From Laureen Miles Brunelli,
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This is small cross-section of Easter services in the Baltimore area. Check out this list of Baltimore churches for more options.

Easter Services

Baltimore Basilica
Cathedral & Mulberry Sts.
Mount Vernon
410-727-3565
Easter: Mass schedule is 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m. (Latin), 10:45 a.m. (choir), 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Holy Saturday: Blessing of the Easter Foods. This Easter tradition, which is most popular in Eastern European countries, will take place at 12:30 p.m.

Bethel AME Church
1300 Druid Hill Avenue
410-523-4273
Easter: This church at Druid Hill Avenue and Lanvale Street has Easter services, dubbed "Resurrection Sunday," at 6, 8, 10 a.m. and noon. They promise to be a musical events with Outreach of Love Choir.

Christ Lutheran Church
701 South Charles St.
Inner Harbor
410-752-7179
Easter: "Festival Eucharist," which is a more elaborate, celebratory service, is at 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Music is choir, timpani and organ. Good Friday: Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion is sung (in English) by the Bach Choir and the congregation at 7:30 p.m.

Grace Fellowship Church
9505 Deereco Rd.
Timonium
410-561-8424
Easter: Four of the six Easter services include a simultaneous children's program. However kids are welcome to join their parents at the main service. Saturday 4:30, 6, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday 8, 9:30, 11 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

Memorial Episcopal Church
1407 Bolton St.
Bolton Hill
410-669-0220
Easter: Four Easter morning services are followed by its regular Sunday evening Taizé prayer service at 7 p.m. The Taizé service is based on the meditative worship of an ecumenical monastic community in France. The service includes a Gospel reading or a short meditation, then an extended period for individual reflection. Songs are simple, repetitive, melodic chants.

Rosedale Baptist Church
9202 Philadelphia Rd.
Rosedale
Easter Sunday services at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. both include the Lord's Supper and a choir Easter cantata.

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church
120 N. Front St.
Jonestown
Easter: Beginning Saturday at 9 p.m., parishioners meet for an all-night vigil that includes hourly prayer and a bonfire and ends with Easter Mass at 8:30 a.m. followed by a hearty breakfast.

Zion Lutheran Church
400 E. Lexington St.
Downtown
Offering an English (11:15 a.m.) and German (9:15 a.m.) service every Sunday, this church, established in the 18th century, has a choir made up of professionals and volunteers. Easter breakfast is after the German-language service.

Religious Organizations:

• Baltimore Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church
• Christian Science Churches of Maryland
• Delaware- Maryland Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Churches
• Espicopal Diocese of Maryland
• Presbytery of Baltimore
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore

More Individual Churches:

• Baltimore Chinese Baptist Church - Overlea
• Bethel Assembly of God – Sparrows Point
• Bishop Cummins Memorial Church, Reformed Episcopal – Catonsville
• Central Presbyterian Church – Towson
• Christian Temple, Disciples of Christ - Catonsville
• The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer - Towson
• First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ - Roland Avenue
• Greater Baltimore Church of Christ - Reisterstown
• Mount Calvary Church, Anglo-Catholic - downtown
• Nathareth Lutheran, Missouri Synod - Highlandtown
• New Psalmist Baptist Church - West Baltimore
• Old Otterbein Church, United Methodist - Otterbein
• Old St. Paul's, Episcopal – Mount Vernon
• Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church – Catonsville
• Unity Fellowship Church of Baltimore - Mount Vernon
• Valley Baptist Church - Lutherville
• Woodbrook Baptist Church – Northern Baltimore