This afternoon at 4:30 p.m., the entrance in conclave and the oath for the election of the Roman Pontiff will take place, according to the Ordo Rituum Conclavis. Their eminences the voters will be At 16:15 in the Paulina Chapel, the first lodge of the Vatican Apostolic Palace.
The Latin Rite Cardinals will wear the red robe with the girdle, the rockery, the muleta, the pectoral cross with red and golden cord, the ring, the solideo and the birreta; The Cardinals of the Eastern Churches will wear their own choral habit.
From the Paulina chapel, to the song of the litanies of the saints, the voters will be directed in procession to the Sistine Chapel where, After the song of Veni CreatorThey will pronounce the prescribed oath.
In addition to the voters, they will participate in the procession, While in the royal room of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, at 4:00 p.m. and wearing its own choral habit:
– The cardinal who will dictate meditation;
– The Secretary of the Conclave and the ViceCamarlengo;
– The teacher of the papal liturgical celebrations;
– Two members of the College of Apostolic Protonotaries of Participants;
– Two members of the College of Prelates of the Roman Rota;
– Pontifical ceremonies teachers;
– The secretary of the cardinal who presides over the conclave;
– The pontifical musical chapel.
At 16:00 access to the Sistine Chapel to the following people will be allowed:
– The substitute for general matters of the Secretary of State;
– The Secretary for Relations with the States and International Organizations of the Secretary of State;
– The regent of the Pontifical House;
– The religious assigned to the papal sacristy;
– The priests in charge of the confessions;
– The colonel of the Pontifical Swiss Guard body.
It will also be present, with the corresponding entrances, the service personnel of the office for the liturgical celebrations of the Pontiff, of the body of the Swiss Pontifical Guard, of the Directorate of Health and Hygiene, of the Flower shop and the Dicasteria for Communication.