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Holy Week and Easter telecasts from Rome, beginning with Pope Benedict XVI celebrating the Mass of Palm Sunday, March 16 at 1:30 a.m., with an encore telecast at 5 p.m. have been announced by Eternal Word Television Network.

Programming resumes on Holy Thursday, March 20, when Pope Benedict celebrates the Chrism Mass at 1:30 a.m. and the Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper at 9:30 a.m., with the latter encoring at 9 p.m.

On Good Friday the pontiff will preside at the celebration of the Lord's Passion, March 21 at 9 a.m., with an encore at 9 p.m. Viewers also will see the pope presiding over the Solemn Way of the Cross, March 21 at 5 p.m. Holy Saturday programming will focus on the pope offering the Easter Vigil Mass, March 22 at 1 p.m., with an encore at 9 p.m.

Easter telecasts will show the pope celebrating the Mass of the Resurrection, March 23 at 2:30 a.m., with an encore at 9 a.m. EWTN also will air Pope Benedict's Urbi et Orbi Easter Message and Blessing to the World, March 23 at 4 a.m., with encores March 23 at 10:30 a.m. and March 24 at 7 a.m.

EWTN will provide live coverage from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. of choral meditations and the Mass of the Lord's Supper, March 20 at 2:30 p.m.,and the Easter Vigil Mass, March 22 at 5 p.m. EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast Digital Channel 229; Astound Channel 80; San Bruno Cable Channel 143; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 370. Comcast airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County. Visit www.ewtn.com for more program information and any updates in coverage.