When: Sunday, April 24th 2011.
Web: The ADW listing for the parish is here; it's own website is here.
We attended the 11:00am Easter Sunday Mass at this church in the Atlas District. A single priest celebrated the service, assisted by an altar server, two lectors, an eight-member choir/band, and two Eucharistic ministers. The congregation was large, about a hundred; hard to know if this was a regular number or a larger turn out for Easter. The congregation was largely black, though with some Hispanic and white members as well. Notably for a gospel choir, there were two white singers.
The Mass followed the standard rite, though augmented by a baptism after the homily. Both the host and wine were offered for Holy Communion. The priest focused his homily on the distinctive nature of Christ's death and resurrection, noting that they make Christianity unique amongst world religions. He referred to St Ignatius' writings on the resurrection, especially his description of Christ's first meeting with His mother, Mary, after the resurrection. The priest opined that Mary was not present at the tomb - perhaps contrary to what one would expect - because she understood and had abolsute faith in Scripture. The priest ended his homily by noting that we are required to keep the Sabbath holy and attend Mass - but that it just the minimum requirement, we are expected to live our faith as well.