The feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (Santu Kruċ) is today being celebrated with solemnity by the collegiate basilica dedicated to St Helen in Birkirkara.
Mass at Tal-Ħerba Sanctuary will be said as usual: 6am, 7am, 7.45am and at 9am.
5.45pm: preposital second vespers; 6pm: preposital Holy Mass with a panaegyric by Fr Joe Buttigieg OFM Cap.; 7pm: procession with the reliquary of the Veru Lignum and the titular statue of St Helen accompanied by the Duke of Connaught’s Own Band.
When the titular statue re-enters the basilica, the Antiphon will be played and there will be a blessing with the Veru Lignum.