Limited Tickets Are Available for Papal Mass

Tickets to attend the Mass to be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, April 20, are being distributed among all the archdioceses and dioceses in the United States. As a result, only a limted number will be allocated to the Diocese of Brooklyn.

The pastors and administratorsof the 202 parishes in Brooklyn and Queens will each have access to three tickets for their parishioners. If more tickets become available to the Diocese, the pastors and administrators will be advised so that they may be able to accommodate the requests of a few more parishioners.

The Prayer Channel, diocesancable television, intends to telecast the Mass in its entirety, as well as the other papal events during the Holy Father’s apostolic journey.

Dioceses from Anchorage, Alaska, to Syracuse, N.Y., have been posting notices on their websites about how to request tickets for the papal Mass at Yankee Stadium, which holds 65,000 people, and an April 17 Mass at Nationals Park in Washington, which will seat up to 45,000 people for the event.

But the various notices make one thing clear: If your opportunity to request a ticket has not already passed, it will soon.

The Diocese of Syracuse posted a brief notice that it had “filled all the requests possible” for the New York Mass, with its allotment of 500 tickets already reserved.

The Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, said requests for its “very limited number of tickets” had to be in by Jan. 18, with a lottery planned if requests for tickets exceeded the number received.

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