When: Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Web: The hospital's pastoral care page is located here.
We attended the 4pm Vigil mass in the hospital's main chapel. The chapel is in fact a multi-faith room, with materials from other religions on display. It is much smaller and less overtly Catholic than chapels at the nearby Washington Hospital Center and Veterans' Hospital.
A lone priest celebrated Mass for the congregation of five people. He asked a member of the congregation to serve as lector (no one volunteered to be cantor). The Mass followed the standard rite. The priest offered both bread and wine for the Eucharist. He focused his homily on the concept of a watchman. We are to watch over our own and others' faith, something increasingly hard to do in today's secular society, he said.