60th Anniversary of Ordination of Pope Benedict XV1 - 29 June 2011

The Bishops of England and Wales received a letter from Mauro Cardinal Piacenza, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy im May. The letter was about the sixtieth anniversary of the priestly ordination of our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI which was be celebrated on 29 June.  To mark this significant anniversary, every parish, or religious community was asked to offer sixty hours of Eucharistic Adoration during the month of June, to focus on the anniversary of priesthood and also for the sanctification of clergy.  As Cardinal Piacenza wrote in his letter, “in this way, the Pontiff could be honoured with an extraordinary spiritual bouquet of prayer and spiritual union”.  Archbishop Longley then asked for support for this in the Ad Clerum in mid June.
 Christ the King, in Coventry, arranged 60 hours Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 7am - 7pm every day from Monday 27th June to Friday 1st July centring on Wednesday 29th June, the great feast of the Solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul. 
The adoration ended on the feast of the Sacred Heart on Friday, 1st July with vocations to the priesthood being prayed for.

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