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March 2018
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.
Find out more »Tenebrae at Sacred Heart (Camp Washington)
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. Until 1955 it was celebrated on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday at almost every Catholic…
Find out more »Holy Thursday at the Cathedral
Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr will celebrate Holy Thursday Mass; music by the Cathedral Choir.
Find out more »St. John Passion Play at Mount St. Joe
The St. John Passion Play has been performed every year since 2018, when parishioners of St. John (A Franciscan parish in Over-the-Rhine) promised to put it on every year in thanksgiving for the safety of the parish’s soldiers fighting in Europe. The parish has been gone sinee 1955 but a coalition of Catholics and Protestants from around the region mount the play every year. There is no charge, but a collection will be taken to help keep the play going. Repeats…
Find out more »“Pray the Steps” at Holy Cross-Immaculata (Mt. Adams)
For more than 175 years people have walked the steps to Holy Cross-Immaculata Church on Good Friday while praying the rosary (or other prayers). Bishop Joseph R. Binzer will bless the steps at one minute after midnight; the church will be open for prayer for 24 hours and for confession all day.Donuts and coffee 6 a.m.- 1 p.m.; pizza and Kona Ice available throughout the day; fish fry 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Find out more »Tenebrae at Sacred Heart (Camp Washington)
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. Until 1955 it was celebrated on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday at almost every Catholic…
Find out more »Good Friday Cross Walk in Cincinnati
A one-day track of the annual Regnum Christi Holy Week Mission, the Cross Walk is a tradition in cities around the world. Each city's walk is different, but features carrying a wooden cross and asking people to they meet if they can pray for them as they walk. Cincinnati's walk begins at the cathedral and ends at Holy Cross-Immaculata in Mount Adams, where the group eats lunch, attends the Good Friday liturgy, and then "prays the steps" before returning to…
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