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2019 Lenten Reflection Series: Christ has Died, Christ is Risen, Christ will Come Again Reverend Louis Studer, OMI Provincial The U.S. Province of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

All are welcome to attend our Palm Sunday, Holy Week & Easter events. There are no tickets or reservations required.

“One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: to dwell in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, to gaze upon the Lord’s beauty, to visit his temple.”-Psalm 27 #NationalShrine

Join us on Sunday, April 14th at 12 Noon for Solemn Mass of the Lord's Passion on Palm Sunday.

We invite you to join us on Wednesday, April 10, for the next reflection in our Lenten Reflection Series: “Christ has Died, Christ is Risen, Christ will Come Again”.

"O United Hearts of Jesus and Mary, You are all grace, all mercy, all love. Let my heart be joined to Yours, so that my every need is present in Your United Hearts." #NationalShrine

We invite you to join us for our final Lenten Reflection on Wednesday, April 10th. Father Louis Studer, OMI will give his reflection following the 5:15pm Mass. #NationalShrine #Lent2019

Make plans to join us during Holy Week as we commemorate the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ in the most solemn of the Catholic Church’s annual liturgies. All are welcome.

2019 Lenten Reflection Series: The Victory Remains with Love. Sister Mary Anne Zuberbueler, O.P.

2019 Lenten Reflection Series: The Purpose of Penance. Very Rev. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

"Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Note it. Read it."- Saint Augustine #NationalShrine #CherryBlossomsDC #Creation

The season of Lent is a time to reflect on the solemnity of the Lord’s sacrifice and prepare our hearts for the celebration of Easter. During the Lenten season, the Basilica has two series of weekly reflections: a series of videos from our priests here at the Basilica, as well as a series of featured speakers held in the Crypt Church. Tonight’s reflection, “The Victory Remains with Love”, will follow the regularly scheduled 5:15 p.m. Mass in the Crypt Church.

“O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption.” #NationalShrine #24HoursfortheLord #40HoursDevotion #ClosingMass

We invite you to join us on Saturday, March 30th for the Closing Mass of the 24 Hours for the Lord: 40 Hours Devotion. Mass will be broadcast live at 5:15pm in the Great Upper Church.

Join us tonight for the Closing Mass of “24 Hours for the Lord”. As Pope Francis says in his Apostolic Letter “Misericordia et Misera”: “The Sacrament of Reconciliation needs to rediscover its central place in the Christian life … a favorable occasion for this could be 24 Hours for the Lord, a celebration held in proximity to the Fourth Sunday of Lent. This initiative, already in place in many dioceses, has great pastoral value in encouraging a more fervent experience of the Sacrament of Confession.”

We invite you to participate in Pope Francis’ invitation to celebrate “24 Hours for the Lord” and the Basilica’s Forty Hours Devotion, which are being held to foster devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament and assist the faithful in the pilgrimage of Lent. For more information, please visit www.nationalshrine.org/lent #NationalShrine #24HoursfortheLord #40HoursDevotion

Reverend Monsignor Walter R. Rossi extends a virtual welcome to the new Basilica website: “On behalf of our clergy, religious, staff and volunteers of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, we hope that your visit online will inspire you to plan a visit onsite! We look forward to welcoming you!”

“The Lord invites us to His magnificent presence. It is important to take time in these days to hear the voice of the Lord who whispers His love for us, who calls us to a deeper union with Him.”-Archbishop Broglio #NationalShrine #Lent2019 #24HoursfortheLord #40HoursDevotion

Join us on Thursday, March 28th at 5:15pm for the Opening Mass of the 24 Hours for the Lord: 40 Hours Devotion

In observance of “24 Hours for the Lord,” the Lenten initiative launched by Pope Francis, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will host 40 Hours Devotion from March 28 – 30, 2019. We begin tonight with an Opening Mass at 5:15 p.m.

2019 Lenten Reflection Series: Christ has Died, Christ is Risen, Christ will Come Again Reverend Louis Studer, OMI Provincial The U.S. Province of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Join us on Sunday, April 14th at 12 Noon for Solemn Mass of the Lord's Passion on Palm Sunday.

2019 Lenten Reflection Series: The Victory Remains with Love. Sister Mary Anne Zuberbueler, O.P.

2019 Lenten Reflection Series: The Purpose of Penance. Very Rev. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

We invite you to join us on Saturday, March 30th for the Closing Mass of the 24 Hours for the Lord: 40 Hours Devotion. Mass will be broadcast live at 5:15pm in the Great Upper Church.

Join us on Thursday, March 28th at 5:15pm for the Opening Mass of the 24 Hours for the Lord: 40 Hours Devotion

2019 Lenten Reflection Series: The Purpose of Penance. Very Rev. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

2019 Lenten Reflection Series: Prayer During the Season of Lent Rev. Dr. Marco Benini Visiting Professor of Liturgical Studies The Catholic University of America

Join us live at 12:10pm on Tuesday, January 29th for The Catholic University Mass on the Patronal Feast Day of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Join us on Friday, January 18th at 7:30am for the Closing Mass of the Solemn Prayer Vigil for Life.