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Holy Week 2025 programme

The parish’s Holy Week timetable, from Palm Sunday, 13 April, to Easter Sunday, 20 April.

9 April 2025

Holy Week 2025 poster: Christ with the crown of thorns and a red cloak, next to the timetable

Palm Sunday, 13 April

Holy Week begins with the blessing of palms and the procession.

  • 9:45Procession from the Trinitarian convent on Calle de Lope de Vega
  • 11:00Mass when the procession reaches the parish, around this time
  • 13:00Mass
  • 19:30Mass

Holy Tuesday, 15 April

  • 12:00No Mass in the parish: it is the Chrism Mass at the cathedral. Everything else as usual

Holy Thursday, 17 April

A day devoted to the Eucharist and to the commandment of love.

  • 11:00Lauds
  • 19:00Mass of the Lord’s Supper
  • 21:00Holy Hour before the altar of repose

Good Friday, 18 April

Commemoration of the Passion and Death of the Lord.

  • 11:00Lauds
  • 12:30Stations of the Cross
  • 17:00Celebration of the Lord’s Passion

Holy Saturday, 19 April

A day of silence and waiting.

  • 10:30Lauds
  • 22:00Solemn Easter Vigil, the great celebration of the Resurrection

Easter Sunday, 20 April

Christ is risen! A day of joy and hope.

  • 12:00Mass
  • 13:00Mass
  • 19:30Mass

Come and live Holy Week as a community.

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