Prayer Service

The peaceful vigils are part of a 40-day campaign aimed at ending abortion through prayer, fasting, and community outreach.

Vespers will be prayed at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, at 5:30 p.m. on the Sundays of Lent beginning March 1.

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyon invite you to join them via Zoom for a virtual Lenten prayer series, "We Come Humbly to the Cross." The series will begin on Friday, February 20, and continue on the Mondays and Fridays of Lent.

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyon invite you to join them via Zoom for a virtual Lenten prayer series, "We Come Humbly to the Cross." The series will begin on Friday, February 20, and continue on the Mondays and Fridays of Lent.

Vespers will be prayed at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, at 5:30 p.m. on the Sundays of Lent beginning March 1.

The Living Stations of the Cross, as seen through the eyes of Jesus and Mary, will be presented at St. Athanasius & St. John Church, 126 Maine Avenue, Rumford, on Palm Sunday, March 29, at 7 p.m. The stations will be shared as freeze-action tableaus.

A Tenebrae Service will be held on Palm Sunday, March 29, beginning at 7 p.m. at St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Scarborough.

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyon invite you to join them via Zoom for a virtual Lenten prayer series, "We Come Humbly to the Cross." The series will begin on Friday, February 20, and continue on the Mondays and Fridays of Lent.

A Tenebrae Service will be held on March 30, the Monday of Holy Week, at 7 p.m. at the Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul, 122 Ash Street in Lewiston. 

A Tenenbrae service will be held on the Monday of Holy Week at 7:30 p.m. at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway.

A Tenebrae service will be held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Windham on the Monday of Holy Week at 7:30 p.m.

On the Wednesday of Holy Week, the Parish of the Holy Eucharist will offer a Tenebrae service at Sacred Heart Church in Yarmouth from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. 

On Good Friday, we recall Christ’s Passion and death. It is the only day of the Church calendar on which Mass is not celebrated. Instead, we gather quietly to pray, both for ourselves and those around us; to listen to Scripture; and to venerate the cross.

Bishop James Ruggieri will offer Office of Readings and Morning Prayer on Good Friday at 7:30 a.m. at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

In recognition of the diversity of the Lewiston area community, Prince of Peace Parish will hold a multicultural presentation of the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday.

Embracing a Passamaquoddy tradition that goes back more than 100 years, parishioners will gather on Good Friday for the blessing of the waters of Sipuhsis Brook, located at Peter Dana Point.

Bishop James Ruggieri will offer Readings and Prayer on Holy Saturday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at 7:30 a.m.

One of the most beloved traditions in eastern European countries, Święconka, will be renewed with the blessing of Easter baskets at St. Mary Church on 768 Ohio Street in Bangor on Holy Saturday, April 4, at 9 a.m.

The traditional blessing of Easter baskets will be held at Holy Trinity Church in Lisbon Falls on Holy Saturday at 10 a.m.  

St. Mary of the Visitation Parish will hold a Divine Mercy Sunday celebration on Sunday, April 12, at St. Mary of the Visitation Church.

A Divine Mercy Sunday celebration will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Joseph Church in Bridgton.

A eucharistic Holy Hour with the praying of the Divine Mercy Chaplet will be held at St. Louis Church, 279 Danforth Street in Portland, on Divine Mercy Sunday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.