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Holy Eucharist

Schedule

The Eucharist wine cup

Download St. Bartholomew's Mass Card or go to the Mass Schedule or Calendar of Events for days and times.

 

At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet "in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us". (Sacrosanctum concilium, 47)

The holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord's own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist.

The daily and weekend Mass schedule at St. Bartholomew's appears on the home page as well as in our Calendar of Events. If you know of any parishioner who is sick or homebound but would like to receive Holy Eucharist, please contact the Parish Office at at 301-229-7933 so that it can be arranged.