Spiritual and religious services

Spiritual Care

The goal of Spiritual Care at Mayo Clinic is to support people’s spiritual well-being for healing and growth. This includes their beliefs, faiths, cultures, values and religious practices. We believe these are important resources for health and recovery.

Mayo Clinic and its hospital campuses offer the services of a chaplain for patients and visitors.

Chaplains are available to:

Listen and offer spiritual and emotional support.
Accompany those in crisis or grief.
Share prayer and sacraments and lead worship.
Reflect and consult on ethical concerns and decisions.

Contacting a chaplain

Chaplains are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To arrange a visit, call Spiritual Care at 507-255-5780 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. After hours and on weekends, call the Mayo Clinic operator at 507-284-2511 and ask to speak to a chaplain.

If you are a patient or visitor at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus, or Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, you can ask your nurse to page the on-call chaplain at any time.

Chaplain Services offices are located at:

Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus, Eisenberg Building, Second Floor, 2-130.
Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Joseph Building, Main Floor, Room M-61.

Religious services

Mayo Clinic offers religious and spiritual support for many denominations and in many locations on both hospital campuses and throughout its clinical buildings in Rochester.

Saint Marys Chapel at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus

Interdenominational

Worship services

Saint Marys Chapel, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Domitilla Building, First Floor: 10:45 a.m. Sunday

Mayo Clinic Television (MCTV) broadcasts these services live.

Communion

Communion in patient rooms is available at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus, and Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus. To request communion, contact your nurse.

Anointing the sick

A chaplain is available at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist and Saint Marys campuses, for individual anointing on request. To request anointing, contact your nurse.

Stained-glass window in the chapel at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus

Catholic

Mass schedule

Saint Marys Chapel, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Domitilla Building, First Floor: 8:30 a.m. Sunday and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Chapel at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus, Eisenberg Building, Second Floor: 3:30 pm Sunday through Friday.

Mayo Clinic Television broadcasts these services live.

Holy Communion

Holy Communion in patient rooms is available for patients who are Catholic at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, and Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus. To request communion, contact your nurse.

Anointing the sick

A priest is available at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus, and Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, for individual anointing on request. To request anointing, contact your nurse.

Sacrament of reconciliation

A priest is available at both hospital campuses for individual confession on request. To request the sacrament of reconciliation, contact your nurse.

Additional worship services

Contact Spiritual Care at 507-255-5780.

Chapels and meditation spaces

Mayo Clinic invites people of all faiths and traditions to its worship and meditation spaces.

Chapels

All chapels are open 24 hours a day. Patients can visit chapels in their hospital attire. You can write daily prayer requests in a book located in the chapels so others can pray for them. All chapels have spiritual support booklets, called Care Notes.

Chapel at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Methodist Campus

Located in the Eisenberg Building, Second Floor. It’s open 24 hours a day for prayer and reflection.

Saint Marys Chapel, Saint Marys Campus

Located at the east end of the Domitilla Building, First Floor. It's open 24 hours a day for prayer and reflection.

Saint Francis Chapel, Saint Marys Campus

Located in the Francis Building, Fifth Floor, Tower Section. It’s open 24 hours a day for prayer and reflection. No scheduled services are held in the chapel.

Worship and meditative spaces

Groves Foundation Meditation Room, Saint Marys Campus

Groves Foundation Meditation Room

Located in the Mary Brigh Building, Seventh Floor. It’s available 24 hours a day for people of all faith traditions. This area, which faces east, is designed for quiet time, prayer and meditation.

The Saint Francis Peace Garden, Saint Marys Campus

Saint Francis Peace Garden

Located on the west side of the Generose Building. It’s open from dawn to dusk during the spring, summer and fall. You are welcome to use the garden for meditation and reflection.

Mayo Center for the Spirit, Mayo Building

Mayo Center for the Spirit

Located in the Mayo Building, Subway Level. It’s available from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The center is a quiet space designed for prayer, meditation and reflection.