Christmas services - 2009
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Thursday, December 24, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
Family Eucharist - Child Care Available
Thursday, December 24, 2009, 10:40 p.m.
Carol Singing
Thursday, December 24, 2009, 11:00 p.m.
A candle-lit nave and sanctuary and choral and organ music are distinctive features of this Christmas Eve Choral Eucharist which concludes after midnight with the singing of the carol "Silent night, holy night..."
Friday, December 25, 2009, 10:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist
1st Sunday of Christmas, December 27, 2009
8:00
a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite I
10:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II
2nd Sunday of Christmas, January 3, 2010
8:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, Rite I
9:00 a.m. Christian Education - All Ages
10:15 a.m. Christmas Lessons and Carols
Christmas
Festival of Lessons and Carols
Sunday, January 3, 2010, 10:15 a.m.
This service was first introduced many years ago at Truro Cathedral in England and then later, at King's College Cambridge. Since then, it has been sung there annually on Christmas Eve and through recordings and broadcasts, it has become famous and cherished throughout the Christian world. Traditionally, the lessons are read in a defined order by members of the congregation holding various positions and ending with the rector or bishop. Special arrangements of appropriate hymns, carols and anthems by the choir highlight the enfolding Christmas story.