The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization adds events to the schedule With Francis during the Year of Mercy

A prayer vigil to “dry
the tears” of those who are suffering and in need of consoling. A visit to a
hostel and moment for penance. 

These are a few examples of the events which the
Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization has added to their
calendar of events for the extraordinary
Holy Year on the website www.im.va. These meetings, in which Pope Francis will participate, will
involve families, pilgrimage organizers, parish priests and rectors of shrines,
members of the Roman Curia, of the Governorate of Vatican City State and other
Holy See institutions, teenagers, deacons, catechists and inmates. In addition
to the detailed agenda of these special days, the dicastery has announced that
in order to promote pilgrimages there will be a series of jubilee audiences
with the Pope which will be held on 12 Saturdays from January to November 2016.

These new additions
to the calendar of the Jubilee of Mercy were conceived of as moments of
awareness and welcome, demonstrating that no one is excluded from divine mercy.
The Jubilee — which opens on 8 December 2015, the Feast of Christ the King —
intends to show the world the abundance of divine mercy. From the opening of
the Holy Door to its closing, the Pontiff will perform several signs of the
jubilee bearing witness to corporal and spiritual works of mercy. Many of the
larger events will be held over several days in order to offer the possibility
reflection and further involvement in the path to conversion that the Gospel calls for. The
Pope will participate in moments of prayer, liturgical celebrations and
Eucharistic adoration.