The singer Niña Pastori will perform at the end of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to the ‘Cedia 24 Hours’ social center, a Cáritas Madrid center for reception and comprehensive care for homeless people located in the Lucero neighborhood, as revealed by the organizers of the Pontiff’s visit to Madrid, where he will be from June 6 to 9.
“We will be accompanied by artists who generously want to be there. Niña Pastori is going to finish the Cedia event giving it that color,” said the pastoral director of the Pope’s visit to Madrid, Laura Moreno, this Thursday at a press conference at the Almudena Cathedral.
The Pontiff will go to the Cedia center on Saturday, June 6, in the afternoon at 6:00 p.m., and there he will hold a meeting with the homeless people who are served there by the social work of the Church.
That same day at night, at the vigil with the young people, groups such as Hakuna or Siloé will perform; and at the ‘Tejer Redes’ event, with the world of culture, on Sunday afternoon at the Movistar Arena, the Musical Godspell by Antonio Banderas is expected to be present.
Among other novelties, the technical director of the Pope’s trip, Yago de la Cierva, explained that several golf cars (“golf carts”) are being adapted as small Popemobiles, so that the Pontiff can enter smaller spaces “in such a way that the proximity of the people is much greater.” In turn, they have indicated that they want Prevost to use the Popemobile for as long as possible when traveling around the city.
De la Cierva has also highlighted the “magnificent” collaboration of both the City Council and the Community of Madrid that have provided spaces for the celebration of the events, and has thanked the State that “is going to put a lot into everything that has to do with the caravan as head of State and with the security that is going to be important by being on alert 3 out of 4.” In addition, they have asked for financial aid from large and medium-sized companies, which have also offered them help in kind. “We have seen the city’s embrace of the visit,” he insisted.
In addition, the organizers have specified that they are preparing cultural and religious alternatives to which young people can attend during the night of Saturday the 6th, when the vigil will take place in Plaza de Lima until 10:30 p.m., on Sunday the 7th, which will be the Corpus mass in the Plaza de Cibeles, at 10:00 a.m.
MUSEUMS OPEN AT NIGHT
Moreno said that the museums will open that night as well as the Churches, with “an attractive program for young people and adults” and added that young people who arrive from outside the capital will be able to sleep that night in schools and parishes.
During the event, the Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, José Cobo, also spoke, who hopes that Prevost’s visit to the city will not remain “fireworks” but will be part of “a process.”
“In a world in which we are a little tense or make negative readings, let’s see where the defect is, (the Pope’s visit to Spain) arouses joy, arouses hope and it is incredible what is moving around,” he assured.
For his part, the auxiliary bishop of Madrid Vicente Martín has highlighted that the Pope will open his trip with the visit to Cedia to “make visible that human dignity” must be “the center of the life of the Church, of social, economic and political life.” “The Pope opens his apostolic journey with the poor and closes it with the least of society,” he highlighted.