Above: There are many options in town for readers looking to attend special Easter Services. (images edited from church websites and social media)
For many readers, Easter is about more than bunnies and baskets filled with candy.
I’m sharing details below on special services the churches in town are holding today (Good Friday) through Easter Sunday (April 5th).1
The United Parishes of Southborough’s annual Easter Sunrise Service will take place at Hopkinton State Park in the marina area at 6:30 am. This year, Pilgrim Church’s Reverend Charley Eastman will be preaching.
The backup location in inclement weather is at First Community Church, 137 Southville Road.
(For those unfamiliar, the United Parishes is a charitable religious organization serving the Southborough community that is through a partnership between First Community Church, Pilgrim Church, St. Anne Church, St. Mark, and St. Matthew Church.)
Now here is the information that each Southborough church has posted/shared about their individual services and celebrations over Holy Week.
First Community Church (website)
(A Protestant church)
- Easter Sunday, 11:00 am in the sanctuary with music
Pilgrim Congregational Church (website)
(A congregation of the United Church of Christ)
- Easter Sunday:
- 8:15 – 9:30 am – Easter Family Breakfast
- 10:00 – 11:00 am – Service
- 11:00 – 11:30 am – Easter Egg Hunt
St Anne’s Church (website)
(A Catholic parish)
- Good Friday:
- Stations of the Cross, 3:00 pm
- Veneration of the Cross, 7:30 pm
- Holy Saturday, 7:30 pm – Easter Vigil (No 5:00 pm mass)
- Easter Sunday:
- 8:30 am Mass
- 10:30 am Mass
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (website)
(An Episcopalian church)
- Good Friday:
- 12:00 pm – Stations of the Cross
- 7:00 pm – Good Friday Liturgy
- Easter Sunday Services:
- 8:00 am – Spoken Holy Eucharist
- 9:00 am – Festival Eucharist with Organ, Choir and Trumpet (identical to 11:00 am service)
- 10:10 am – Children’s Easter Egg Hunt
- 11:00 am – Festival Eucharist with Organ, Choir and Trumpet (identical to 9:00 am service)
St. Matthew’s Church (website)
(A Catholic parish)
- Good Friday:
- 3:00 pm – Stations of the Cross
- 7:00 pm – Passion of the Lort
- Holy Saturday, 7:00 pm – Easter Vigil Mass
- Easter Sunday:
- 7:30 am Mass of the Resurrection
- 10:30 am Mass of the Resurrection
- No evening mass
Chinese Gospel Church
(A non-denominational Christian church) (website)
- Easter Sunday, Joint English, Mandarin, and Cantonese service (I couldn’t find a specified the time for this service, but regular Sunday worship times are 9:45 – 11:10 am)
