Advent & Christmas Worship Opportunities

Fourth Sunday of Advent - December 22
8:00 am
Advent Festival of Lessons and Canticles
9:30 am
Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols
followed by our Annual Church School Christmas Pageant and a light lunch in the Parish Hall
Christmas Eve
4:30pm
Family Christmas Celebration
A high-energy, joyous (and usually boisterous!) beginning to the Christmas season: familiar carols, the Nativity story and building of the crèche, ‘kid-friendly’ prayers, and a somewhat shorter liturgy
7:00pm
Traditional Christmas Eucharist
A festive celebration of the Great Feast of the Nativity, with the Chancel Choir offering their talents and gifts to help us joyously announce and celebrate the birth of the Messiah
Christmas Day
10:00am
Holy Eucharist
Enter into the quiet, meditative beauty of Christmas morning with a reflective celebration of the truth and hope and promise born in Jesus Christ
First Sunday After Christmas - December 29
** Note: ONE SERVICE this day! **
9:30am
Christmas Lessons & Carols with Holy Eucharist:
A Celebration of Thanksgiving and Hope for the New Year
Champagne and croissants as the Eucharistic meal mark the special joy and privilege of standing at the threshold of another year, followed by New Year’s toasts in the narthex * No nursery or Church School this day.
Second Sunday After Christmas - January 5
8:00am
Holy Eucharist
9:30am
Holy Eucharist (no church school classes this day)
First Sunday after the Epiphany January 12
8:00am
Holy Eucharist
followed by coffee, with King Cake, in the narthex
9:30am
Holy Eucharist
The entrance of the Three Kings closes the Nativity story and opens our Season of Light followed by the beginning of Messiah’s own Season of Carnivale with traditional King Cake!
** Note: No Church School classes this day **