Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

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April 5th, 2020, Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.

CLICK HERE for the Readings of April 5th, 2020.  Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion

SELECT HERE to print or view the Paim Sunday program so you can follow along during the Saint Boniface Mass.

Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of Lent, the beginning of Holy Week, and commemorates the triumphant arrival of Christ in Jerusalem, days before he was crucified. By 10:30 AM on April 5th, 2020, we will post on our website the Saint Boniface Mass with Fr. Anthony as the celebrant. 
SELECT HERE to print or view the Paim Sunday program so you can follow along during the Mass.

Holy Thursday is the celebration of Christ's Last Supper with His disciples.
Fr. Anthony is the celebrant for the Mass which will be posted on our website by 7:00PM on Holy Thursday, April 9th, 2020.

Good Friday is the day on which Catholics commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
​Fr. Anthony is the celebrant for the Liturgy Service which will be posted on our website by 7:00PM on Good Friday, April 10th, 2020. 

  The Easter Vigil Mass is one of the most beautiful and sacred Masses of the year.  Light of Hope. ​
Fr. Anthony is the celebrant for the Mass which will be posted on our website by 7:30PM on Easter Vigil, Saturday, April 11th, 2020.

Easter is the celebration of the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
On Sunday, April 12th 2020, we will post on our website, the Easter Sunday Mass from the Vatican and the Easter Sunday Mass from the Diocese of Worcester.  
We will also have posted the Easter Vigil Mass from Saint Boniface with Fr. Anthony as the celebrant.

Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion is April 5th, 2020.


Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of Lent, the beginning of Holy Week, and commemorates the triumphant arrival of Christ in Jerusalem, days before he was crucified.

Palm Sunday is known as such because the faithful will often receive palm fronds which they use to participate in the reenactment of Christ's arrival in Jerusalem. In the Gospels, Jesus entered Jerusalem riding a young donkey, and to the lavish praise of the townspeople who threw clothes, or possibly palms or small branches, in front of him as a sign of homage. This was a customary practice for people of great respect.

Palm branches are widely recognized symbol of peace and victory, hence their preferred use on Palm Sunday.

The use of a donkey instead of a horse is highly symbolic, it represents the humble arrival of someone in peace, as opposed to arriving on a steed in war.

Exult greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem!  Behold: your king is coming to you, a just savior is he, Humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey...and he will proclaim peace to the nations.  His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.  Zechariah 9:9-10

A week later, Christ would rise from the dead on the first Easter.

“Holy Week, which for Christians is the most important week of the year, gives us the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the central events of the Redemption, to relieve the Paschal Mystery, the great Mystery of faith. . .
May divine grace open our hearts to an understanding of the invaluable gift of salvation, obtained for us by Christ’s sacrifice.”

- Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, April 8, 2009