For 16 years Jennifer Pascual, the music director for St. Patrick’s Cathedral, has arrived early on Easter Sunday, often at 6:30 a.m., just after sunrise, when she could still manage to find parking on East 51st Street.

At 9 a.m., she would try to squeeze in one more rehearsal with the choir. By 10:15, with more than 2,000 worshipers filling the church, she would lead the singers, the organist, a brass quintet, a percussionist, musicians on the harp and the flute in an exultant liturgical performance that is the musical pinnacle of the cathedral’s year.

But not this year.

The doors of St. Patrick’s are now locked to the public. The coronavirus pandemic means that this Easter Sunday there will be no congregants in the pews, no choristers to conduct, no sharp retorts from the brass to herald the New Testament’s recounting of the resurrection of Christ.

This year, the roster of musicians is now down to two — a cantor and an organist — and there will only be two Masses on Sunday, not the usual eight or nine. But the 10 a.m. Mass, to be led by the Cardinal Timothy Dolan, will be televised and streamed live, a broadcast that is likely to draw a significant audience. Fewer than 600 people would tune in to watch the cathedral’s Sunday Mass streams before the pandemic, said Joe Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York — and that number was up to more than 100,000 on Palm Sunday.