The following Miami Lakes area churches have scheduled special services for the Easter season:
Our Lady of the Lakes, located at 6600 Miami Lakeway North, is celebrating Holy week with mass and confessions leading up to Easter Sunday. The church is holding Saturday confessions on Saturday, March 19 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. English vigil for Palm Sunday will take place on March 20 at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., and distribution of palms and mass at 5 p.m. Mass, or misas, in Spanish and distribution of palms will take place at 8 a.m., 12:45 p.m., and 7 p.m.
On Tuesday of Holy Week confessions will take place at 7 p.m. On Holy Thursday, a bilingual mass of the last supper with take place at 8 p.m. For Good Friday, Traditional Stations of the Cross in English is scheduled for 9 a.m. with reflections at 10 a.m. Traditional Stations in Spanish will be at 12 p.m. followed by a sermon in Spanish at 1 p.m.
Continuing on Good Friday is a devotional service to the Divine Mercy in English with Recitation of the Chaplet at 3 p.m. A bilingual liturgy of the Lord’s passion will be at 7 p.m.
On Holy Saturday a bilingual liturgy of the Easter vigil will take place at 8 p.m. and Easter Sunday will feature mass at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., and 5:30 p.m. with Spanish mass at 8 a.m., 12:45 p.m., and 7 p.m.
For more information, visit the church website at www.ollnet.com.
Palm Vista Community Church, which meets at Miami Lakes Middle School at 6425 Miami Lakeway North, will be holding a Good Friday service at 7:30 p.m. and a regularly scheduled Sunday Easter service at 10:30 a.m. For more information visit the church website at www.palmvista.org or call 305-822-6999.
Mother of Our Redeemer Catholic Church, located at 8445 N.W. 186 Street, will be holding Holy Week and Easter services beginning on Palm Sunday, March 20 to Easter Sunday, March 28. Mass will take place at the regularly scheduled times, Mondays through Fridays at 8:30 a.m. in Spanish, and Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in English and 7 p.m. in Spanish. On Sundays, mass in English takes place at 8 and 10:45 a.m. with Spanish mass at 9:15 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Confessions are held every Saturday from 4 to 4:45 p.m.
For more information, visit the church website at www.motherofourredeemer.org or call 305-829-6141.
Elevate Church, located at 6250 Miami Lakes Drive, is hosting a special Good Friday service on Friday, March 25, at 8 p.m. and Easter services with the largest Easter Egg Hunt in Miami Lakes with thousands of hidden eggs. The services and egg hunts take place on Saturday, March 26, and Sunday, March 27 at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., and 1 p.m. For more information call the church at 305-823-3888.