Upcoming Special Days and Events
First Saturdays Devotion
Adoration & Confession
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Mass 12:00 PM First Saturdays Devotions following Mass “Look my daughter, at My Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce Me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console Me, and announce in My Name that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with all graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep Me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to Me.” -Our Lady to Sr. Lucia |
Palm Sunday
Sunday, April 13 Adoration & Confession (St. Mary's Glass Chapel) 10:30 AM –11:30 AM Mass (St. Mary's Glass Chapel) 12:00 PM 2:00 PM (Spanish) Stations of the Cross following each Mass “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass. I will cut off the chariot from E′phraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth." –Zechariah 9:9-10 |
Good Friday
Friday, April 18 Confessions: 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM Stations of the Cross: 12:00 PM Spanish Stations of the Cross: 1:00 PM Sermon of the Seven Last Words: (St. Mary's Glass Chapel) 1:30 PM The Passion of the Lord: (St. Mary's Glass Chapel) 3:00 PM Begin Divine Mercy Novena “The death of the Lord our God should not be a cause of shame for us; rather, it should be our greatest hope, our greatest glory. In taking upon himself the death that he found in us, he has most faithfully promised to give us life in him, such as we cannot have of ourselves.” — St. Augustine |
Holy Saturday
Saturday, April 19 Seven Sorrows of Mary Prayer Walk: 9:00 AM (Bilingual) NO MASS “Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great stillness because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and has raised up all who have slept since the world began . . . ‘I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead.’ ” –Liturgy of the Hours, Matins for Holy Saturday, from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday |
Easter Sunday
Sunday, April 20 Ecumenical Service (St. Mary's Glass Chapel) 6:30 AM Mass (St. Mary's Glass Chapel) 8:00 AM Adoration & Confession (St. Mary's Glass Chapel) 10:30 AM –11:30 AM Mass (Grotto Cave, Weather Pending) 12:00 PM 2:00 PM (Spanish) Divine Mercy Novena and Rosary following each Mass "But the greatest of all [feast days] is Easter Day, the day of the Lord’s Resurrection, because today assurance was given to us to obtain eternal and immortal life in soul and body. Christ gave it to us through his resurrection, which is the cause and the assurance of our resurrection.” — St. Vincent Ferrer |
Divine Mercy Sunday
Sunday, April 27 Adoration & Confession 10:45 AM –11:45 AM Mass (Grotto Cave, Weather Pending) 12:00 PM 2:00 PM (Spanish) Divine Mercy Chaplet and Rosary following each Mass “I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy. The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. On that day all the divine floodgates through which grace flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet.” —St. Faustina’s Diary 699 |
National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes
on the campus of Mount St. Mary's University 16330 Grotto Road Emmitsburg, MD 21727 Phone: 301-447-5318 MASS: Monday–Friday 11:00 AM Saturday 12:00 PM Sunday (English) 12:00 PM Sunday (Español) 2:00 PM ADORATION: Saturday 10:45 AM–11:45 AM Sunday 10:45 AM–11:45 AM CONFESSION: Saturday 10:45 AM–11:45 AM Sunday 10:45 AM–11:45 AM FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION: After 12:00 PM Mass every First Saturday |