WRAP Benedict XVI visits Altoetting, mass, visit to chapel
1. Aerial shot of helicopters flying over Bavarian countryside
2. Medium shot of helicopter flying
3. Aerial shot of helicopter after landing
4. Pope Benedict XVI exits helicopter and is greeted by church official
5. Benedict takes his seat in Popemobile
6. Popemobile driving away
7. Benedict waving
8. Pope and entourage arrive in Altoetting among cheering crowds
9. Close-up of altar in Chapel of Mercy, zoom out to Benedict praying
10. Close-up Benedict
11. Zoom shot of Benedict leaving chapel to fanfare and cheers
12. High shot of cheering crowds
13. Various of Benedict greeting people
14. Various of Benedict walking onto stage
15. Benedict on stage with incense
17. Side shot of stage
18. SOUNDBITE (German) Pope Benedict XVI:
To make God great means to make room for him in the world, in our own life. To let him into our time and our actions. This is the deepest meaning of a right prayer.
19. Pilgrims
20. SOUNDBITE: (German) Walburga Wieland, Laywoman:
And five years after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, we ask for peace all over the world.
21. Benedict and entourage leaving stage
22. Various of procession
23. Benedict entering chapel
24. Various of Benedict praying in chapel
25. Benedict greeting pilgrims
26. Benedict talking to child
27. Close up of chanting woman, zoom out to aerial shot of crowd (UPSOUND: crowd clapping and chanting Benedetto)
STORYLINE:
Pope Benedict XVI travelled on Monday to the Bavarian place of pilgrimage, Altoetting, to hold Mass, with his sentimental homecoming to Bavaria drawing well-wishers and Roman Catholics eager to hear his words.
Benedict left Munich by helicopter for the short journey to the city, where he was met by Bavarian Governor Edmund Stoiber and Wilhelm Schraml, the Bishop of Passau, along with thousands of people eager to catch a glimpse of the 79-year-old pontiff and hear him hold Mass.
Throughout the city - known for its shrines and the statue of a Black Madonna that is believed to have worked miracles - people filled the pavements and squares.
The Kapellplatz square in Altoetting is surrounded by church spires, with the small Chapel of Mercy - where the pope prayed at the beginning of his visit - at one end and the stage where he delivered Mass at the other end.
Cars had to park outside the limits of the town, near the village where the pope was born in 1927, and where his family made several pilgrimages
during his childhood, which the pontiff has said are among his earliest memories.
People lined the route down which the Pope Mobile travelled to the town, as church bells pealed welcoming Benedict's arrival.
Businesses along the route put posters in windows welcoming Benedict.
Pilgrims gathered in the Dultplatz, a square near the papal route, as early as 2:30 a.m. local time (0030 GMT).
Benedict celebrated Mass in front of 70,000 people and listened to a brief prayer for peace tied to the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.
At the Mass, Benedict said that Western society - including his fellow Germans - often shut their ears to the Christian message, but that they should re-introduce God into their daily lives.
To make God great means to make room for him in the world, in our own life. To let him into our time and our actions, Benedict told the crowd of people, who stood quietly shoulder-to-shoulder.
The need for Western Europe to return to its Christian roots is one of Benedict's favourite themes, and a message of his visit to his native country - home to a shrinking and liberal Catholic Church and a highly secularised society.
More than 100,000 people leave the German church every year, and only about 14 per cent attend Mass on an average Sunday.
He even paused to bless an infant.
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