Join the Old St. Patrick's community for Lenten programming that will help you prepare prayerfully for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

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​Holy Week Schedule 2023

Palm Sunday - April 2nd

• 7AM in church, with Fr. Michael Simone
• 9AM in the Church, with Fr. Michael Simone (with Livestream) 
• 9AM in 625 W. Adams, for young families, with Fr. Paul Novak 
• 9 AM in Hughes Hall, with Fr. Pat McGrath 
• 11AM in church, with Fr. Paul Novak 
• 5 PM in church, with Fr. Pat McGrath (with Livestream) 
• 8PM in church, with Fr. Ed Shea  
  • *Free parking in 625 W Adams structure

Holy Thursday - April 6th

• Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Fr. Pat McGrath (with Livestream) at 7PM ​
  • ​Old St. Pat's will partake in the ​​Foot Washing ritual this year, and any and everyone is invited to participate
  • ​Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Night Watch will begin at the conclusion of the Liturgy, and our church will remain open until midnight for those who wish to make Old St. Pat’s part of their traditional Seven Churches Visitation.
  • *Free parking in 625 W Adams structure

Good Friday - April 7th​

• 9AM - Opportunity for Individual Confession in church
• 12PM - Stations of the Cross ​(with Livestream) 
• 3PM - Liturgy of the Lord's Passion, with Fr. Michael Simone ​(with Livestream)
  
  • ​*Free parking in 625 W Adams structure

Holy Saturday - April 8th

• 7:30PM - Easter Vigil, with Fr. Pat McGrath ​(with Livestream)  
  • ​*Free parking in 625 W Adams structure

Easter Sunday - April 9th

• 7AM in church, with Msgr. Ken Velo  
• 9AM
  
  • in the Church, with Fr. Ed Foley (with Livestream) 
    
  • in Hughes Hall, with Fr. John Cusick at 
    
  • in 625 W. Adams, with Fr. Michael Simone 
• 11AM
  
  • in the Church, with Fr. Paul Novak 
  • in Hughes Hall, with Fr. Ed Foley  
• 1PM  in the church, with Fr. Pat McGrath 
  

*There will be no 5PM or 8PM Masses on Easter Sunday.
*Free parking in 625 W Adams structure on Easter Sunday.

All of our Livestreams can always be found at livestream.com/oldstpats at the top of the dashboard once we go live.

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 ​​This Lent, the Old St. Patrick’s community invites you to participate in
​any of these experiences and spiritual practices. .

At the Crossroads Speaker and Discussion Series​

Old St. Patrick's Fellowship Hall, 625 W. Adams at 6:30 PM
Wednesdays, March 8th and March 22nd​

The questions are just as thought-provoking as they are important. We invite you to join us for two special evenings as together with highly regarded thought leaders, we explore questions of race, neighborhood, and church. Join us for discussions with the Folded Map Project co-founders, Tonika Johnson and Janell Nelson, and Old St. Patrick's Fr. Ken Simpson. 

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"Go and Do Likewise" Gospel Reflections

Old St. Patrick's Fellowship Hall, 625 W. Adams, at 10:15 AM​
Sundays during Lent (February 26th - March 26th) 
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​We hear the Gospel proclaimed every Sunday. Perhaps we even read the Gospel as a personal spiritual practice. But where can we go if we just want to talk with others about what we hear in the Sunday Gospels? Go and Do Likewise: Living the Gospel is a thirty minute session, scheduled for five Sundays in Lent, that invites us into dialogue with the Sunday Gospel and one another. No registration is necessary. 

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Evenings of Adoration and Contemplative Music

Old St. Patrick's Church, 700 W. Adams, at 7:00 PM
Wednesdays, Wednesdays, February 22nd, March 1st, 15th* and 29th
*Program on March 15th starts at 8:00 PM
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Please join members of the Old St. Pat’s Community throughout the season of Lent for 4 evenings of Adoration.  This experience will be hosted by Encounter younger adults and OSP's music ministry and open to anyone and everyone.  Prayer, reflection, and guidance materials will be available for those praying in this way for the first time. No registration is necessary. ​

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Lenten Reconciliation Service

Old St. Patrick's Church, 700 W. Adams, at 6:30 PM
Tuesday, March 14th 

To be part of a movement of change in the church an in our world, we must have the courage to look in the mirror we consider the opportunities we have been given - including the ones we have missed - to be bearers of Christ's love in the world.  Let us join together as a community for an evening of prayer and reconciliation, with God, with our world, and with one another.

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Encounter Young Adult Lenten Small Groups

Old St. Patrick's Ministry Center (Rectory),  at 6:30 PM
Every Sunday during Lent (February 26th - April 2nd)

​Join the Encounter Young Adult Ministry in building community and deepening your relationship with Christ this Lenten season. No sacraments or prior knowledge are necessary and if you are a single parent, married, divorced or single, you have a place in our ministry! Everyone between the ages of 18 and 39 are welcome. Food will be provided. If have any questions, please feel free to contact Brenda Chávez at brendac@oldstpats.org.

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Book Discussion:  The Spirituality of Imperfection

Online Discussion via Zoom
Saturday, March 4, 10am–11:30am

Please join us for part one of our prayer chapel's Lenten book discussion, The Spirituality of Imperfection by Kurtz & Ketcham. This book brings together the wisdom stories of many traditions and faiths, from the Hebrew prophets, Buddhist sages and Christian teachers to the ancient Greeks and the modern insights of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a book about storytelling and our search for meaning as we encounter life's inevitable difficulties and sufferings.

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Turning to Jesus Our Companion

Lent can be a time when we bring the worries, pains and sorrows that weigh on our hearts to the one who understands and whose wisdom has practical application to our own life situation. Jesus, whose yoke is easy and burden light, offers us a loving, empathic, and ever-present companionship. The grace of his presence is experienced through scripture, reflection, and community, wherever two or more are gathered in his name. So, please gather with us when you can. Our chapel prayer this Lent will use Sr. Joyce Rupp’s brand new Lenten devotional, Jesus, Companion in My Suffering.

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Lent Music From Old St. Pat's
Our rootedness in faith can sometimes be best expressed through music. Spotify users can click the link below for a playlist curated by our Director of Music, Mark Scozzafave.  Experience the composers and music that we so often associate with Lent at OSP.  Click here!

Lent 180
Recorded during Lent 2022, Lent 180 is a three minute reflection for each week in Lent.  Each episode features a member of the Old St. Patrick’s community sharing their thoughts about a one word prompt inspired by the Sunday Gospel.  Listen to these 180 second reflections that may just turn your thinking 180 degrees around. Click on the following recordings to listen: Desert, Awake, Cultivation, Forgive, Mercy, & Passion.

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