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 **