Feasts and Pilgrims' Days
Feasts and Pilgrims' Days

Every first Sunday in the month: After Vespers: Procession with sung Marian Litany.
January 1

January 21




March 19



from 2nd to 5th Sunday in Lent





Palm Sunday




Holy Thursday



Good Friday





Holy Saturday


Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday





Ascension


Pentecost




Corpus Christi Eve





Corpus Christi Day








July 11




Sunday after July 16





August 15








September 8



September 13





September 14








3rd Sunday in September








Memorial of our Lady of the Rosary:
1st Sunday in October




Sunday of St. Meinrad:
2nd Sunday in October



In October


November 1



December 8




December 16 or on the follawing Sunday






Christmas Eve
(December 24)


Christmas Day
(December 25)




December 31
9:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass

Solemnity of St. Meinrad (+ 861), holy day
9:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass
4.30 p.m.: Solemn Vespers, Procession with the skull relic of St. Meinrad

Solemnity of St. Joseph, holy day
9:30 a.m.: High Mass
4:30 p.m.: Solemn Vespers

Prayers days
9:30 a.m.: High Mass
4:30 p.m.: Vespres with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, procession to the Lady Chapel, Rosary and benediction

9:30 a.m.: Blessing of the palm branches in the Lady Chapel, procession and Pontifical Mass
4:30 p.m.: Solemn Vespers

7:00 p.m.: Mass of the Lord's Supper, Compline and adoration in the undercroft of the church from 8:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

8:00 a.m.: Mourning Matins
4:00 p.m.: Celebration of the Lord's Passion; adoration before the Holy Sepulchre in the chapel of St. Magdalene from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

8:00 a.m.: Mourning Matins
6:00 p.m.: Vespers

8.30 p.m.: Liturgy of the Easter Vigil

7.15 a.m.: Lauds
10:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass, solemnized by Orchestra and mixed choir
4:30 p.m.: Pontifical Vesper, followed by the Salve Regina

9:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass
4:30 p.m.: Pontifica Vespers

Saturday before the reast, at 8:00 p.m.: Solemn Matins
Day: 9:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass
4:30 p.m: Pontifical Vespers

4:30 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, soemn Vespers and benediction
8:00 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Compline and benediction

8:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass, followed by the procession with the Blessed Sacrament on the square
4:30 p.m.: Pontifical Vespers with Benediction
8:00 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Compline and benediction


Solemnity of St. Benedict, holy day in the Abbey
9:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass
4:30 p.m.: Pontifical Vespers

(or July 16, if it is a Sunday):
Feast of our Lady of Einsiedeln
9:30 a.m.: Pontifical mass
4:30 p.m.: Pontifical Vespers, followed by the procession with sung Marian Litany

Assumption of our Ladey, Patronage of the Abbey Church
9:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass
2:00 p.m.: Rosary
2:30 p.m.: Devotion with the pilgrims with blessing of herbes
4:30 p.m.: Pontifical Vespers, followed by the procession with sung Marian Litany

Birth of Mary, holy day in the Abbey
9:30 a.m.: High Mass
4:30 p.m.: Solemn Vespers, followed by the procession with sung Marian Litany

Vigil of the Miryculous Dedication:
4:30 p.m.: Pontifica Vespers
8:00 p.m.: First Pontifical Mass, procession to the chapel

Anniversary of the Didication of the ady Chapel, solemnity:
9:30 a.m.: Second Pontifical Mass
4:30 p.m.: Pontifical Vespers
8:00 p.m.: Solemn Compline, followed by the procession with the blessed Sacrament on the illuminated abbey square

Federal Comprecation Day, Equestrial Pilgrimage
9:30 a.m.: Solemn Mass
10:45 a.m.: Arival of the riders on the abay aque, devotion and blessing of the horses
4:30 p.m.: Vespres with exposition of the Blesses Sacrament, procession to the Lady Chapel, Rosary and benediction

9:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass
2:30 p.m.: Devotion for the pilgrims
4:30 p.m.: Solemn Vesper, followed by the procession with the blessed Sacrament on the abbey square

9:30 a.m.: High Mass
4:30 p.m.: Solemn Vespers, followed by the procession with the skull relic of St. Meinrad

Pilgrimage of the Youth
Programe: http://www.juwa-einsiedeln.ch

All Saints Solemnity
9:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass
4:30 p.m.: Pontifical Vespers

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
9:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass
4:30 p.m.: Pontifical Vespers

Prayer Sunday for the feast of Saint Adelheid
9:30 a.m.: Solemn Mass
4:30 p.m.: Vespres with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, procession to the Lady Chapel, Rosary and benediction

8:00 p.m.: Solemn Monastic Vigils
11:00 p.m.: Mass at midnight, solemnized by orchestra and mixed choir

8:30 a.m.: Parochial Mass (in aurora)
10:30 a.m.: Pontifical Mass, solemnized by orchestra and mixed choir
4:30 p.m.: Pontifical Vespers, followed by a devotion before the Christmas crèche

4:30 p.m.: Solemn Vespers
8:00 p.m.: Solemn Monastic Vigils. Adoration of the Blessed Sacramnt in the Chapel of Saint Magdalen
11:00 p.m.: Celebration for the turn of the year Midnight: Word of the Abbot for the new Year
 
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