Celebrate Holy Week with Pope Benedict on EWTN
Make Holy Week 2008 something to remember. Travel to Rome with EWTN Global Catholic Network to celebrate Holy Week live with Pope Benedict XVI, to Irondale, Ala. with the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word, and to Wash. D.C. with the choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Live coverage will include:
• Solemn Mass of Palm Sunday (4:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. March 16, three hours), live from Rome
• Chrism Mass (4:30 a.m. March 20, two hours), live from Rome
• Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper (12:30 a.m. March 20 and 12 a.m. March 21, two hours), live from Rome
• Choral Meditations and Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper (5:30 p.m. March 20, two hours), live from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
• Celebration of the Lord’s Passion (12 p.m. March 21 and 12 a.m. March 22, two-and-a-half hours), live from Rome
• Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion with the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word (4 p.m. March 21, two hours), live from Our Lady of the Angels Chapel in Irondale, Ala.
• Way of the Cross in Rome (8 p.m. March 21 (90 minutes), pre-taped
• Easter Vigil Mass (4 p.m. March 22 and 12 a.m. March 23, three hours), live from Rome
• Easter Vigil Mass (4 p.m. March 22, 12 a.m. March 23, two-and-a-half hours), live from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
• Solemn Mass of Easter Sunday (5:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. March 23, 90 minutes), live from Rome
• Traditional Easter message and blessing, (7 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. March 23, 60 minutes), live from St. Peter’s Square
• Solemn Mass of Easter Sunday with the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word (8 a.m. and 11 p.m. March 23), live from Our Lady of the Angels Chapel in Irondale.
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