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Origin of Divine Mercy Sunday, the Divine Mercy image, the Chaplet, and the Novena

Sunday, April 24, beginning at 2 p.m. and ending after 6 p.m. Holy Mass with Rev. Msgr. Anthony Mancini, Cathedral Rector. Click for full schedule. Everyone welcome! Handicap Accessible - Parking Supervised by Security.

The Chancery Office Building will be closed for Easter Monday. We will reopen on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.

Easter Sunday is the greatest of all Sundays, and Easter Time is the most important of all liturgical times.

“Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven, exult, let Angel ministers of God exult, let the trumpet of salvation sound aloud our mighty King's triumph!” Click to see photos on our diocesan Twitter account!

The Easter Vigil (also Paschal Vigil, Easter Vigil Mass or Mass of the Easter Vigil) is held after nightfall on Holy Saturday, it is the first Easter Mass to celebrate Christ’s resurrection from the dead, the most important feast in the church’s liturgical year.

We commemorated the Passion and death of Our Savior on Good Friday. At the customary ninth hour (3 p.m.), the faithful gathered at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence led by Bishop Thomas J. Tobin for the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion. Click to see photos on our diocesan Twitter account!

The Church celebrates the redemptive death of Christ on Good Friday.

Monsignor Anthony Mancini, Rector of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, celebrated the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday, April 14. Click to see photos on our diocesan Twitter account!

In our continuing celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Diocese of Providence, we have proclaimed...

Every year, the Church celebrates the great mysteries of the redemption of mankind in the “most sacred triduum of the crucifixion, burial and resurrection”(143).

Holy Thursday and Good Friday are particularly solemn days as we commemorate the Last Supper and the Crucifixion of Our Lord.

Yesterday evening, Monday, April 11, Most Rev. Thomas J. Tobin, Bishop of Providence, celebrated the Chrism Mass joined by Most Rev. Robert C. Evans, Auxiliary Bishop, and many diocesan clergy, religious, and faithful at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence. Click to see photos on our diocesan Twitter account!

Sunday, April 10, commemorating Our Lord's entry into Jerusalem, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin celebrated Holy Mass for Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord from the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence. Click to see photos on our diocesan Twitter account!

Whenever I pray the Holy Rosary, and come upon the first of the Sorrowful Mysteries, the Agony in the Garden, I stop to think how lonely, how abandoned, Jesus must have felt in that moment.

Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, or “Passion Sunday”...

EWTN's programming for Holy Week & Easter Sunday

Sat., April 9 thru Sun., April 17: many of these special Holy Masses will be live streamed from the Cathedral on the diocesan YouTube channel. Visit YouTube.com and search “Diocese of Providence.” Click for schedule!

Click for the schedule of special Holy Masses, Sat., April 9 thru Sun., April 17. Everyone welcome!

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