Order Your Easter Lilies & Palm Crosses

Order Easter lilies and palm crosses

Our Easter Lily Sale and Palm Cross Event is Back!

ORDER BY APRIL 8

Our annual Palm Sunday Easter Lily and Palm Cross Sale is back. This popular event supports care of the historic Franciscan Monastery gardens and our farm-fresh food donation program.

Lilies and palm crosses are just $12 for pick-up or $11 for donation. Pre-order your Easter lilies by April 8 for pick-up on Palm Sunday Weekend (April 12, 10-6 and April 13, 9-3) at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America, 1400 Quincy St. NE, Washington, DC 20017.

Plus, remember your loved ones this Easter by donating Easter lilies and palm crosses that will be placed at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land. Their names will be placed in a prayer registry at the Monastery, in an online tribute on this website starting Palm Sunday, and remembered in the friars’ prayers at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America at Easter.

Download our flyer with mail–in order form.

Blessing and Lighting of the Luminaria

25th annual Seven Nights of Lights

From Christmas Eve to New Year’s Eve, the Rosary Portico that surrounds the upper garden and the Portiuncula Chapel at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America glow with the light from luminaria — each of which lists the name of a loved one being remembered or honored.

See the names of those honored on our Luminaria Tribute page. They will be remembered in the friars’ daily prayers from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Eve.

Luminaria Tributes

Dec. 24: Come to the Blessing and Lighting of the Luminaria

Join us at the Franciscan Monastery, 1400 Quincy St. NE, Washington, DC 20017, on Christmas Eve at noon for the traditional blessing and lighting of the luminaria. (You can help light the candles!)

  • The monastery gardens and chapel with the luminaria are open daily for visits from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Eve, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
  • Evening hours: Friday, Dec. 27, the upper garden will remain open until 7 p.m.
  • Parking is free at the lot across from the main entrance and St. Francis Hall.

Thank you for your support and have a Blessed Advent and Christmas.