The Great Fifty Days of EasterClick here for more info.

This Season

Easter at Ascension

The feast of Easter is a season of fifty days, from Easter Eve through the Day of Pentecost. It is a period of continued celebration of our Lord's glorious Resurrection.

Feast Days & Special Observances

The Fifth Sunday of Easter: May Crowning

Sunday, May 3

11 a.m. Procession, Angelus & Solemn High Mass

Ascension Day

Thursday, May 14

7 p.m. Procession & Solemn High Mass
Guest Preacher: Fr Matthew Olver, Executive Director of The Living Church

The Day of Pentecost

Sunday, May 24

11 a.m. Procession & Solemn High Mass

Trinity Sunday

Sunday, May 31

11 a.m. Procession, Solemn High Mass & Te Deum 

Fellowship & Prayer

Weekday Masses

12 p.m. Monday & Friday
8 a.m. Tuesday & Thursday


Fellowship

Friday, June 12
Ascension at the Orchestra

6:30 p.m. Grant Park Music Festival
Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Grant Park Orchestra in Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, the composer’s poignant final symphony. Gabriela Lena Frank’s harrowing Conquest Requiem and Charles Ives’s eclectic Variations on America round out the program.

Choral Services

Sunday, May 3

3:30 p.m. Organ Recital
4 p.m. Choral Evensong & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

Sunday, June 7
Corpus Christi (observed)

3:30 p.m. Organ Recital
4 p.m. Choral Evensong & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

Learn

Easter Faith Formation

Resurrection: What We Have Seen and Heard and Touched
All sessions take place on Sundays after the 11 a,m. Solemn High Mass and include a hearty lunch.

Sunday, April 26 - The Illuminated St. John’s Bible 

Sunday, May 3 - All thy Garments Smell like Myrrh

Sunday, May 10 - The Sounds of Easter