9.30 a.m. The Archbishop meets the Congregation for Bishops for the ad Limina visit on the Archdiocese of Malta, at the Vatican. Gozo Bishop Mario Grech will also be having the ad Limina visit on the Gozo diocese.

11 a.m. The Archbishop, the Bishop of Gozo and Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Mercieca meet Pope Benedict XVI in a private audience at the start of the ad Limina.

12.30 p.m. The Archbishop attends a meeting at the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants.

4 p.m. He celebrates Mass at the Basilica of St John Lateran.

Tuesday

The bishops attend meetings at the Supreme Tribunal, the Congregation for the Clergy, the Congregation for Catholic Education, Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

4 p.m. They celebrate Mass at the Basilica of St Mary Major.

Wednesday

7.15 a.m. The bishops celebrate Mass at St Peter’s Basilica, followed by meetings of the Pontifical Council for health care workers, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation.

Thursday

The bishops attend a meeting of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the Apostolic Penitentiary.

4 p.m. The Archbishop celebrates Mass at the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls.

Saturday

9 a.m. The Archbishop meets Fr Joe Saliba, O.Carm. and Fr Ivan Scicluna, O.Carm., the new parish priests of St Venera and Fleur-de-Lys respectively,at the Curia.

9.30 a.m. He presides over a meeting of the Presbyteral Council at the Curia.