Times Of Masses And The Office: Holy Week 2026. Saint-Eugène, Paris. Horaires Des Offices De La Semaine Sainte 2026 À Saint-Eugène, Paris.

Illustration: SCHOLA SAINTE-CECILE

Horaires des offices 

de la Semaine Sainte 2026 à Saint-Eugène, Paris.

Par: Henri de Villiers.

Venez vivre avec nous les jours les plus saints

de l’année liturgique, où sont commémorés

les évènements majeurs de notre salut !

Samedi 28 mars, à 9h30 : 

messe chantée du Samedi de la Passion.

Dimanche des Rameaux 29 mars :11h

– Bénédiction des rameaux, procession, 

messe solennelle des Rameaux, 

chant de la Passion selon saint Matthieu.

17h30 – Secondes Vêpres du dimanche 

des Rameaux & Salut du Très-Saint Sacrement.

Lundi Saint 30 mars, à 19h : 

messe solennelle du Lundi Saint 

(l’Onction de Béthanie).

Mardi Saint 31 mars, à 19h : 

messe solennelle du Mardi Saint, 

chant de la Passion selon saint Marc.

Mercredi Saint 1er avril :19h – 

messe solennelle du Mercredi Saint, 

chant de la Passion selon saint Luc.

20h30 – Office des Ténèbres du Jeudi Saint, 

avec répons de Ténèbres polyphoniques du Padre Martini 

& Lamentation de Jérémie de Michel-Richard de Lalande 

(1657 † 1726), maître de la chapelle des rois Louis XIV 

& Louis XV – Tricentenaire de la mort de Michel-Richard 

de Lalande à Saint-Eugène.

Jeudi Saint 2 avril :20h30 – 

Messe solennelle de la Cène – 

Lavement des pieds – 

Dépouillements des autels.

Vers 22h30 – Office des Ténèbres du Vendredi Saint, 

avec répons de Ténèbres polyphoniques du Padre Martini.

Vendredi Saint 3 avril :19h – 

Messe des Présanctifiés – 

chant de la 

Passion selon saint Jean & Adoration de la Croix.

Vers 22h – Office des Ténèbres du Samedi Saint, 

avec répons de Ténèbres polyphoniques du Padre Martini.

Samedi Saint 4 avril :12h – 

atelier décoration des œufs de Pâques en salle 

Sainte-Cécile (merci de venir avec vos œufs déjà durs).

15h30 – Vigile Pascale – baptême d’adultes 

& bénédiction des œufs de Pâques.

Dimanche de Pâques 5 avril :11h – 

Messe solennelle de la Résurrection, avec orchestre. Messe du Sacre de Louis XVI par François Giroust – Victimæ Pascali du chanoine Revert – Dextera Domini de César Franck – Regina cœli en grand motet de Michel-Richard de Lalande

Concert de Pâques de Vincent Rigot, organiste titulaire.

17h – Vêpres solennelles stationnales de Pâques, selon l’antique Ordre Romain (au propre de l’archidiocèse de Paris) (vêpres triples avec processions aux fonts baptismaux)

The Web-Site of Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile can be found

HERE

and

HERE

Saturday In Passion Week.

Peterborough Cathedral.

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Text from “The Liturgical Year”,
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
      Volume 6.
      Passion-Tide & Holy Week.

Today, we begin, as does the Holy Gospel, to number the days which precede the death, the sacrifice, of the Lamb of God. Saint John, in the twelfth chapter of his Gospel, tells us that this is the sixth day before the Pasch.

Jesus is in Bethania, where a Feast is being given in His honour. Lazarus, whom Jesus has restored to life, is present at this repast, which is given in the house of Simon the Leper. Martha is busy looking after the various arrangements; her sister, Mary Magdalene, has a Heavenly presentiment that the death and burial of her beloved Master are soon to be, and she has poured upon Him a precious perfume.

The Holy Gospel, which ever preserves such a mysterious reserve with regard to the Mother of Jesus, does not tells us that Mary was at Bethania on this occasion, but there can be no doubt of her being present. The Apostles were also there and partook of the repast.

Whilst the friends of our Saviour are thus grouped around Him, in this village, which is about two thousand paces from Jerusalem, the aspect of the faithless City becomes more and more threatening; and, yet, though His Disciples are not aware of it, Jesus is to enter the City, tomorrow, and in a most public manner.

The heart of Mary is a prey to sadness; Magdalene is absorbed in grief; everything announces that the fatal day is near.

The Church has reserved for Monday next the Gospel which relates the history of this Saturday. The reason is that, formerly, and up to the 12th-Century, there was no Station held on this day in Rome: It was left free, in order that the Pope might rest before the great fatigues of Holy Week, whose long and solemn Services were to begin on the morrow.

But, although he did not preside over the assembly of the Faithful, he had to observe two usages, which had been handed down by Tradition, and had almost become of Liturgical importance in The Church in Rome.

During the whole year, the Pope used, every Sunday, to send a portion of the Sacred Species Consecrated by him, to each of the Priests of the Presbyterial “Titles”, or Parochial Churches, of the City.

But it was today that this distribution was made for the whole of Holy Week, perhaps on account of tomorrow’s long Service. We know from the ancient books of Rome, that it was in the Lateran consistory that today’s Sacred distribution was made, and it is probable (as the Blessed Cardinal Tommasi and Benedict XIV tell us) that the Bishops of the Sub-Urbicarian Churches were of the number of those who received it.

We have several instances proving that, formerly, Bishops occasionally sent to one another the Blessed Sacrament, as a sign of the union that existed between them. With regard to the Priests of the City Parochial Churches, to whom a Particle was sent by the Pope, they put a portion of it in a Chalice before receiving the Precious Blood.

The other custom, peculiar to this day, consisted in giving alms to all the Poor. The Liturgists of the Middle-Ages allude to the beautiful appropriateness of the Roman Pontiff’s distributing alms with his own hands to the Poor, on this day, the same on which Mary Magdalene embalmed with her perfumes the feet of Jesus.

Since the 12th-Century, a Station has been assigned to this Saturday; it takes place in the Church of Saint John Before The Latin Gate. This ancient Basilica is built near the spot where the Beloved Disciple was, by Domitian’s order, plunged into the cauldron of boiling oil.

Let us tremble and Pray: Let us implore the Divine Mercy in favour of those many obstinately blind and hardened sinners, who are hastening to destruction. Oh !, that by the fervour of our supplications addressed to the Merciful Heart of our common Redeemer, we could obtain a reversion of their sentence, and secure them a pardon !

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Renée Fleming. Jessye Norman. They All Sing: Richard Strauss’ “Four Last Songs”. Utterly Unforgettable.

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949).

Artist: Max Liebermann.

Date: 1918.

Collection: Alte Nationalgalerie.

Source/Photographer:

http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=

collection&objectId=958865&viewType=detailView

This File is made available under the

Creative Commons CC0

1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

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Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,

unless stated otherwise.

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German Composer and Conductor known for his tone poems and operas. 

A leading figure of the Late-Romantic and Early-Modern era, and a successor to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt,[1] he combined, along with his friend Gustav Mahler, subtleties of orchestration with an advanced harmonic style.

From May to September 1948, just before his death, Strauss composed “Four Last Songs”, which deal with the subject of dying. 

The last one, “Im Abendrot” (“At Sunset”), ends with the line “Is this perhaps death ?” 

The question is not answered in words, but, instead, Strauss quotes the “Transfiguration Theme” from his earlier Tone Poem “Death and Transfiguration”— meant to symbolise the Transfiguration and fulfilment of the Soul after death.

In June 1948, he was cleared of any wrong-doing by a “De-Nazification” Tribunal in Munich.[1] 

That same month, he orchestrated “Ruhe, meine Seele !” (“Peace, My Soul”), a song that he had originally composed in 1894.[1]

“Four Last Songs”.

Composer: Richard Strauss.

Sung By: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

Available On YouTube

HERE

“Four Last Songs”.

Composer: Richard Strauss.

Sung By: Renée Fleming.

Available On YouTube

HERE

“Four Last Songs”.

Composer: Richard Strauss.

Sung By: Jessye Norman.

Available On YouTube

HERE

Masses Are Live-Streamed From Sacred Heart Church, Limerick, Ireland. Every Day.

This Video shows the

2023 Novena to Saint Francis de Sales.

Day 9: Recapitulation.

Available on YouTube

HERE

To watch daily Masses from

The Sacred Heart Church,

Limerick, Ireland, visit

HERE

The Friday In Passion Week. The Feast Day Of Our Mother Of Sorrows.

Peterborough Cathedral.

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Friday in Passion Week is the Feast Day of

The Seven Sorrows of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Illustration: TRANSALPINE REDEMPTORISTS

Friday In Passion Week. The Seven Sorrows Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. White Vestments.

Peterborough Cathedral.

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Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal for Friday in 

Passion Week, unless otherwise stated.

The Seven Sorrows of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Friday in Passion Week.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: The Blessed Virgin Mary

surrounded by The Seven Sorrows.

Nederlands: Linkerluik van een diptiek

Onze-Lieve-Vrouw der Zeven Weeën door

Adriaen Isenbrant (1490-1551); KMSKB, Brussel.

Photo: June 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Georges Jansoone JoJan

-artwork by Adriaen Isenbrant.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Christmas Cycle Celebrated the part taken by The Blessed Virgin in The Mystery of The Incarnation, glorifying both The Divinity of Jesus and The Divine Maternity of Mary.

The Easter Cycle tells us how The Mother of The Saviour co-operated in The Mystery of The Redemption. It shows her in this Season of The Passion at The Foot of The Cross, where Christ is dying (Introit, Sequence, Gospel). “An ineffable union is established between The Oblation of The Incarnate Word and that of Mary; The Divine Blood and The Tears of The Mother flow together and are mixed for the redemption of the human race.” [The quoted Text is taken from “The Liturgical Year” by Dom Guéranger: Friday in Passion Week.]

“The Prophecy of Simeon is fulfilled: A Sword of Grief pierces The Most Gentle Soul of The Glorious Virgin Mary (Collect), who, by her unequalled love, becomes The Queen of Martyrs” (Communion). [The quoted Text is taken from Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Sixth Lesson at Matins.]

As Judith had delivered Israel by killing Holofernes (Epistle), The Virgin is our Deliverer, with Jesus. Wherefore, the Gospel shows us, at The Foot of The Tree of Passion, in a scene which recalls The Tree of Prevarication, The Maternity of Mary with regard to The Church personified by Saint John.

“Let us Venerate The Transfixion of The Glorious Virgin Mary at The Foot of The Cross, in order to gather the happy fruit of The Passion of her Son” (Collect).

Mass: Stabant juxta.
Commemoration: Of the Feria.
The rest of the Mass is identical with that of the other Feast 

of The Seven Sorrows of The Blessed Virgin Mary, on 

15 September, except the following:
Gradual: Dolorosa.
Tract: Stabat Sancta.
Sequence: After the Sequence, there is no Alleluia.
Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary: “Et te in Transfixione”.
Last Gospel: The Gospel of the Feria.

Friday In Passion Week. The “Te Deum” Is Sung At Matins On The Feast Day Of The Seven Sorrows Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Peterborough Cathedral.

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The Solemn “Te Deum” is sung

on all occasions of public Church rejoicing.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Text is taken from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless otherwise stated.

When was the last time you heard the “Te Deum” sung in your Church ?

Why not ask your Parish Priest (Pastor) to arrange to have it sung in your Church ?

The “Te Deum” Stained-Glass Window, by 

Christopher Whall, Church of Saint Mary The Virgin,

Ware, Hertfordshire, England.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/

photos/barkingtigs/3263493149/

Author: Barking Tigs.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: Saint Ambrose.

One of the Traditionally-ascribed authors

of the “Te Deum”, together with Saint Augustine.

Deutsch: hl. Ambrosius.

Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664).

Date: 1626-1627.

Current location:

Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes,

Seville, Spain.

Note: Deutsch: Urspr. für den Konvent San Pablo, Sevilla, Auftraggeber: Prior Diego de Bordas.

Source/Photographer:

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.

Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Permission: [1].

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The “Te Deum” (also known as “The Ambrosian Hymn” or 

“A Song of The Church”) is an Early-Christian Hymn of Praise. The Title is taken from its opening Latin words, “Te Deum laudamus”, rendered as “Thee, O God, we Praise”.

The Hymn remains in regular use in the Catholic Church, in the Office of Readings (the Divine Office), found in the Liturgy of The Hours, and in thanksgiving to God for a special Blessing, such as the Election of a Pope, the Consecration of a Bishop, the Canonisation of a Saint, a Religious Profession, the publication of a Treaty of Peace, a Royal Coronation, etc. It is sung either after Mass or the Divine Office, or as a separate Religious Ceremony. The Hymn also remains in use in the Anglican Communion and some Lutheran Churches in similar settings.

In the Traditional Office, the “Te Deum” is sung at the end of Matins, on all days when the Gloria is said at Mass; those days are all Sundays, outside Advent, Septuagesima, Lent, and Passiontide; on all Feasts (except the Triduum) and on all Ferias during Eastertide.

A Plenary Indulgence is granted, under the usual conditions, to those who recite it in public on New Year's Eve.

The “Te Deum” (see, below) is sung by the Benedictine Monks of the Abbey of Saint Maurice and Saint Maur, Clervaux. Luxembourg.

The “Te Deum” is attributed to two Fathers and Doctors of The Church, Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine, and is one the most majestic Chants in the Liturgy of The Church. It is sung in Traditional Seminaries and Monastic Houses at the Divine Office and for Double Feasts of The First Class, The Nativity, Easter, Corpus Christi, Epiphany, Pentecost and those which have an Octave.

The Solemn “Te Deum” is sung

on all occasions of public Church rejoicing.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Authorship is traditionally ascribed to Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine, on the occasion of the latter's Baptism by the former in 387 A.D. It has also been ascribed to Saint Hilary, but Catholic-Forum.com says “it is now accredited to Nicetas, Bishop of Remesiana (4th-Century A.D.)”.

The Petitions at the end of the Hymn (beginning “Salvum fac populum tuum”) are a selection of Verses from The Book of Psalms, appended subsequently to the original Hymn.

The Hymn follows the outline of the Apostles' Creed, mixing a poetic vision of the Heavenly Liturgy with its declaration of Faith. Calling on the Name of God, immediately, the Hymn proceeds to name all those who Praise and Venerate God; from the hierarchy of Heavenly Creatures, to those Christian Faithful already in Heaven, to The Church spread throughout the World.

The Hymn then returns to its Credal formula, naming Christ and recalling His Birth, Suffering and Death, His Resurrection and Glorification. At this point, the Hymn turns to the subjects declaiming the Praise, both The Universal Church and the singer, in particular, asking for Mercy on past sins, protection from future sin, and the hoped-for re-unification with The Elect.

Te Deum Laudamus:

te Dominum confitemur.

Te æternum Patrem

omnis terra veneratur.

Tibi omnes Angeli;

tibi cæli et universæ Potestates;

Tibi Cherubim et Seraphim

incessabili voce proclamant:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus,

Dominus Deus Sabaoth.

Pleni sunt cæli et terra

maiestatis gloriæ tuæ.

Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus,

Te Prophetarum laudabilis numerus,

Te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.

Te per orbem terrarum

sancta confitetur Ecclesia,

Patrem immensæ maiestatis:

Venerandum tuum verum et unicum Filium;

Sanctum quoque Paraclitum Spiritum.

Tu Rex gloriæ, Christe.

Tu Patris sempiternus es Filius.

Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem,

non horruisti Virginis uterum.

Tu, devicto mortis aculeo,

aperuisti credentibus regna cælorum.

Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes, in gloria Patris.

Iudex crederis esse venturus.

Te ergo quæsumus, tuis famulis subveni:

quos pretioso sanguine redemisti.

Aeterna fac cum sanctis tuis in gloria numerari.

[added later, mainly from Psalm Verses:]

Salvum fac populum tuum,

Domine, et benedic hereditati tuæ.

Et rege eos, et extolle illos usque in æternum.

Per singulos dies benedicimus te;

Et laudamus Nomen tuum in sæculum,

et in sæculum sæculi.

Dignare, Domine, die isto sine peccato nos custodire.

Miserere nostri Domine, miserere nostri.

Fiat misericordia tua,

Domine, super nos,

quemadmodum speravimus in te.

In te, Domine, speravi:

non confundar in æternum.

Translation from The Book of Common Prayer.

We Praise Thee, O God:

We acknowledge Thee to be The Lord.

All the Earth doth Worship Thee:

The Father Everlasting.

To Thee all Angels cry aloud:

The Heavens, and all The Powers, therein.

To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim

Continually do cry:

Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth;

Heaven and Earth are full of The Majesty

Of Thy Glory.

The glorious company of The Apostles Praise Thee.

The goodly fellowship of The Prophets Praise Thee.

The noble Army of Martyrs Praise Thee.

The Holy Church throughout all the World

Doth acknowledge Thee.

The Father Of an Infinite Majesty;

Thine Honourable, True, And Only Son;

Also, The Holy Ghost, The Comforter.

Thou art The King of Glory, O, Christ.

Thou art The Everlasting Son of The Father.

When Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver man:

Thou didst not abhor The Virgin's Womb.

When Thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death:

Thou didst open The Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.

Thou sittest at The Right Hand of God:

In The Glory of The Father.

We believe that Thou shalt come: To be our Judge.

We therefore Pray Thee, help Thy servants:

whom Thou hast Redeemed with Thy Precious Blood.

Make them to be numbered with Thy Saints:

In Glory Everlasting.

[These two verses were added later,

mainly from Psalm verses:]

O Lord, save Thy people:

and Bless Thine heritage.

Govern them: And lift them up for ever.

Day by day: We magnify Thee;

And we worship Thy Name: Ever World Without End.

Vouchsafe, O Lord: To keep us this day without sin.

O Lord, have mercy upon us: Have mercy upon us.

O Lord, let Thy mercy lighten upon us:

As our trust is in Thee.

O Lord, in Thee have I trusted:

Let me never be confounded.