Cathedral of Mary Our Queen
   
 


We invite you to come
and journey with us
through Lent to Easter

For more information,
please call the
Parish Office

Monday - Friday
9:00 am to 9:00 pm
410-464-4000
or contact us online.


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.

2010 Holy Week Schedule

Saturday
March 27

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

March 28
Palm Sunday
Reflection from the readings:
What are the "colts" in your life?
Mass 8:00 am
Mass 9:15 am Liturgy with Children
Mass 11:00 am
   Solemn Mass with Blessing of Palms and
   Procession with Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien
Mass 1:00 pm
Monday
March 29
 

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
March 30

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
March 31
Mass
7:00 am, 8:15 am, 5:30 pm
Holy Thursday
April 1

Reflection from the readings:
  Finding Jesus in dirty feet

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 Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien

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 2

Reflection from the readings:
  What did Jesus do for you?

Morning Prayer
9:00 am in Blessed Sacrament Chapel

Celebration of the Lord's Passion
3:00 pm
with Archbishop Edwin O'Brien

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 3

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 Archbishop Edwin O'Brien

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 4

Reflection from the readings:
  How are you an Easter Christian?

Solemn Easter Sunday Mass
Mass 8:00 am
Mass 9:15 am Contemporary Music
Mass 11:00 am Solemn Choral Liturgy
   with Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden
Mass 1:00 pm


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