{"id":12104,"date":"2026-09-01T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/actualites\/nouvelles\/votive-mass-mystery-cross-christ-marking-opening-pastoral-year\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:04:21","slug":"votive-mass-mystery-cross-christ-marking-opening-pastoral-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/votive-mass-mystery-cross-christ-marking-opening-pastoral-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Votive Mass of the Mystery of the Cross of Christ, Marking the Opening of the Pastoral Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The faithful are invited to join <b>Archbishop Christian L\u00e9pine<\/b> of Montreal for this diocesan celebration on <b>Friday, September 11, 2026<\/b>, at <b>7:30 p.m., at Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral.<\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>This votive Mass will be a time of prayer and communion around the Cross of Christ, a sign of God&#8217;s love and Christian hope. It will be an invitation to grow in faith and reflect on the mystery of the Cross, through which Christ opened the way to life and salvation.<\/p>\n\n<p><b>The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross<\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>Celebrated every year on <b>September 14<\/b>, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross invites Christians to look to the Cross of Christ. Far more than a symbol of suffering, the Cross reveals the fullness of Christ&#8217;s love and proclaims the victory of the Resurrection.<\/p>\n\n<p>The liturgy of this feast reminds us that, in Christ, the Cross becomes a source of hope and life.<\/p>\n\n<p>The diocesan celebration will take place a few days before the feast&#8217;s liturgical date, allowing the community to gather in prayer and give thanks for the salvation Christ offers.<\/p>\n\n<p><b>Details<\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>  Friday, September 11, 2026<br \/>\n  7:30 p.m.<br \/>\n\u26ea Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral<br \/>\n1085, rue de la Cath\u00e9drale, Montreal<\/p>\n\n<p><b>Unable to attend in person?<\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>The celebration will also be livestreamed on the diocesan platforms, allowing the faithful to join together in prayer from wherever they are.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u25b6\ufe0f <b>Watch the celebration live<\/b><\/p>\n\n<p><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4rDSfu6zdps?si=bLiXADnJAKBL_5qJ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The faithful are invited to join Archbishop Christian L\u00e9pine of Montreal for this diocesan celebration on Friday, September 11, 2026,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}