Feasts and Pilgrim's Days

January 1	*Solemnity of Our Lady - new year*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers

January 6	*Solemnity of the Apparition of the Lord - feast of the three kings*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers

January 21	*Solemnity of Saint Meinrad (+ 861), holy day*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers, procession with the skull relic of St. Meinrad to the Lady Chapel

March 19	*Solemnity of St. Joseph*
	9:30 a.m.	High Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Solemn Vespers

Holy Thursday	7 p.m.	Mass of the Lord's Supper, Compline and Adoration in the undercroft of the Church

Good Friday	8 p.m.	Mourning Matins
	4 p.m.	Celebration of the Lord's Passion, adoration before the Holy Sepulchre in the Chapel of St. Magdalene

Holy Saturday	8 p.m.	Mourning Mattins
	20.30	Liturgy of the Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday	07.30	Pontifical Lauds
	10:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass - solemnized by orchestra and mixed choir
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers

Ascension	*Important pilgrim's day*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass - solemnized by orchestra and mixed choir
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers

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

Corpus Christi	8:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass followed by the procession with the Blessed Sacrament on the abbey square
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers with Benediction
	8 p.m.	Pontifical Compline with Benediction


July 11	*Solemnity of St. Benedict - holy day in the abbey*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers

July 16	*Feast of our Lady of Einsiedeln*
(respectively:	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
following Sunday)	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers followed by the procession to the Lady Chapel with sung Marian Litany

August 15	Assumption of our Lady
	*Patronage of the Abbey Church - important pilgrim's day*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
	2:30 p.m.	Devotion with the pilgrims
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers followed by the procession to the Lady Chapel with sung Marian Litany

September 8	*Birth of Mary - holy day in the abbey*
	9:30 a.m.	High Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Solemn Vespers followed by the procession to the Lady Chapel with sung Marian Litany

September 14	*Anniversary of the Dedication of the Lady Chapel - main pilgrim's day*
	*Eve*
	8 p.m.	First Pontifical Mass, procession to the Lady Chapel

	*Holy Day*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
	11 a.m.	Pilgrims Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers
	8 p.m.	Solemn Compline followed by the procession with the Blessed Sacrament on the illuminated abbey square

1st Sunday in Oct.	*Memorial of our Lady of the Rosary*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
	14:30 p.m.	Pilgrims Prayer
	4:30 p.m.	Solemn Vespers followed by the procession to the Lady Chapel with sung Marian Litany

2nd Sunday in Oct.	*Sunday of St. Meinrad*
	9:30 a.m.	High Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Solemn Vespers followed by the procession with the skull relic of St. Meinrad

November 1	*All Saint's Day*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers

December 8	*Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary*
	9:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers

Christmas	*Eve*
	8 p.m.	Solemn Monastic Vigils
	11 p.m.	Mass at midnight - solemnized by orchestra and mixed choir

	*Christmas Day*
	10:30 a.m.	Pontifical Mass - solemnized by orchestra and mixed choir
	4:30 p.m.	Pontifical Vespers followed by by a devotion before the Christmas crib

December 31	*Turn of the Year*
	8 p.m.	Solemn Monastic Vigils
	11 p.m.	Celebration for the turn of the year - organ plays