Workers place a chair and stool prior to the first Mass of the Easter week, which was presided by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re in the Vatican. Workers place a chair and a stool prior to the first Mass of the Easter week, which was presided by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, a senior cardinal in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica, March 24, 2005. Re, who stood in for Pope John Paul at a Holy Thursday ceremony at the Vatican, said the ailing Pontiff was "serenely abandoning" himself to God's will. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi