During Holy Week, Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Washington participate in sacred liturgies remembering the death of Christ and celebrating His resurrection on Easter Sunday. This year, Holy Week and Easter liturgies celebrated by Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory will be streamed online on the Archdiocese of Washington’s YouTube channel. The Archdiocese of Washington’s website at adw.org has a special web page at https://adw.org/media-events/events/holy-week/ with links to those livestreamed Holy Week and Easter liturgies. The web page also includes links to guides for Scripture readings, reflection, prayer and activities for those liturgies.
Then-Archbishop Gregory blesses palms during the livestreamed Palm Sunday Mass on April 5, 2020 at St. Matthew's Cathedral. (CS photo/Andrew Biraj)
Cardinal Gregory’s livestreamed Mass for Palm Sunday, March 28, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., will begin with the blessing of the palms at 9:45 a.m., followed by Mass at 10 a.m.
The cardinal’s Chrism Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral to commemorate the founding of the priesthood will be livestreamed at 2 p.m. Monday March 29.
Cardinal Gregory’s Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper will be livestreamed from the cathedral at 5:30 p.m. Thursday April 1.
A livestream of a reflection on the Lord’s Passion, “The Seven Last Words of Christ” will begin at noon at on Good Friday April 2 at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, followed by Cardinal Gregory’s Liturgy of the Passion of the Lord at 1 p.m.
In a photo from the Easter Vigil at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in April 2020, then-Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory lights the paschal candle held by Dominican Brother Justin Bulger. That vigil was livestreamed during coronavirus safety precautions, which continue in Catholic churches throughout the Archdiocese of Washington. (CNS photo/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard)
On Holy Saturday April 3, Cardinal Gregory will celebrate a livestreamed Easter Vigil at St. Matthew’s Cathedral at 8 p.m.
Then on Easter Sunday April 4, the cardinal will celebrate a livestreamed Mass at the cathedral at 9 a.m. Later on Easter Sunday, Cardinal Gregory will celebrate a noon Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception that will be televised on the Eternal Word Television Network and livestreamed on the basilica’s YouTube channel that can be linked through the National Shrine’s website at www.nationalshrine.org.
Easter TV Mass scheduled for April 4
The Sunday TV Mass is a nearly 70-year-old ministry of the Archdiocese of Washington that this past year reached tens of thousands of new homebound viewers who watched it for the first time due to the pandemic. Cardinal Wilton Gregory will continue this tradition as the celebrant and homilist for the special one hour broadcast of the Sunday TV Mass on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021 from the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
The Easter Mass will air locally on WDCW TV50 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. On cable, CW50 can be found on Verizon (Ch 3), RCN (Ch 15) and Comcast in Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County (Ch 23) and Prince George’s County and Southern Maryland (Ch 3). The Easter Sunday TV Mass can also be viewed throughout the day on the Archdiocese of Washington website (adw.org/parishes-masses/sunday-tv-mass) and the basilica’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/user/marysshrine).
