Legend:
Red text: liturgical celebrations
Blue text: audiences and other commitments announced in advance
Green text: period of rest / Apostolic Journeys
August
8.1 - Audience for Dr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and his entourage.
Audience for Dr. Gian Franco Mammì, Director General of the Institute for the Works of Religion.
8.2 - 12 nn: Audience in the Clementine Hall for artists performing at the youth meeting at Tor Vergata; improvised speech.
3 pm: Audience in the Small Room of the Paul VI Hall for the young Egyptian pilgrims, schoolmates of eighteen-year-old Pascale Rafic, who died on the journey from Egypt to Rome to participate in the Jubilee of Youth.
8.30 pm: Jubilee of Youth: Presiding over the Prayer Vigil with Young People at Tor Vergata; the Pope carried the Jubilee Cross together with several young people towards the stage. Liturgy of the Word; speech during which the Holy Father answered three questions from different youth about friendship, courage to choose, and the call to do good; Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction; speech at the end thanking the musicians.
8.3 - Improvised greeting to young people after arriving at Tor Vergata.
9 am: Holy Mass at Tor Vergata for the conclusion of the Jubilee of Youth
12 nn: Angelus Domini; improvised speech after the Mass.
12 nn: Angelus Domini; improvised speech after the Mass.
8.4 - In the evening, visit to Ignacio González, a young Spaniard who came to Rome for the Jubilee of Youth and was recently admitted to the Bambino Gesù Hospital.
A telegram of condolence was sent by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on behalf of the Holy Father for the victims of the shipwreck of a vessel off the coast of Yemen.
Message to the participants in the 36th Youth Festival in Medjugorje, which takes place from 4 to 8 August.
8.5 - Message sent to Msgr. Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama, P.S.S., Bishop of Hiroshima, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings.
8.6 - Video message to the Pan-African Catholic Network of Theology and Pastoral Care on the occasion of its Third Congress.
Video message for the participants of the 143rd Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus
10 am: Wednesday General Audience; Appeal on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing in Japan.
8.7 - A telegram of condolence was sent by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on behalf of the Holy Father to Bishop Matthew K. Gyamfi, Bishop of Sunyani and President of the Episcopal Conference of Ghana, for the victims of the helicopter crash in the Republic of Ghana.
8.9 - A telegram of condolence after the death of Cardinal Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Parana, was sent to Archbishop Raúl Martín.
The Holy Father appointed Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P., Archbishop Emeritus of Vienna, as his representative for the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the dedication of the Chapel of the Black Madonna of St. Mary at Kupfergasse in Cologne, Germany, to be held on Sunday, 14 September 2025.
8.10 - 12 nn: Angelus Domini
8.11 - Audience for Philémon Yang, President of the 79th United Nations General Assembly, and entourage.
8.13 - 10 am: Wednesday General Audience at Paul VI Hall; greeting the faithful gathered outside the hall and in St. Peter's Basilica, improvised speeches.
In the afternoon, transfer by car to Castel Gandolfo
8.14 - Rest time in Castel Gandolfo
8.15 - Solemnity of the Assumption
Rest time in Castel Gandolfo
Message to the participants in the Social Week 2025, hosted in Lima, Peru, from 14 to 16 August,
10 am: Holy Mass in the Pontifical Parish of San Tommaso da Villanova
12 nn: Angelus Domini in Piazza della Libertà
Message to the Oblate Sisters of St. Francesca Romana of Tor de' Specchi on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the Oblation of their foundress, St. Francesca Romana.
8.16 - Rest time in Castel Gandolfo
8.17 - Rest time in Castel Gandolfo
9.30 am: Holy Mass at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Rotonda in Albano with the poor assisted by the Diocese and the Diocesan Caritas workers.
12 nn: Angelus Domini in Piazza della Libertà
1 pm: Lunch with the poor assisted by the Diocese of Albano and with the workers of the Diocesan Caritas, at Borgo Laudato si', in the Gardens of the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo; improvised greeting.
8.18 - Rest time in Castel Gandolfo
8.19 - Rest time in Castel Gandolfo
In the morning, a private visit to the Marian Shrine of Madonna delle Grazie in Mentorella in the village of Guadangolo, 65 km southeast of Rome.
In the evening, return to the Vatican
8.20 - 10 am: Wednesday General Audience
A Telegram was sent by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, on behalf of the Holy Father Leo XIV to Fr. Oscar Pinto, Rector of the Fundacion Universitaria San Alfonso for the participants in the XVII International Congress of Moral Theology, taking place in Bogota from 20 to 21 August 2025.
8.21 - Message sent by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on behalf of the Holy Father to the participants in the XLVI Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, which will take place in Rimini from 22 to 27 August 2025.
8.22 - Audience for Wavel Ramkalawan, President of the Republic of Seychelles, with his wife and entourage.
Message to the participants in the Ecumenical Week in Stockholm (18-24 August 2025) on the centenary of the Ecumenical Meeting of 1925.
8.23 - 10.30 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for the participants in the International Catholic Legislators Network.
11 am: Audience in the Consistory Hall for the participants in the General Chapters of four Institutes: the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family; the Institute of the Apostles of the Holy Family; the Sisters of Nazareth; and the Sisters of Charity of Saint Mary.
12 nn: Audience in the Hall of Popes for the Delegation of the “Chagos Refugees Group” of Port Louis (Mauritius).
The Holy Father appointed Cardinal Claudio Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches, as his representative to the centenary celebrations of the Diocese of Pinsk (Belarus) on 18 October 2025.
The Holy Father appointed Cardinal Dominik Duka, OP, Archbishop Emeritus of Prague, as his representative for the centenary of the establishment of the Archdiocese of Gdańsk (Poland), which will be held at Oliwa Cathedral on 14 October 2025.
The Holy Father appointed Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, OFM, Archbishop Emeritus of Durban, as his representative for the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Archdiocese of Cape Coast and of the Archdioceses of Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale and the Diocese of Keta-Akatsi (Ghana), to be held in Cape Coast on 25 October 2025.
8.24 - 12 nn: Angelus Domini
8.25 - Audience for Mohamed Abdelsalam, Secretary General of the Zayed Prize for Human Fraternity.
Audience for Antonio Tajani, Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic.
11.30 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for a group of Altar Servers from France.
8.26 - The theme for the 59th World Day of Peace is announced: "Peace be with you all: Towards an 'unarmed and disarming' peace."
8.27 - 10 am: Wednesday General Audience; appeal for peace in the Holy Land
A telegram of condolence was sent by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on behalf of the Holy Father to Archbishop Bernard Hebda, Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, for the victims of the shooting that occurred at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis (U.S.A.).
8.28 - Audience for Isidor Marcel Sene, the new Ambassador of Senegal to the Holy See.
10.45am: Audience in the Consistory Hall for a delegation of political figures from the Diocese of Créteil in France.
8.29 - Video message of thanks on the occasion of the awarding of the Medal of St. Augustine, conferred by the Augustinian Province of St. Thomas of Villanova (United States of America) to the Holy Father.
Audience for Ward Fitzgerald, President of the "Papal Foundation."
Audience for Matteo Salvini, Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport of the Italian Republic, and his entourage.
11 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for the members of the "Escuelas de Evangelización “San Andrés”
8.30 - Audience for Andrea Riccardi, Founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio.
Audience for Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, and his entourage.
8.31 - 12 nn: Angelus Domini
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