Father Jose Felix Ortega, L.C., pastor of St. Peter and St. Denis parish in Yonkers, offers his blessing in an outdoor procession before a noon Mass, one of two Palm Sunday Spanish-language liturgies offered at that hour to meet the needs of the sizable congregation there.
MARIA R. BASTONE
A parishioner holds up palms while praying during Palm Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s Church in Yonkers April 9.
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Children wait outside St. Peter’s Church to have their palms blessed.
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Parishioners lift their palms to be blessed outside St. Peter’s Church before proceeding inside for Mass.
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Palm crosses are assembled outside St. Peter's Church.
Father Jose Felix Ortega, L.C., pastor of St. Peter and St. Denis parish in Yonkers, celebrated a noon Mass there on Palm Sunday, April 9. It was one of two Palm Sunday Spanish-language liturgies offered at the church at that hour to meet the needs of the sizable congregation.