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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250302T120000
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SUMMARY:Solemn Mass and Holy Rosary to Pray for Pope Francis on the 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us at 12:00 Noon on Sunday\, March 2\, 2025\, for the Solemn Mass and recitation of the Holy Rosary to pray for Pope Francis. His Eminence\, Christophe Cardinal Pierre\, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States\, will be the celebrant and homilist at Mass. Immediately following Mass\, Monsignor Walter Rossi\, Rector of the Basilica\, will lead the faithful in praying the Holy Rosary. \nThis special liturgy and prayer for the Holy Father will be livestreamed on www.nationalshrine.org/mass and broadcast live on EWTN.
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/solemn-mass-and-holy-rosary-to-pray-for-pope-francis/
LOCATION:Great Upper Church
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy,Special
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250306
DTSTAMP:20241217T184402Z
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UID:88309-1741132800-1741219199@www.nationalshrine.org
SUMMARY:Ash Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for Mass and the Imposition of Ashes as we enter into the Season of Lent. Ashes will be distributed at all Masses. \nAsh Wednesday\, March 5\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n7:00 a.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n8:00 a.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n12:10 p.m.*\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n2:30 p.m.*\nMisa – Iglesia Superior\n\n\n5:15 p.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n\n*Livestreamed on www.nationalshrine.org/mass. \nConfessions will be heard in the Confessional Chapel from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/ash-wednesday-2025/
LOCATION:The Basilica
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250310
DTSTAMP:20241217T184402Z
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UID:77977-1741478400-1741564799@www.nationalshrine.org
SUMMARY:First Sunday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for the First Sunday of Lent. \nSaturday\, March 8\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n4:30 p.m.\nVigil Mass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n\nSunday\, March 9\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n7:30 a.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n9:00 a.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n10:30 a.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n12 Noon*\nSolemn Mass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n2:30 p.m.*\nMisa – Iglesia Cripta\n\n\n4:00 p.m.*\nSolemn Vespers – Crypt Church\n\n\n4:30 p.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n\n*Livestreamed on www.nationalshrine.org/mass. \nConfessions will be heard on Sunday at the regularly scheduled hours: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Noon)\, 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. (en Español)\, and 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/first-sunday-of-lent-2025/
LOCATION:The Basilica
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250316
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250317
DTSTAMP:20241217T184402Z
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for the Second Sunday of Lent. \nSaturday\, March 15\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n4:30 p.m.\nVigil Mass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n\nSunday\, March 16\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n7:30 a.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n9:00 a.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n10:30 a.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n12 Noon*\nSolemn Mass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n2:30 p.m.*\nMisa – Iglesia Cripta\n\n\n4:00 p.m.*\nSolemn Vespers – Crypt Church\n\n\n4:30 p.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n\n*Livestreamed on www.nationalshrine.org/mass. \nConfessions will be heard on Sunday at the regularly scheduled hours: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Noon)\, 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. (en Español)\, and 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/second-sunday-of-lent-2025/
LOCATION:The Basilica
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250320
DTSTAMP:20250218T024223Z
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SUMMARY:Solemnity of Saint Joseph\, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:Join the Basilica as we celebrate the Solemnity of Saint Joseph\, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The celebration of Mass will take place at the following times: \nTuesday\, March 18\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n5:15 p.m.\nVigil Mass – Crypt Church\n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 19\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n7:00 a.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n8:00 a.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n12:10 p.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n5:15 p.m.\nMass – Crypt Church
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/solemnity-of-saint-joseph-spouse-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary/
LOCATION:Crypt Church
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T171500
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SUMMARY:Heritage Talk: Eucharist and the Missionary Cenacle
DESCRIPTION:Easter Sunday 2024 marked the centennial anniversary of the celebration of the first Public Mass held inside the National Shrine. The celebration of the inauguration of the liturgical life of this grand and noble votive church in honor of Mary\, the Immaculate Conception\, will be celebrated throughout 2024 and 2025. \nFather Gary Banks\, S.T.\, Archivist of the Missionaries of the Holy Trinity\, will offer a talk entitled “Eucharist and the Missionary Cenacle.” We invite you to join us in the Crypt Church following the 5:15 p.m. Mass on Thursday\, March 20\, 2025. \nFollowing the event\, the presentation will be made available for viewing on the National Shrine’s Website and YouTube Channel. \n\nMore About the Speaker:\nReverend Gary Banks is a Missionary Servant of the Most Holy Trinity (ST). He was born in New York City and received his seminary training in Washington\, D.C. After ordination\, Father Gary served a rural route in the priestess South\, in middle Georgia. He was then assigned to missionary work in Puerto Rico and Mexico. Upon his return to the United States\, Father Gary became pastor of an inner-city parish in Los Angeles and associate professor in the Los Angeles and Tijuana Seminaries\, where he helped found the Catechetical Pastoral School for Spanish speakers. His last missionary tour found him back in the rural south\, serving the immigrant communities. \nIn addition to his seminary studies\, Reverend Banks holds a degree from the Pontifical Biblical Institute\, with studies at Sankt Georgen Hochschule\, Frankfurt\, Germany\, l’Institute Catholique of Paris\, the Hebrew University of Mount Scopus\, Israel\, and l’École Biblique of Jerusalem. Father Gary currently serves as an archivist for his congregation and as a researcher for Dr. William L. Portier\, the well-known Catholic historian. You can view the 4th talk of this series\, “Eucharist and Dorothy Day\,” delivered by Dr. Portier on July 20\, 2024\, on our blog. \nMore About the Talk:\nThis presentation\, the twelfth in our Heritage Series\, celebrating the “100 Years of Worship” at the National Shrine\, tells of an American religious movement that converged with the vision and theology of Bishop Shahan and his construction of this National Shrine. \nFather Thomas A. Judge\, CM\, was the founder of a lay apostolic movement that generated two North American religious congregations: the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity for women (1918) and the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity for men (1921). Interestingly\, on September 23\, 1920\, Father Judge came to visit the sisters and ended up at the Foundation Stone Ceremony of the National Shrine. Closely following the teachings of Pope Pius X on Eucharist and Holy Communion\, Father Judge saw the Eucharist as true energizing food\, “the greater eating of His Body\, the greater drinking of His Blood\, so that we never tire of doing good for others.” \nIn 1926\, Father Judge moved his major seminary to Catholic University where it was both the admiration and the scandal of the seminary world – a supposed “religious” house with no priest in charge\, and hearty brothers and sisters\, accompanied by their chickens and roosters! Without a chaplain\, the men and women lived their Eucharistic life between the Crypt Church and the university. Their apostolic spirit readily united them with persons such as Dorothy Day\, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement\, Monsignor Paul Hanley Furfey\, “the unofficial systematic theologian of the Catholic Worker movement\,” Professor Mary Elizabeth Walsh\, who began her career as a research assistant to Furfey\, and many other leaders of the Catholic Social movement of the 1920s and 1930s.  Most of the priests of this early religious congregation received both minor and major orders in the Crypt Church of the National Shrine. James J. Norris\, the personal secretary to Father Judge during those nascent years\, had his roots in the Cenacle movement. He became an international Catholic lay leader and a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Shrine. \nFather Thomas A. Judge\, CM is remembered in a stained-glass window in the Upper Sacristy\, honoring his contribution to the growth and spread of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/heritage-talk-eucharist-and-the-missionary-cenacle/
LOCATION:Crypt Church
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250324
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SUMMARY:Third Sunday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for the Third Sunday of Lent. \nSaturday\, March 22\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n4:30 p.m.\nVigil Mass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n\nSunday\, March 23\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n7:30 a.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n9:00 a.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n10:30 a.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n12 Noon*\nSolemn Mass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n2:30 p.m.*\nMisa – Iglesia Superior\n\n\n4:00 p.m.*\nSolemn Vespers – Great Upper Church\n\n\n4:30 p.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n\n*Livestreamed on www.nationalshrine.org/mass. \nConfessions will be heard on Sunday at the regularly scheduled hours: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Noon)\, 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. (en Español)\, and 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/third-sunday-of-lent-2025/
LOCATION:The Basilica
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250326
DTSTAMP:20250319T202835Z
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UID:88328-1742860800-1742947199@www.nationalshrine.org
SUMMARY:Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:Join the Basilica as we celebrate the Solemnity of The Annunciation of the Lord. The celebration of Mass will take place at the following times: \nMonday\, March 24\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n5:15 p.m.\nVigil Mass – Crypt Church\n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 25\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n7:00 a.m.\nCrypt Church\n\n\n8:00 a.m.\nCrypt Church\n\n\n12:10 p.m.\nCrypt Church\n\n\n5:15 p.m.\nCrypt Church\n\n\n\nConfessions will be heard at the regularly scheduled hours: 9:00 a.m. – 12 Noon\, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/solemnity-of-the-annunciation-of-the-lord-2025/
LOCATION:Crypt Church
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250330
DTSTAMP:20250319T200327Z
CREATED:20241018T215954Z
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UID:88330-1743033600-1743292799@www.nationalshrine.org
SUMMARY:24 Hours for the Lord: 40 Hours Devotion
DESCRIPTION:In observance of Pope Francis’ annual Lenten initiative “24 Hours for the Lord\,” the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will once again host 40 Hours Devotion. \nThe Basilica’s “24 Hours for the Lord: 40 Hours Devotion” Lenten observance will begin with an Opening Mass on Thursday\, March 27\, at 5:15 p.m.* His Eminence Christophe Cardinal Pierre\, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States\, will celebrate the Opening Mass. The observance will conclude with a Closing Mass celebrated by His Eminence Robert Cardinal McElroy\, Archbishop of Washington\, on Saturday\, March 29\, at 4:30 p.m.* \nAfter the Opening Mass\, Adoration will take place continuously\, to include overnight hours\, through the Closing Mass on Saturday\, March 29\, at 4:30 p.m. The Closing Mass will conclude with a Eucharistic Procession through the Great Upper Church followed by Solemn Benediction. \nThe Sacrament of Reconciliation will be available during the Basilica’s regularly scheduled hours in the Chapel of Our Lady of Hostyn\, the Confessional Chapel. \nThe faithful are invited to spend time in Adoration before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament during the National Shrine’s 40 Hours Devotion in observance of Pope Francis’ “24 Hours for the Lord” initiative. \n*Livestreamed on www.nationalshrine.org/mass and broadcast on EWTN.
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/24-hours-for-the-lord-40-hours-devotion-2025/
LOCATION:Great Upper Church
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250330
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250331
DTSTAMP:20241217T184401Z
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SUMMARY:Fourth Sunday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for the Fourth Sunday of Lent. \nSaturday\, March 29\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n4:30 p.m.\nClosing Mass of 24 Hours for the Lord: 40 Hours Devotion – Great Upper Church\n\n\n\nSunday\, March 30\n\n\n\nTime:\nLocation and additional information:\n\n\n7:30 a.m.\nMass – Crypt Church\n\n\n9:00 a.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n10:30 a.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n12 Noon*\nSolemn Mass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n2:30 p.m.*\nMisa – Iglesia Superior\n\n\n4:00 p.m.*\nSolemn Vespers – Great Upper Church\n\n\n4:30 p.m.\nMass – Great Upper Church\n\n\n\n*Livestreamed on www.nationalshrine.org/mass. \nConfessions will be heard on Sunday at the regularly scheduled hours: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Noon)\, 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. (en Español)\, and 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
URL:https://www.nationalshrine.org/event/fourth-sunday-of-lent-2025/
LOCATION:The Basilica
CATEGORIES:All Events,Liturgy
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