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March 2018
Sacred Heart Palm Sunday Italian Dinner
A tradition for more than 100 years! Sit-down dinners begin at noon; take-out sales at 10 am. A twice-a-year tradition for people from around the city (there’s a Fall Dinner as well) it features hand-made ravioli and meatballs, made from authentic Northern Italian recipes, to eat in or carry out. Volunteers spend days making vats of sauce, and hundreds of thousands of spinach and cheese ravioli squares, and meatballs by the tens of thousands. Wear comfortable shoes: The lines stretch down the…
Find out more »40 Days for Life Dayton Closing Prayer
40 Days for Life Dayton will end its spring campaign Palm Sunday. Ohio Rep. Niraj Antani will speak.
Find out more »Mount Auburn Brass Fellowship Concert at St. William
The Mount Auburn Brass Fellowship (Gary Johnston, conductor) strives "to unearth the rich literature of over 400 years of brass choir music." The Palm Sunday concert is an opportunity to hear beautiful music in a beautiful space. No fee but a free will offering will be gratefully accepted.
Find out more »40 Days for Life Cincinnati Closing Prayer/Way of the Cross
The 2018 Spring 40 Days for Life campaign ends on Palm Sunday. Deacon Mark Machuga, Director of the Office of the Diaconate, Archdiocese of Cincinnati will speak and lead a "Way of the Cross for Victims of Abortion." This blend of the final prayer with the traditional Way of the Cross (processing from Holy Name to the abortion center) will return for the second year. Feel free to bring palms to carry in the procession; seven men will carry crosses commemorating…
Find out more »Penance Service at St. Raphael
Lenten penance service; all welcome.
Find out more »Chrism Mass
All welcome for this annual Mass, at which oils will be blessed for every parish in the archdiocese. Priests and deacons from throughout the archdiocese will participate in this special liturgy.
Find out more »Penance Service with Exposition at St. Matthias
All welcome to this service for Confession and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
Find out more »Holy Week Missions with Regnum Christi Begin
March 28-31 Regnum Christi invites all to the Cincinnati Holy Week Mission, one of many being held around the world. Includes prayer, Mass, mission/volunteer work, more. Wednesday Evening: Check-in, Commissioning Mass and Social at 6:30 p.m. at Royalmont Academy; Holy Thursday: Mercy Missions; Lord's Supper; Holy Hour; Good Friday: Traditional "Good Friday Cross Walk" through the streets of Cincinnati to Mount Adams; Holy Saturday: Mercy Missions; pick-up after lunch at Cathedral. Participants also welcome to stay for Easter Vigil. Separate groups…
Find out more »Tenebrae at the Cathedral
The Ancient Office of Tenebrae is one of the best-attended events of the year at the cathedral. It features Gregorian chants and other choral music of Holy Week sung by the Choir of Saint Peter in Chains Cathedral. "Tenebrae" is a Latin word meaning “shadows” or “darkness.” It designates a special Holy Week liturgy introducing the sacred Tritium: Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. The service consists of the Psalms, reading of Scripture, the chanting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah,…
Find out more »Tenebrae at St. John the Baptist (Dry Ridge)
Tenebrae ("shadows") is an ancient service celebrated for Holy Week celebrated in a church lit only by candles held in a special, 15-candle holder called a hearse. As the service continues, the candles are extinguished one by one, until the church is dark and the choir and priests make a loud noise ("strepidus") meant to recall the earthquake that took place at Christ's death.
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