Holy Week i rapidly approaching, and since this time last year I received some questions about Mass times in various Dutch churches for this busiest of times of the liturgical year, below follow Mass times for all Dutch cathedrals, except the cathedral of St. Catherine in Utrecht, for which I have been unable to find a schedule online. If anyone knows more, by all means, share it in the comments.
Cathedral of SS. Joseph and Martin
Radesingel 4, Groningen
Palm Sunday (1 April)
- 9am: Holy Mass in Latin
- 11am: Holy Mass
- 5pm: Holy Mass in Polish
Maundy Thursday (5 April)
- 7pm: Holy Mass
Good Friday (6 April)
- 2pm: Stations of the Cross for children
- 3pm: Stations of the Cross
- 7pm: Service of the Passion of the Lord
Holy Saturday (7 April)
- 11:30pm: Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday (8 April)
- 9am: Holy Mass in Latin
- 11am: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Gerard de Korte
Easter Monday (9 April)
- 11am: Holy Mass
Cathedral Basilica of St. Bavo
Leidsevaart 146, Haarlem
Palm Sunday
- 10am: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Jos Punt
- Noon: Holy Mass for children
Maundy Thursday
- 7:30pm: Holy Mass
Good Friday
- 3pm: Stations of the Cross
- 7:30: Service of the Passion of the Lord
- 9:30pm: Dark Matins
Holy Saturday
- 10pm: Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday
- 10pm: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Jos Punt
- Noon: Holy Mass in Indonesian
Easter Monday
- 10pm: Holy Mass
Cathedral of SS. Lawrence and Elisabeth
Mathenesserlaan 305, Rotterdam
Palm Sunday
- 11pm: Holy Mass
Maundy Thursday
- 6pm: Holy Mass
Good Friday
- 10:30am: Stations of the Cross for children
- 3pm: Stations of the Cross
- 19:30pm: Service of the Passion of the Lord
Holy Saturday
- 10:30pm: Easter Vigil, offered by Bishop Hans van den Hende
Easter Sunday
- 11am: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Hans van den Hende
Easter Monday
- 11am: Holy Mass
Cathedral of Saint Anthony
Sint Janstraat 8, Breda
Palm Sunday
- 10:30am: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Jan Liesen
Maundy Thursday
- 7pm: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Jan Liesen
Good Friday
- 3pm: Service of the Passion of the Lord, presided by Bishop Jan Lisen
Holy Saturday
- 9pm: Easter Vigil, offered by Bishop Jan Liesen
Easter Sunday
- 10:30: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Jan Liesen
Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Evangelist
Torenstraat 16, ‘s Hertogenbosch
Palm Sunday
- 11am: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Antoon Hurkmans
Maundy Thursday
- 7:30pm: Holy Mass
Good Friday
- 3pm: Service of the Passion of the Lord
- 7pm: Stations of the Cross
Holy Saturday
- 10pm: Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday
- 10am: Holy Mass
- 11:45am: Holy Mass
Easter Monday
- 11am: Holy Mass
Cathedral of St. Christopher
Grote Kerkstraat Bij 29, Roermond
Palm Sunday
- 11:30am: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Frans Wiertz
Good Friday
- 3pm: Stations of the Cross, offered by Bishop Frans Wiertz
Holy Saturday
- 8:30pm: Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday
- 11:30am: Holy Mass, offered by Bishop Frans Wiertz
Easter Monday:
- 11:30am: Holy Mass
All this information was collected by me from various parish and diocesan websites, and so may well be far from complete. A Google search or drop by the various cathedrals may give you more and more accurate information as Holy Week approaches.
If I understand correctly (from what fr W told us last Tuesday), the Service of the Passion of the Lord in our Cathedral might be preceded by our bishop.
Okay. I just went with the information on the parish website. But it would be good for the bishop to lead more than one of the Holy Week celebrations in his cathedral.
Ideally yes. But with the shortage of priests in our parish, I can imagine the need for him to be somewhere else then in his cathedral where we have a priest, a good priest even.
At Breda Cathedral, the service on Good Friday will not be the Stations of the Cross, but the service of Friday of the Passion of the Lord, presided by Mgr Liesen.
Thank you! I’ll change it in the post.
O, and the address of Breda Cathedral is Sint Jansstraat 8.
Really? Google told me it was the Veemarktstraat… Thanks!
It’s a common mistake: Veemarktstraat 48 is the address of the Bishop’s Office, while the Cathedral is two blocks away in the Sint Jansstraat.
http://www.dekathedraal.com/dekathedraal/bestanden/BB1204.pdf for the Cathedral of Utrecht.