Pierre XVI Batanian of Cilica: Melkite Rite Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh of Antioch: Latin Rite Patriarch Alberto Gori, 0.F.M., of Jerusalem: and Melkite Rit Archbishop Michel Assaf of Petra and Philadelphia, Jordan. In Israel. the Pope will be met by Melkite Rite Bishop Georges Hakim of Acre, that nation's only Catholic bishop.
ARCHBISHOP R ETURNS
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP HAS RETURNED FROM THE SECOND SESSION OF THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. He was met at Perth Airport by one of the staff of St. Mary's Cathedral on Monday afternoon. Members of the West Augtralian Hierarchy yet to return are His Lordship Bishop J. Jobst and His Lordship Bishop L. Goody of Bunbury, who went to the Holy Land. • Archbishop's Statement — P. 3.
CONSTANT Since the World 1Var II era utterances of Pope Pius XII, mapping a durable peace. virtually every papal Christmas message has dealt with peace in some way or other. As Pope Paul put it in his 1963 message: "This is suggested by Christmas itself, since as we all know, this feast is presented to us as a message of peace bestowed from heaven upon all men of goodwill." Like Popes Pius and John, Pope Paul addressed his appeal to all men of goodwill. He also drew attention to Pope John's encyclical Pacem in Terris, which, as he said, has shown us . . . the new problems of peace and the dynamism of the elements from which peace must result."
HUNG= Like Pope John in his encyclical Mater et Magistra, Pope Paul touched on problems of nations on their way to fuller development. Pope Paul also dwelt on the agonising problem of hunger, which torments half the human race. Pope John had touched on this problem in Mater et Magistra. but never made it a subject of his Christmas messages. For all its practical points and implications, Pope Paul's treatment of this subject was steeped in the same depth of doctrine that characterised the 19 Christmas messages of Pope Pius XII. Pope Paul also touched on a subject that is new not only in the history of papal messages but also in the history of the papacy itself — his forthcoming voyage to the land of the
first Christmas.