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Friday - Theme of the Day: Exploring Suffering and its Potential to Exclude and Isolate People. Celebrating Communion through Healing.
Mass with Anointing of the Sick
The daily programme for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress from 11th until 16th June 2012 took place in the Royal Dublin Society (RDS). Statio Orbis, the Liturgy on the final day of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress, was celebrated in Croke Park, Dublin, on Sunday 17th June 2012.
| Time | Venue | Language | Event Type | Name of Speaker | Details | Topic |
| 08.30- 9.00 | Prayer Space | Music and continuity | ||||
| 9.00-10.00 | Prayer Space | English Portugese |
Morning prayer |
Bishop Derek Byrne SPS | Diocese of Guiratinga, Brazil | |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 3 | English (Translation in French) |
Workshop | Fr Michael Shields | Magadan, Russia | Christian Witness from the Gulag |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 5B | English | Workshop | Sr Consilio Fitzgerald RSM | Cuan Mhuire Addiction Rehabilitation Centre | Co-dependency, Communion and Healing |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 5A | French | Talk | Rev Dr Declan Hurley | Diocese of Meath, Ireland | Le livre de Job: des questions face aux défis de nos jours |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 5C | English | Workshop | Ms Alice Leahy | TRUST | Communion with People who find themselves Homeless |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 2B |
English/Sign |
Workshop (Deaf Track 3) | Father Min-Seo Park and Mrs Mary Duggan | International Catholic Foundation for the Service of Deaf Persons | The Deaf Person in the Life of the Church |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 7 | English | Concert | Father Liam Lawton | Musician and composer, Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin | Sacred Song |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 9 | English | Film/ Workshop | Fr Neil Collins SSC | Columban Missionaries | A Columbanus in the Twentieth Century |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 5, Lansdowne | English | Talk | Professor Timothy T O'Donnell | Christendom College, Virginia, USA | The Sacred Heart and the Eucharist |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 2A | English (Translation in Italian) |
Presentation | Professor Desmond O'Neill | Professor of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin and Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland | The Communion of the Sick and Dying |
| 10.00-11.00 | Hall 5E | English | Group reflection | Dr Anne Codd PBVM, Ms Julieann Moran and team | Council for Pastoral Renewal and Adult Faith Development, Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference | Communion and Co-responsibility: coming to life in pastoral practice |
| 10.00 | Hall 5D | Spanish | Workshop | Ms Sally O'Neill and Ms Patty Abozaglo | Trócaire | A Place at the Table |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 3 | English (Translation in Spanish) | Address | Fr Dan Crosby OFM Cap | St Anthony Spirituality Centre, Marthon, USA | Becoming the Eucharist We Celebrate |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 2A | English (Translation French) |
Workshop | Br Donatus Forkan OH Prior General | Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God | Including People from the Margins |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 5A | English | Talk | Rev Dr Declan Hurley | Diocese of Meath, Ireland | The Book of Job: Questions and Contemporary Challenges |
| 11.30 | English (Translation Spanish) |
Address | Mr Peter Sutherland | UN Special Representative for Migration and Development | A constructive attitude towards migration is a moral issue | |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 5E | English | Group reflection | Dr Anne Codd PBVM, Ms Julieann Moran and team | Council for Pastoral Renewal and Adult Faith Development |
Communion and Co-responsibility: coming to life in pastoral practice |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 5, Lansdowne | English/Sign | Workshop (Deaf Track 6) | Archbishop Patrick A Kelly | Archbishop of Liverpool and International Catholic Foundation for the Service of Deaf Persons | Jesus the Way, our Waybread, our Viaticum: through him and with him and in him we ascend to “my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” (Jn 20:17) |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 2B | English | Play | Written and performed by Ms Eleanor Glenn | Archdiocese of Kingston, Canada | Servant at the Supper |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 5B | English | Talk | Sr Una Agnew SSL | Milltown Institute, Dublin | Spirituality in the writings of Patrick Kavanagh |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 5C | German | Presentation | Father Eamon Kelly LC | Pontifical Institute, Notre Dame of Jerusalem Centre, Jerusalem | Encountering the Lord in the Holy Land |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 5D | French | Workshop | Ms Pascale Roussy and Mr Mark Cumming | Trócaire | A Place at the Table |
| 11.30-12.30 | Hall 9 | English | Workshop | Rev Dr Niall Ahern | Diocese of Elphin | Belonging - Disability - Communion |
| 13.00-14.00 | Arena | Music and Continuity | ||||
| 14.00-14.45 | Arena | English (Translation in French and Spanish) | Catechesis | Archbishop Bashar Warda CSsR | Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil | Communion in Suffering and Healing |
| 14.45-15.00 | Arena | English (Translation in French and Spanish) | Live telecast | Ms Marion Mulhall | Worldpriest | Annual Global Rosary Relay for Priests |
| 15.00-15.45 | Arena | English (Translation in French and Spanish) | Testimony | Ms Rose Busingye | Meeting Point, Kampala, Uganda | Personal Testimony on Communion in Suffering and Healing |
| 16.00-18.00 | Arena | English (Translation in French and Spanish) |
Mass | Partriarch Fouad Twal | Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem | Eucharist with the Sacrament of Anointing |
| 19.00-20.00 | Hall 5B | Spanish | Workshop | Father John McCarthy MSC | Missionaries of the Sacred Heart | La Misión desde el Corazón |
| 19.00-20.00 | Hall 2A | English (Translation in Italian) |
Address | Father Henricus Veldkamp | Chancellor, Archdiocese of Tirana-Durrës | Communion in Suffering and Healing |
| 19.00-20.00 | Hall 5, Lansdowne | English | Follow-up workshop | Mr Richard Moore | Founder of Children in Crossfire | Children in Crossfire |
| 19.00-20.00 | Hall 5C | English | Workshop | Ms Padraigín Clancy | Lecturer, author and broadcaster in Celtic Heritage and Spirituality, Parish Pastoral Council, Aran Islands |
In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors; Wisdom and Prayer from the Celtic Tradition |
| 19.00-20.00 | Hall 7 | English | Choral concert | Our Lady's Choral Society | Dublin Diocesan Choir | Our Lady's Choral Society and Friends |
| 19.00-20.00 | Hall 3 | English (Translation in French) |
Address | Father Thomas Rosica CSB | Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation, Canada | Is there a Catholic Media? |
| 19.00-20.00 | Hall 5A | Mandarin (Chinese) | Workshop | Bishop John Baptist Lee Keh-Mien | Bishop of Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China | The Eucharist and the Pastoral Care of the Sick |
| 19.00 | Hall 2B | English (Translation in Spanish) |
Talk | Father Peter McVerry SJ | Peter McVerry Trust | Communion and Inclusion |
| 19.00 | Hall 9 | English | Film | Introduced by Sister Ethel Keegan IBVM | Loreto Sisters | Mary Ward, Dangerous Visionary: The Story of Mary Ward, Founder of the Loreto Sisters (IBVM) |
| 19.00 | Hall 5D | English | Workshop | Speakers are to be confirmed | Mary MacKillop: A Saint for Our Time | |
| 19.00-20.00 | Hall 5E | English | Group reflection | Dr Dr Anne Codd PBVM, Ms Julieann Moran and team | Council for Pastoral Renewal and Adult Faith Development, Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference | Communion and Co-responsibility coming to life in pastoral practice |
Liturgical music for the Congress
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