CHARLOTTE — Lent for Ukrainian (Byzantine Rite) Catholics begins Sunday evening, Feb. 26. The Divine Liturgy (Mass) of St. John Chrysostom will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, followed by a brief period of fellowship. Members will gather again in the chapel to start the Holy Season of Lent with Forgiveness Vespers at 1:30 p.m.
All Catholics of any rite are welcome to join the St. Basil Mission community as we all enter into this holy season of fasting, prayer and almsgiving.
Starting Wednesday, March 1, and continuing every Wednesday during Lent, the very ancient Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts will be celebrated at St. Basil Mission at 6:30 p.m. During this unique liturgy, Vespers is sung and Holy Communion consecrated on the previous Sunday is distributed to the faithful.
On the Sundays of Great Lent, the Divine Liturgy (Mass) of St. Basil the Great will be celebrated at 11 a.m.
All liturgies at St. Basil Mission are celebrated in English in the chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas Church, located at 1400 Suther Road in Charlotte.
Everyone is welcome to come and experience the various ancient liturgies of the Byzantine Rite.
For more information, go to www.stbasil.weebly.com.
— Catholice News Herald. File photo by Gretchen Filz, correspondent.