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I hope this message finds you and your family staying well during this challenging time. I want to assure you of my prayers for a blessed Holy Week and Easter. May it be a time of grace and blessing for all of us.
As I mentioned in my previous video, while we are not having any public gatherings at The Basilica, we continue to connect with people via conference call, Facebook and Zoom.
We have been sent out over 500 check-in emails to parish volunteers. People seem very appreciative of this outreach and often reply with good wishes for our staff. If you or someone you know would like to receive one of these emails, please let us know.
Our downtown Minneapolis interfaith community leaders shared a message of one voice and shared hope in virtual prayer service.
Last Friday, we sent an email to all of our parishioners with ideas about ways to celebrate Holy Week at home. We have compiled tools and resources for you to plan and prepare for Holy Week in your home.
During Holy Week we will be livestreaming all of our services on mary.org and facebook.com/BasilicaMpls including Mass at 9:30 on Easter Sunday with Archbishop Hebda. Easter Mass will also be broadcast on 830 WCCO Radio.
We would like to hear from you, though, if you have questions, concerns or suggestions to better serve you. We may not be able to implement all your suggestions, or respond to all your questions and concerns, but we will do our very best.
We know this is a challenging time financially for everyone. If you are able to continue to support The Basilica financially, particularly this Easter, we thank you. You may make a gift online at mary.org/donate.
If you find yourself needing financial support, we invite you to connect with our St. Vincent de Paul Ministry.
Let us pray: Father, your beloved Son Jesus brought your healing love to our world. We pray that Christ, the light of the world, will sustain us always in faith, hope, and love. And may the light of faith guide and comfort us at this time. And may we pray for and with each other, that together, we might find our way though these challenging times. Amen.
Minneapolis interfaith community leaders share a message of one voice and shared hope.
"God’s first language is silence. Everything else is a translation.
Faith is opening and surrendering to God. The spiritual Journey does not require going anywhere because God is already with us and in us.”
Fr. Thomas Keating
Please join us in celebrating Holy Week at Home this year. We have compiled tools and resources for you to plan and prepare for Holy Week in your home. Combining what you can do at home with what we can bring to you via live stream we hope to make this Holy Week memorable and meaningful. Please contact us with questions or suggestions.
Holy Week Schedule:
To live stream, click here or visit facebook.com/BasilicaMpls.
Holy Thursday (April 9)
9:15am Morning Prayer
12:00Noon Mass
7:00pm Celebration of the Lord’s Supper*
Good Friday (April 10)
9:15am Morning Prayer
12:00Noon Station of the Cross
3:00pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion*
7:00pm Tenebrae*
Holy Saturday (April 11)
9:15am Morning Prayer
12Noon Midday Prayer
7:00pm Celebration of the Resurrection*
Easter Sunday (April 12)
9:30am Solemn Eucharist with Archbishop Bernard Hebda*
*ASL interpreted
Light of Faith
Basilica Community,
I hope this message finds you and your family staying well during this challenging time. As you know, we have suspended all public Masses and gatherings; however we are still connecting via conference call, Facebook, and Zoom.
We are live streaming our daily Masses at facebook.com/BasilicaMpls. The videos are available at here after each Mass.
We will be live streaming our Holy Week services beginning with 9:30am Mass on Palm Sunday. Easter Mass with Archbishop Hebda at 9:30am will also be broadcast on 830 WCCO Radio.
We will be sending an email to all of our parishioners with ideas about ways to celebrate Holy Week at home.
We would like to hear from you, please let us know if you have questions, concerns, or suggestions to better serve you. We may not be able to implement all your suggestions, or respond to all your questions and concerns, but we will do our very best.
We know this is a challenging time financially for everyone. If you are able to continue to support The Basilica financially, we thank you. You may make a gift online at mary.org/donate.
If you find yourself needing financial support, we invite you to connect with our St. Vincent de Paul Ministry.
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In 2013 Pope Francis issued his first encyclical: “Lumen Fidei: Light of Faith.” In that encyclical Pope Francis said:
“Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but rather a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey. To those who suffer, God does not provide arguments which explain everything; rather, his response is that of an accompanying presence, and a history of goodness which touches every story of suffering and opens up a ray of light.”
May the light of faith guide and comfort us at this time. And may we pray for and with each other, that together, we might find our way though these challenging times.
Pope Francis invites everyone to join him on Friday, March 27 in prayer for the end to the coronavirus pandemic and for a special Urbi et Orbi blessing for the City and for the World. The prayer and blessing will be broadcast by Vatican News at 12:00pmCDT.
Stay Home. Stay Safe. Stay Connected.
A message from Fr. John Bauer, Pastor
Basilica Community,
I hope you and your families are staying well. As you know, we have suspended all public Masses and gatherings; however we are still connecting via conference call, Facebook, and Zoom.
We are live streaming Mass Monday-Friday at noon and Sundays at 9:30am at facebook.com/BasilicaMpls. The videos are available at here after each Mass.
We are also posting Stations of the Cross and Vespers. Many people have let us know how much they appreciate having access to these Basilica services.
Please let us know if you have questions, concerns, or suggestions to better serve you.
We know this is a challenging time financially for everyone. If you are able to continue to support The Basilica financially, we thank you. You may make a gift online at mary.org/donate.
If you find yourself needing financial support, we invite you to connect with our St. Vincent de Paul Ministry.
Together, we will get though these challenging times. The threat of the Coronavirus has forced us to acknowledge that we need each other. As a community of faith we need to look after each other, to care for each other, to respond to the needs of each other, and perhaps most importantly to pray for each other.
Our newest Icon at The Basilica is Mary Untier of Knots. I would like to close today with a prayer to Mary, modeled after a prayer of Pope Francis.
Holy Mother of God and our Mother, to you who untie with a motherly heart the knots in our lives, we pray to you to receive into your hands all those impacted by the Coronavirus.
Through your intercession and your example deliver us from all evil. Untie the knots that prevent us from being united with God, so that free from sin may find God in all things, may have our hearts placed in him, and my serve God always in our brothers and sisters. Amen.
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