• Maine’s congressional delegation and their guests will be among the officials welcoming Pope Francis to the White House at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday. He will then meet privately with President Obama, making him the third pope ever to visit the White House.

• Bishop Robert Deeley and other U.S. bishops will meet with Pope Francis for midday prayer at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Deeley also will attend the canonization Mass of Junípero Serra, to be celebrated by Pope Francis at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

• Maine’s congressional delegation and their guests will gather at the Capitol at 9:20 a.m. Thursday to hear Pope Francis deliver the first papal address to a joint session of Congress.

• Bishop Deeley will celebrate Mass at  11:30 a.m. Saturday at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. About 2,000 people are expected to attend, including delegations from Portland, Bangor and dioceses across the country that have traveled to Philadelphia for the pope’s visit.

• The delegation from Portland will visit the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Philadelphia at 3 p.m. Saturday. Bishop Deeley will accompany the group to a welcoming ceremony for Pope Francis at the Festival of Families on Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

• Bishop Deeley and other U.S. bishops will meet with Pope Francis at 9:15 a.m. Sunday in St. Martin’s Chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Bishop Deeley also will attend the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families, to be celebrated by Pope Francis with about 1 million people on Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 4 p.m. Sunday.


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