We invite you to come
and journey with us
through Lent to Easter
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For more information,
please call the
Parish Office
Monday - Friday
9:00 am to 9:00 pm
410-464-4000
or contact us online.
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Easter Flowers:
Remember or honor a loved one with an Easter Flower offering this year. Gifts help meet the cost of decorating the Cathedral with beautiful flowers and greenery for Easter.
If you would like to contribute towards the Easter Flowers, please email Mary Miller, Director of Development, or call her at 410-464-4014. A listing of the remembered and honored will be published in the bulletin after Easter.
Easter Collection:
Your contribution to the Cathedral makes a tremendous difference in our parish life and ministries. If you would like to contribute to the Easter Collection, please email Mary Miller, Director of Development or call her at 410-464-4014. Thank you for your prayerful consideration of a gift to the Cathedral’s Easter Collection. |
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2011 Holy Week Schedule
Saturday
April 16 |
Confessions
4:00–5:00 pm
The Light is On for You!
Experience the healing of the Sacrament of Confession: Click here for more information about this Sacrament.
Mass
5:00 pm Vigil Mass |
April 17
Palm Sunday |
(see Holy Week Music)
8:00 am Mass
9:15 am Liturgy with Children
11:00 apm Solemn Mass with Blessing of Palms
and
Procession with Archbishop O’Brien
1:00 pm Mass
3:00 pm Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ
in the Parish Center |
Monday
April 18 |
Mass
7:00 am, 8:15 am (no 5:30 pm Mass)
Mass of Chrism
7:30 pm with Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien
The Sacred Oils will be blessed and consecrated for use in the Archdiocese, and the priests, deacons, religious, and all those in pastoral ministry of the Church of Baltimore will renew their commitment to service. |
Tuesday
April 19 |
Mass
7:00 am, 8:15 am, 5:30 pm
Communal Reconciliation Service
and Confessions
7:00-7:30 pm Penance Service
in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel
7:30-8:30 pm Confessions
The Light is On for You!
Experience the healing of the Sacrament of Confession: Click here for more information about this Sacrament. |
Wednesday
April 20 |
Mass
7:00 am, 8:15 am, 5:30 pm
Thinking Transforming Yourself?
A Men’s Recollection
Presented by Fr. Joe Breighner
7:00 to 8:30 PM in the Parish Center |
Holy Thursday
April 21 |
Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper
8:15 am
for those who, for a serious reason, cannot attend the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper.
7:30 pm
with Most Rev. Edwin F. O’Brien,
Archbishop of Baltimore
The Church begins the Sacred Triduum by commemorating the institution of the Eucharist and the Priesthood. We remember Jesus' command of love and service with the washing of feet, and the Eucharist is carried in solemn procession to a place of reservation where all keep vigil with the Lord, giving thanks for the offering of His life for our salvation.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
End of Mass until 12 Midnight.
Closing with Night Prayer
in the Repository. |
Good
Friday
April 22 |
Morning Prayer
9:00 am in Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Celebration of the Lord's Passion
3:00 pm
with Most Rev. Edwin F. O’Brien,
Archbishop of Baltimore
On this day "when Christ became our paschal sacrifice," the Church reflects on the Passion of her Lord and Savior, adores His Cross, and intercedes for the salvation of the entire world. While Mass is not celebrated today, Holy Communion is distributed.
Stations of the Cross
7:30pm
Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession)
after Stations until 9:00 pm.
The Light is On for You!
Experience the healing of the Sacrament of Confession: Click here for more information about this Sacrament. |
Holy Saturday
April 23 |
Morning Prayer
9:00 am in Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Sacrament of Reconciliation
(Confessions)
11:00 am-12 noon
The Light is On for You!
Experience the healing of the Sacrament of Confession: Click here for more information about this Sacrament.
Blessing of Easter Foods
12:30 pm in Our Lady Chapel
no afternoon confessions
no 5:00 pm Mass
Solemn Easter Vigil Mass
8:00 pm
with Most Rev. Edwin F. O’Brien,
Archbishop of Baltimore
The Mass on this "night of nights" begins in darkness with the blessing of the new fire and Paschal Candle and the chanting of the Easter Proclamation, the Exsultet. After an extended Liturgy of the Word (when various stages of salvation history are proclaimed), new members of the Church are initiated through the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation. Then, all join together for the first Eucharist of Easter. |
Easter Sunday
April 24 |
Solemn Easter Sunday Mass
8:00 am Mass
9:15 am Contemporary Music Mass
11:00 am Solemn Choral Liturgy with Most Rev. Denis J. Madden, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore
and
1:00 pm Mass |
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