Bishop Lohse has called for Stational Masses to be celebrated on the Thursdays in Lent - church locations and dates are listed below. 

Stational or station churches are churches in Rome designated to be the special location for worship on a particular day. This practice dates back to the early centuries of the Church. The Pope (or his legate) would celebrate solemn Mass in one after another of the four greater and the three minor basilicas during the 4th and 5th centuries (the seven churches or Sette Chiese — St. John Lateran, St. Peter, St. Paul Outside the Walls, St. Mary Major, the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, St. Lawrence, and the Twelve Apostles). Other churches were added to list as needed for various liturgical occasions, bringing the total number of churches to 45, with the last two (Santa Agatha and Santa Maria Nuova, called Santa Franciscan Romana) added by Pope Pius XI on March 5, 1934. When the popes started residing in Avignon, France in 1305, the popularity of this devotion declined until recently.

On the day of the station, the faithful would gather in one church (church of the collecta or gathering) and in procession singing the Litany of the Saints or psalms, they would go to the church where the Mass was to be celebrated: there they met the Pope and his clergy, coming in state from his Patriarchal Palace of the Lateran. This was called "making the station." Such a Mass was a "conventual mass" (or community Mass) of the City and the world, Urbi et Orbi (the visible congregation in Rome and the invisible audience of the entire world). This old custom reminds us that Rome is the center of Christian worship, from which we received our faith and our liturgy.

There is not always a Papal Mass in the stational church, but the stational procession and Mass have been restored at Rome, especially in Lent when each day has its proper Station and Mass. On Ash Wednesday the station at Santa Sabina Church is the most important of all, because the Pope still gathers there and distributes ashes to the people. [Stational Mass Background Source: Catholic Culture]

Following is the schedule for the 2026 Lenten Season Stational Masses: 

Each Mass will be held on a Thursday and begins at 5:30 p.m. and will be celebrated by Bishop Lohse or his designate.

February 19 - St. Augustine Cathedral Parish, Kalamazoo

February 26 - St. Thomas More Student Parish, Kalamazoo

March 5 - St. Monica Parish, Kalamazoo 

March 12 - St. Catherine Siena Parish, Portage

March 19 - St. Joseph Parish, Kalamazoo

March 26 - St. Mary Parish, Kalamazoo

April 2 - Holy Thursday Mass at St. Augustine Cathedral