Where and when to worship during Easter and Passover on Longboat Key

By Petra Rivera
| 5:00 a.m. March 25, 2024

Rev. Brock Patterson, Rev. Jeffrey Nunes, Rev. Julia Piermont, Issac Azerad, Rev. David Marshall and Rabbi Stephen Sniderman

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Here is everything you need to know for the upcoming Easter and Passover seasons at the six Longboat Key houses of worship:

Longboat Island Chapel

6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Pastor Brock Patterson

March 29: 6 p.m. Good Friday Service
March 31: 7 a.m. Sunrise Service in the garden; 10 a.m. Easter Day Worship traditional service with orchestra

St. Armands Key Lutheran Church

40 North Adams Drive, Pastor Kenneth Blyth

March 28: Noon and 7 p.m. Maundy Thursday services
March 29: Noon and 7 p.m. Good Friday services
March 30: 7 p.m. Easter Vigil
March 31: 7 and 10 a.m. Easter services in the garden; 9 and 11 a.m. Easter services in the sanctuary with choir, festive brass and timpani

Christ Church of Longboat Key

6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Pastor Julia Piermont

March 28: 7:30 p.m. "As We've Been Done To" Maundy Thursday service at Communion Service remembering the Last Supper. The choir will sing "Hope of The World."
March 29: 7:30 p.m. Good Friday Tenebrae service with "Shadows of the Passion," a dramatic retelling of the drama leading to Jesus' crucifixion using narratives from scripture with musical commentary.
March 31: 10 a.m. Festival Easter service with choir, organ and trumpet

All Angels By the Sea Episcopal Church

563 Bay Isles Road, Pastor David Marshall

March 28: 4 p.m. Maundy Thursday service
March 29: Noon Good Friday service
March 31: 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Easter Sunday services

St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church

4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Pastor Robert Dziedziak

March 28: 4 p.m. Holy Thursday: The Mass of the Lord’s Supper (washing of the feet)
March 29: Noon, Stations of the Cross; 3 p.m. Good Friday: Venerations of the Cross liturgy
March 30: 10 a.m. Blessing of Easter Baskets; 6 p.m. Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil Mass
March 31: 7 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Easter Sunday Mass

Temple Beth Israel

567 Bay Isles Road, Rabbi Stephen Sniderman

April 22: 5:30 p.m. Passover Seder (Registration closes at noon April 12. There will be a waiting list available. Call the office at 383-3428.)
April 23: 10 a.m. Morning Pesach Service (temple office closed for the holiday)
April 26: 5:30 p.m. Regular Erev Shabbat Service
April 29: 10 a.m. Seventh Day morning service and Yizkor (temple office closed for the holiday)

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Petra Rivera

Petra Rivera is the Longboat community reporter. She holds a bachelor’s degree of journalism with an emphasis on reporting and writing from the University of Missouri. Previously, she was a food and drink writer for Vox magazine as well as a reporter for the Columbia Missourian.