When: Sunday, April 1, 2012.
Web: The St Luke's parish website is here.
We attended 8:30am Mass at this parish church in the Glendale neighborhood in the southeast of the city. The congregation for this first Mass of Palm Sunday was about eighty strong - aside from us, exclusively black. The congregation was middle-aged and elderly. A single priest celebrated Mass, with the assistance of a cantor, pianist, two altar servers, and two readers.
The priest gave an introductory homily and blessed the palms before Mass formally started. The priest, readers, and congregation participated in reading the lengthy gospel of Mark reading. The priest's (main) homily focused on Peter, Judas, and Pontius Pilate - three characters from the gospel that made their own choices to disown Jesus. We, too, have the choice to accept or reject Jesus in our own lives. The rest of the Mass followed the Standard Rite.