Ash Wednesday Mass

The Church’s exhortation “Repent, and believe in the gospel” is the hallmark
of the holy season of Lent which begins with the imposition of ashes on the
foreheads of the faithful on Ash Wednesday, March 5.

St, Joseph Cathedral, 401 Main Street in downtown Baton Rouge, will observe
Ash Wednesday with the Distribution of Ashes at its Noontime Mass.
Bishop Michael G. Duca will be the principal celebrant and homilist at the
noontime Mass, with Father J. Cary Bani, cathedral rector, as concelebrant.
“We welcome parishioners, friends, and visitors to join us at this special time
during the Jubilee Year of Hope when we renew our Lenten practices of
penance, fasting and abstinence, and doing works of charity and mercy,” said
Father Bani.

Throughout Lent, these services will occur at the Cathedral:
-- Sunday Mass: 4:00 p.m. (Saturdays), and 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. (with choir).
-- Daily Mass: 12:05 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, with sacramental confessions
from 11:15 a.m. to 11:55 a.m.
-- Way of the Cross: 11:30 a.m. each Friday, led by the parish’s Knights of
Columbus Council