These requirements may be fulfilled at the

National Shrine in the following ways:

Liturgy of the Hours

Sundays of Advent
4:00 p.m.
Sundays of Lent
4:00 p.m.

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Exposition of the Blessed
Sacrament and Benediction
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Monday - Thursday
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Friday

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Rosary
Monday Friday
11:45 am & 4:45 pm Crypt Church
Saturday
11:45 am Crypt Church
4:45 pm Great Upper Church
Sunday
1:10 pm Crypt Church

Prayer for the Year of

Consecrated Life
O God, throughout the ages
you have called women and men
to pursue lives of perfect charity
through the evangelical counsels
of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
During this Year of Consecrated Life,
we give you thanks for these
courageous witnesses of Faith
and models of inspiration.
Their pursuit of holy lives teaches us
to make a more perfect offering
of ourselves to you.
Continue to enrich your Church
by calling forth sons and daughters
who, having found the pearl of great price,
treasure the Kingdom of Heaven above all
things.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Proclamation of the Kingdom (2008)
Chapel of Our Lady of Pompei
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception,
Washington, D.C.
Text: 2014, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Observance of

The Year of Consecrated Life

30 November 2014 to
2 February 2016

Basilica of the
National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception
Washington, D.C.

The Holy Father [Pope Francis] on the occasion

of the Year of Consecrated Life, concedes
a plenary indulgence, with the customary
conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic
communion and prayer in keeping with
the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff) to all
members of the institutes of consecrated life
and other truly repentant faithful moved by a
spirit of charity, starting from the first Sunday
of Advent this year [30 November 2014] until
2 February 2016, the day of the closure of the
Year of Consecrated Life. The indulgence may
also be offered for departed souls in Purgatory.
Indulgence may be obtained:
- In Rome, in participation in the
international meetings and celebrations
established in the calendar of the
Congregation for the Institutes of
Consecrated Life and the Societies of
Apostolic Life, and pious reflection on for a
suitable period of time, concluding with the
Lords Prayer, the Profession of Faith in any
legitimate approved form, and invocations
of the Virgin Mary;
- In all the particular Churches, during
the days devoted to consecrated life in the
diocese, and during diocesan celebrations
organized for the Year of Consecrated Life,
by visiting the cathedral or another sacred
place designated with the consent of the
Ordinary of the place, or a convent church
or oratory of a cloistered monastery, and
publicly reciting the Liturgy of the Hours
or through a suitable period of time of
devout reflection concluding with the

Lords Prayer, the Profession of Faith in

any legitimate approved form, and pious
invocations of the Virgin Mary.
Members of the Institutes of Consecrated
Life who, on account of ill health or other
serious reasons are prevented from visiting
these sacred places, may nonetheless
receive Plenary Indulgence if, completely
detached from any type of sin and with
the intention of being able to fulfill the
three usual conditions as soon as possible,
devoutly carry out the spiritual visit and
offer their illness and the hardships of their
life to God the merciful through Mary, with
the addition of the prayers as above.
To facilitate this access to divine grace by
means of pastoral charity, the Apostolic
Penitentiary Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who
signed the decree, asks that the canons,
members of the Chapter, the priests of the
Institutes of Consecrated Life and all others
able to hear confessions offer themselves
willingly and generously to the celebration
of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and
regularly administer Holy Communion to
the sick.

Sunday Masses
Vigil 5:15 pm (Saturday)
7:30, 9:00 and 10:30 am
12 noon Solemn Liturgy
1:30 pm Mass in Spanish
4:30 pm

Monday Saturday
Masses
7:00, 7:30, 8:00 and 8:30 am
12:10 and 5:15 pm

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Confessions
Monday Saturday
7:45 8:15 am / 10:00 am 12 noon
3:30 6:00 pm
Sunday
10 am 12 noon / 2:00 4:00 pm