Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day Services & Epiphany Festival of Light

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nativityThere are two services on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2016. The family service is at 5 p.m. and children are invited to help arrange the nativity with the reading of the Christmas story. The music will include familiar hymns for all to sing and a solo by Bora Yoon, soprano. Festal Prelude Music is at 9:30 p.m. followed by Festal Eucharist with the full Ascension choir at 10:00 p.m. The music is listed on the right sidebar below. December 25th Christmas Day Holy Eucharist with Hymns at 11:00 a.m.

On New Year’s Day January 1, 2017 Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Lessons and Carols with Holy Eucharist at 11:00 a.m.

On January 6, 2017, Friday evening, everyone is invited to the Festival of Light celebration from 5:00 – 7:30 pm. There will be live circus acts, music on The Manton Memorial organ, refreshments and tours of our historic 175+ year old church. This is an open house reception and celebration of Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day. Here is a link to the parish Christmas & Epiphany Festival of Light Schedule.

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Parish News: May 24

In this week’s newsletter, the rector notes Pentecost’s reversal of Babel—not by restoring a single language, but by enabling understanding across difference as each speaks and hears in their own tongue. She treasures hearing parishioners read “God’s deeds of power” in many languages during worship, and invites us to consider what it means to speak of God in our own heart language—whether shaped by mother tongue, place, trust, or profound shared experience. In a time of contempt for difference, Pentecost reveals the blessing of many tongues and the Holy Spirit’s gift of mutual understanding across culture, faith, and ethnic background.

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