Lent and Easter Schedule – February and March 2024


LENTEN REGULATIONS

  • Fasting – On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, those who are 18 but not yet 60 are allowed only one full meal. Two smaller meals are allowed as needed, but eating solid foods between meals is not permitted.
  • Abstinence from Meat – Those who are 14 years of age or older are to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and on all the Fridays of Lent.

LENTEN RICE BOWL – ALSMGIVING

  • There will be a collection for the Rice Bowl at each weekend Mass in Lent. If you would like a Rice Bowl to put your spare change in during the week, please pick one up at Mass.
  • MORE INFORMATION

STATIONS OF THE CROSS

  • We will be praying the Stations each Friday at 7 PM during Lent – It will alternate at each church – There are 14 stations that each depict a moment on Jesus’s journey to Calvary. The object of the Stations is to help us to make in spirit, a pilgrimage to the chief scenes of Christ’s sufferings and death, and this has become one of the most popular of Catholic devotions. It is carried out by passing from Station to Station, with certain prayers at each and meditation on the various incidents.
  • February 16 at St. Cyprian
  • February 23 at St. Celestine
  • March 1 at St. Cyprian
  • March 8 at St. Celestine
  • March 15 at St. Cyprian
  • March 22 at St. Celestine

CONFESSIONS AND RECONCILIATION SERVICE

  • Regular Confessions on Saturdays from 3:30 to 3:50 PM at St. Cyprian and from 4 to 4:45 PM at St. Celestine
  • Saturday, March 23 – Confession for those who speak Polish (Polish–speaking priest will be available) from 3:30 to 5 PM at St. Celestine
  • Monday, March 25 – Parish Reconciliation Service at 7 PM at St. Celestine

HOLY WEEK – TRIDUUM AND EASTER SUNDAY

  • Labyrinth on March 24-29 in the Gym and Annex at St. Celestine from Palm Sunday through Good Friday – Palm Sunday, March 24 from 12 Noon to 5 PM – March 25-28 from 5 to 9 PM – Good Friday, March 29 from 9 AM to 9 PM – MORE INFORMATION
  • Monday of Holy Week – March 25 – Parish Reconciliation Service at 7 PM at St. Celestine
  • Wednesday of Holy Week – March 27 – Taizé Prayer at 7 PM at St. Cyprian
  • Triduum – Holy Thursday – March 28
    8 AM – Morning Prayer at St. Cyprian
    7 PM – Mass of the Lord’s Supper at St. Celestine
    8:30 PM – Holy Thursday Church Pilgrimage – MORE INFORMATION
  • Triduum – Good Friday – March 29
    8 AM – Morning Prayer at St. Celestine
    3 PM – Triduum Service of the Lord’s Passion at St. Cyprian
    7 PM – Shadow Stations at St. Celestine
  • Triduum – Holy Saturday – March 30
    8 AM – Morning Prayer at St. Cyprian
    11 AM – Easter Basket Blessing at St. Cyprian
    12 Noon – Easter Basket Blessing at St. Celestine
    7:30 PM – Easter Vigil at St. Celestine
  • Easter Sunday – March 31
    Masses of the Resurrection of the Lord
    7:30 AM and 11 AM at St. Celestine
    9 AM and 11:30 AM at St. Cyprian

Regular Parish Mass / Reconciliation Schedule – Two Worship Sites


St. Mother Theodore Guerin is one parish with two worship sites: St. Cyprian Church and St. Celestine Church. The parish school is St. Celestine school.

St. Celestine Church
3020 North 76th Court in Elmwood Park, Illinois 60707

  • Saturday at 5 PM
  • Sunday at 7:30 AM and 11 AM
  • Weekdays – Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8 AM
  • Reconciliation / Confessions on Saturday from 4 to 4:45 PM

St. Cyprian Church
2601 Clinton Street in River Grove, Illinois 60171

  • Saturday at 4 PM
  • Sunday at 9 AM
  • Weekdays – Tuesday and Thursday 8 AM
  • Reconciliation / Confessions on Saturday from 3:30 to 3:50 PM

Live-Streamed Masses


We live-stream the 11 AM Sunday Mass on Facebook. You are welcome to watch and listen to our previous liturgies and services on our YouTube Channel anytime.


PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL COMMUNION – My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love you above all things, and I desire to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself wholly to you. Never permit me to be separated from you. Amen.


View Previous Masses / Prayers in our YouTube Channel


Holy Day Schedule


Please check the current Bulletin for specific Mass times for Holy Days.

St. Celestine School Mass Schedule


During the school year, our parish school children attend the 8 AM weekday Masses at St. Celestine Church according to this schedule:

Mondays – Grades 1, 4 and 5
Wednesdays – Grades 2 and 3
Fridays – Grades 6, 7 and 8

The students are seated in the sections of pews immediately to the left and to the right of the main sections of pews off of the center aisle.

We have an all-school Mass once a month, usually on a Tuesday at 1:45 PM.  Check the school schedule for the all-school Mass schedule.