Holy Week at St. John Cantius, Chicago

All masses are said ad orientem.

Wednesday, March 19 - Wednesday of Holy Week

6:00 AM - Matins & Lauds (Ordinary Form)
6:30 AM - Low Mass (Extraordinary Form)
11:45 AM - Sext (Ordinary Form)

7:30 AM - Mass in English (Ordinary Form)

7:00 – 9:30 PM - Confessions

7:30 PM - Tenebrae (Extraordinary Form) - Music: Lamentations and Responsories, Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 – 1611); Benedictus, Jacob Handl (1550 – 1591); Christus Factus Est, Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger (1839 – 1901); Miserere Mei, Gregorio Allegri (1582 – 1652), St. Cecilia Choir.

Thursday, March 20 - Holy Thursday

8:30 AM - Tenebrae (Extraordinary Form)
11:45 AM - Sext (Ordinary Form)
4:30 PM - Solemn Vespers (Ordinary Form)

7:00 PM - Latin Mass (Ordinary Form)- Music: Missa "Che Fe Oggi Il Miosole," Gregorio Allegri (1582 – 1652); Ubi Caritas, Imant Raminsh (b. 1943); Hoc Corpus, Melchior Robledo (1510 – 1587); Pange Lingua Gloriosi, Jachet de Mantua (1483 – 1559), St. Cecilia Choir.

Confessions after Mass, and Adoration until midnight

11:45 PM - Compline (Extraordinary Form)


Friday, March 21 - Good Friday

8:30 AM - Tenebrae (Extraordinary Form)
11:45 AM - Sext (Ordinary Form)

2:30 - 6:30 PM - Confessions

3:00 PM Solemn Liturgical Services - Music: St. John Passion, Anon., Mexican 16th -century; Tenebrae Factae Sunt, Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963), Improperia, Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 – 1611); Crux Fidelis, Domenico Bartolucci (b. 1918); Adoramus Te, Jesu Christe à 8, Jacob Handl (1550 – 1591); Vexilla Regis, Anton Bruckner (1824 – 1896), St. Cecilia Choir.

6:00 PM - Novena to the Divine Mercy

Saturday, March 22 - Holy Saturday

8:30 AM - Tenebrae (Extraordinary Form)
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Blessing of Easter Baskets/Poswiecenie Pokarmow

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Confessions

3:00 PM - Novena to the Divine Mercy

10:00 PM - Solemn Vigil of Easter and Pontifical Mass (Ordinary Form), Bishop Joseph Perry, Celebrant. Music: Missa Super Congratulamini Mihi, Orlando Lassus (1532 – 1594); Vidi Aquam, Michael Haller (1840 – 1915); Alleluia, in resurrectione tua, Jacob Handl (1550 – 1591); Congratulamini Mihi, Thomas Crequillon (d. 1557), St. Cecilia Choir.

Sunday, March 23 - Easter

6:30 AM - Lauds (Ordinary Form)

7:30 AM - Low Mass (Extraordinary Form)

9:00 AM - Solemn Mass in English (Ordinary Form)

10:30 AM - Solemn Mass in Latin (Ordinary Form) - Music: Missa Paschale, Heinrich Isaac (1450 – 1517); Jesus Junxit Se, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 – 1594); Regina Caeli, Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500 – 1553), St. Cecilia Choir. Chorale-Fantasia on Christ Lay in Death's Strong Bands, Franz Tunder (1614 – 1667); Con molto maestoso (Organ Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 65), Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847).

12:30 PM - Solemn High Mass (Extraordinary Form) - Music: Mass in B-flat, D. 324, Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828); Regina Caeli, K. 276, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791); Laudate caeli Dominum, Adolf Hasse (1600 – 1749), Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Arr. Rev. Scott Haynes, S.J.C. (b. 1971); Church Sonata in C, K 263, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791), Resurrection Choir and Orchestra.

2:00 PM - Novena to the Divine Mercy

2:15 PM - Solemn Vespers and Benediction (Ordinary Form)