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Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood Catholic Cathedral
Easter Mass Times
Sunday 13 April Palm Sunday
Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses today.
18.00 (Saturday) Vigil Mass
08.00 Mass
09.30 Morning Prayer in the Lady Chapel
10.00 Confessions until 12.35
10.00 Mass with Cantor
11.30 Solemn Mass and Procession with Choir Livestreamed
16.00 Solemn Vespers and Benediction with Choir
17.00 Confessions until 18.45
17.30 Mass with Cantor
19.00 Mass
The Cathedral opens at 07.30 and closes after the 19.00 Mass.
Monday 14 April
07.35 Morning Prayer in the Lady Chapel
08.00 Mass
10.30 Latin Mass
11.00 Confessions until 13.00
12.30 Mass Livestreamed
16.00 Confessions until 18.00
17.00 Sung Vespers in the Lady Chapel
17.30 Mass with Choir
The Cathedral opens at 07.30 and closes after the 17.30 Mass.
Tuesday 15 April
07.35 Morning Prayer in the Lady Chapel
08.00 Mass
12.00 Chrism Mass Livestreamed
14.00 Confessions until 18.00
17.00 Evening Prayer in the Lady Chapel
17.30 Mass
The Cathedral opens at 07.30 and closes after the 17.30 Mass. Please note that there are no Confessions in the morning, to allow for the Chrism Mass.
Wednesday 16 April
07.35 Morning Prayer in the Lady Chapel
08.00 Mass
10.30 Latin Mass
11.00 Confessions until 13.00
12.30 Mass Livestreamed
16.00 Confessions until 18.00
17.00 Evening Prayer in the Lady Chapel
17.30 Mass with Choir
The Cathedral opens at 07.30 and closes after the 17.30 Mass.
Thursday 17 April Maundy Thursday
10.00 Morning Prayer in the Lady Chapel
11.00 Confessions until 17.00
18.00 Mass of the Lords Supper with Choir Livestreamed
23.45 Compline
The Cathedral opens at 09.00 and closes at Midnight.
Friday 18 April Good Friday
10.00 Office of Readings with Choir
11.00 Confessions until 14.00
15.00 Solemn Liturgy of the Passion with Choir Livestreamed
18.30 Stations of the Cross
The Cathedral opens at 09.00 and closes at 20.00.
Saturday 19 April Holy Saturday
10.00 Office of Readings with Choir
11.00 Confessions until 16.00
20.30 The Easter Vigil with Choir Livestreamed
The Cathedral opens at 09.00 and closes at 17.30, reopens at 19.30 and closes at 22.30.
Sunday 20 April Easter Day
08.00 Mass
09.30 Morning Prayer in the Lady Chapel
10.00 Mass with Cantor
10.30 Confessions until 12.00
12.00 Solemn Mass with Choir Livestreamed
16.00 Solemn Vespers and Benediction with Choir
17.30 Mass with Cantor
The Cathedral opens at 07.30 and closes after the 17.30 Mass.
Monday 21 April to Friday 25 April within the Easter Octave
10.00 Morning Prayer in the Lady Chapel
10.30 Mass in English
11.30 Confessions until 12.30
12.30 Mass Livestreamed
17.00 Evening Prayer in the Lady Chapel
17.30 Mass
Churches
Ashley Place, Westminster, London, SW1P 1QW
People
Dean
Contact
| Correspondence Address | Westminster Cathedral Clergy House Cathedral Clergy House 42 Francis Street Westminster London SW1P 1QW |
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| Phone | 0207 798 9055 |
| Click here to email Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood Catholic Cathedral | |
 www.westminstercathedral.org.uk/ |
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Nearest Catholic Schools
Westminster Cathedral Choir School School, Ambrosden Avenue, London, London, SW1P 1QH, UK
Nearest Catholic Parishes/Churches
Holy Apostles Church, 47 Cumberland Street, Pimlico, London, SW1V 4LY, UK
St Anne Church, 363 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London, SE11 5QY, UK
St Mary`s Church, Cadogan Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 2QR, UK
The Immaculate Conception Church, 114 Mount Street, Westminster, London, W1K 3AH, UK
Our Lady Of The Assumption And St Gregory Church, 24 Golden Square, Westminster, London, W1F 9JR, UK
Nearest Schools and Churches are calculated `as the crow flies` and may not be the closest or easiest when travelling.
Catholic Groups/Organisations/Religious Orders
About Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood Catholic Cathedral
Bishops' Conference: Bishops` Conference of England and Wales (Cymru)
Diocese: Archdiocese of Westminster
Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood
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Dates: 1894
Useful Definitions of the Structures in the Catholic Church
What is a Catholic Bishops' Conference?
An episcopal conference, sometimes called a conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. ... Individual bishops do not relinquish their immediate authority for the governance of their respective dioceses to the conference (Wikipedia).
What is an Archdiocese?
Dioceses ruled by an archbishop are commonly referred to as archdioceses; most are metropolitan sees, being placed at the head of an ecclesiastical province. A few are suffragans of a metropolitan see or are directly subject to the Holy See.
The term 'archdiocese' is not found in Canon Law, with the terms "diocese" and "episcopal see" being applicable to the area under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of any bishop.[8] If the title of archbishop is granted on personal grounds to a diocesan bishop, his diocese does not thereby become an archdiocese (Wikipedia).
What is a Diocese?
The group of churches that a bishop supervises is known as a diocese. Typically, a diocese is divided into parishes that are each overseen by a priest.
The original dioceses, in ancient Rome, were political rather than religious. Rome was divided into dioceses, each of which was made up of many provinces. After Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th century, the term gradually came to refer to religious districts. The Catholic Church has almost 3,000 dioceses. The Greek root of diocese is dioikesis, "government, administration, or province." (Vocabulary.com).
As of April 2020, in the Catholic Church there are 2,898 regular dioceses: 1 papal see, 649 archdioceses (including 9 patriarchates, 4 major archdioceses, 560 metropolitan archdioceses, 76 single archdioceses) (Wikipedia).
What is the difference between a Diocese and an Archdiocese?
Each diocese is within a Province - a group of Dioceses - the Archdiocese is the main Diocese within that Diocese. The bishop of that Archdiocese is therefore automatically an Archbishop. If a bishop has been made an Archbishop personally is referred to as an Archbishop but it does not make their Diocese an Archdiocese.
What is a Deanery?
A subdivision of a diocese, consisting of a number parishes, over which presides a dean appointed by a bishop. The duty of the dean is to watch over the clergy of the deanery, to see that they fulfill the orders of the bishop, and observe the liturgical and canon laws. He summons the conference of the deanery and presides at it. Periodically he makes a report to the bishop on conditions in the deanery.www.catholicculture.org
What is a Parish?
In the Roman Catholic Church, a parish (Latin: parochia) is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: parochus), under the authority of the diocesan bishop. It is the lowest ecclesiastical subdivision in the Catholic episcopal polity, and the primary constituent unit of a diocese. In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, parishes are constituted under cc. 515–552, entitled "Parishes, Pastors, and Parochial Vicars." Wikipedia
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