Local Mass Will Join Worldwide Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
March 25 Mass at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Is Timed to Coincide with Vatican Liturgy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Joining with Pope Francis and Bishops around the world, Cardinal Wilton Gregory will celebrate Mass in the Great Upper Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Friday, March 25, in an Act of Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Pope Francis on March 18 asked the world’s bishops to join him in consecrating the warring countries to Mary. After the Holy Father’s weekly Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square March 20, he asked “every community and every believer to join me … in making a solemn act of consecration of humanity, especially of Russia and Ukraine, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that she, the Queen of Peace, may obtain peace for the world.”
Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Friday, March 25, 2022
12 noon ET
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
400 Michigan Avenue NE, Washington, DC
The Mass in Washington, D.C., is timed to coincide with the parallel liturgy being celebrated by Pope Francis at the Vatican, and with similar Acts of Consecration being held worldwide.
The Solemnity of the Annunciation is observed throughout Christianity as when the Archangel Gabriel visited the Virgin Mary to tell her she would give birth to the Son of God.
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