Join us at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America on March 20, and every Friday of Lent, at 3 p.m. for the Stations of the Cross. At each of the fourteen stations, we prayerfully memorialize and visualize the journey of Christ to the Cross. To be held indoors. Every Friday of Lent at [...]
As we approach Palm Sunday, you are invited to honor or remember a loved one by pre-ordering lilies or palm crosses through the Franciscan Monastery Garden Guild . Donated flowers will be placed in our church, and the friars will remember the honorees in their prayers. Please place your order by March 25. Pre-orders can be [...]
As we approach Palm Sunday, you are invited to honor or remember a loved one by pre-ordering lilies or palm crosses through the Franciscan Monastery Garden Guild . Donated flowers will be placed in our church, and the friars will remember the honorees in their prayers. Please place your order by March 25. Pre-orders can be [...]
Palm Sunday Mass - 11 am at the Franciscan Monastery main church
Mass in Coena Domini at 7:30 pm, followed by a procession to the Grotto of Gethsemane. The church will remain open until midnight for personal adoration.
Stations of the Cross in the lower gardens at 3:00 pm; Passion of the Lord at 3:45 pm in the church
This service is a solemn reenactment of The Burial of Christ and is very similar to the ceremony reenacted each year on Good Friday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. There are very few places outside of the Holy Land where this ceremony is performed. The friars process through the church with a figure of the [...]
Holy Saturday, April 4: Easter Vigil Mass at 7:30 pm.
Easter, April 5: Sunrise Mass at 6:00 am in the lower gardens.
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