Please note that while we have included Masses from parishes' regular schedules on the major dates below where they apply, we have not reproduced the regular schedules in their entirety for the whole season of Advent. Please check the Arlington Parishes and Neighboring Dioceses pages for parishes' routine schedules.

Masses for Christmastide will be listed on a separate schedule.

First Sunday of Advent, November 30

• Ordinary Sunday Mass schedules: see Arlington Parishes and Neighboring Dioceses.

First Saturday, December 6

• Diocese of Arlington

  • St. Rita of Cascia, Alexandria

    • Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 6 a.m.

  • St. John the Beloved, McLean

    • Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 5 a.m.

  • Holy Trinity at Renaissance Montessori School, Nokesville

    • Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 6:30 a.m.

  • St. Anthony Mission, King George

    • Postponed: Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 6:30 a.m.

  • Other parishes:

    • Ordinary Saturday Mass schedule

• Archdiocese of Baltimore

  • National Shrine of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Baltimore

    • Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 6 a.m.

• Diocese of Richmond

  • St.  Joseph, Richmond

    • Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 6 a.m.

  • St. Benedict, Chesapeake

    • Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 6 a.m.

Second Sunday of Advent, December 7

• Gotcha! There will be no TLM at St. Anthony Mission, King George

• Otherwise, ordinary Sunday Mass schedules: see Arlington Parishes and Neighboring Dioceses.

Monday, December 8  – Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M.

N.B. This is a Holyday of Obligation despite falling on a Monday, per USCCB rules.

• Diocese of Arlington

  • St. Rita of Cascia, Alexandria

    • Missa lecta at 12:15 p.m.

  • St. John the Beloved, McLean

    • Missa lecta at 12 noon – this replaces the usual Monday 8 p.m. Mass

  •  Holy Trinity at Renaissance Montessori School, Nokesville

    • Missa lecta at 7:15 a.m.

    • CANCELLED: Missa cantata at 6 p.m.

  • St. Anthony Mission, King George

    • Missa cantata at 9 a.m.

  • St. John the Baptist at Chelsea Academy, Front Royal

    • Missa lecta at 7 a.m.

    • Missa cantata at 7 p.m.

  • Sacred Heart of Jesus, Winchester

    • Missa lecta (possibly cantata) at 5:30 p.m.

  • St. Patrick, Fredericksburg

    • Missa cantata at 5 p.m.

• Archdiocese of Washington

  • No TLMs listed

• Archdiocese of Baltimore

  • National Shrine of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Baltimore

    • Missa lecta at 7 a.m.

    • Missa lecta at 12:10 p.m.

    • Missa cantata at 7 p.m.

• Diocese of Richmond

  • St. Joseph, Richmond

    • Missa lecta at 7 a.m.

    • Missa lecta at 12:15 p.m.

    • Missa cantata at 6 p.m.

  • Holy Comforter, Charlottesville

    • Missa cantata at 6 p.m.

  • St. Benedict, Chesapeake

    • Missa lecta at 6 a.m.

    • Missa lecta at 8 a.m.

    • Missa lecta (possibly cantata) at 7 p.m.

• Diocese of Wheeling–Charleston

  • Priory of the Annunciation (Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem), Charles Town, W.Va.

    • Missa lecta at 8 a.m.

    • Missa lecta at 11:15 a.m.

    • Missa cantata at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, December 13

• Diocese of Arlington

  • St. John the Beloved, McLean

    • Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 5 a.m.

  • St. John the Baptist in the Historic Church, Front Royal

    • Correction: Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 6 a.m.

  • St. Anthony Mission, King George

    • Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 6:30 a.m.

• Diocese of Richmond

  • Holy Comforter, Charlottesville

    • Sung Rorate cæli Mass at 6 a.m.

• Otherwise: Ordinary Saturday Mass schedule

Gaudete Sunday (Advent III), December 14

• Gotcha! There will be no TLM at St. Rita of Cascia, Alexandria

• Otherwise, ordinary Sunday Mass schedules: see Arlington Parishes and Neighboring Dioceses.

Ember Wednesday of Advent, December 17

• Diocese of Arlington

  • St. John the Beloved, McLean

    • Sung Missa aurea at 5 a.m.

• Otherwise: ordinary Wednesday Mass schedule (click here for Arlington; click here for elsewhere)

Ember Friday of Advent, December 19

• Nothing announced outside of the ordinary Friday Mass schedule (click here for Arlington; click here for elsewhere)

Ember Saturday of Advent, December 20

• Diocese of Arlington

  • St. John the Beloved, McLean

    • Missa lecta (short form of Ember Saturday) at 7 a.m.

• Otherwise: ordinary Saturday Mass schedule (click here for Arlington; click here for elsewhere)

Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 21

• Ordinary Saturday Mass schedule (click here for Arlington; click here for elsewhere)

  • Correction: a previous version of this schedule erroneously listed this as a Gotcha! Sunday for St. John the Beloved. That is not the case; SJB's December Gotcha! will be Sun. Dec. 28.

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