Join us for Christmas Eve. The Midnight Mass includes well-known carols for congregation, Christmas carols and music by our full choir and instrumentalists, sermon by our Rector, and Holy Communion.
December 24, 10pm – 9:45 pm Carols with Strings Prelude
With the Parish Choir & Modus Operandi Chamber Orchestra
Christians began celebrating the birth of Jesus on December 25 near the beginning of the fourth century. By the beginning of the fifth century, a midnight celebration on Christmas Eve was held in Rome and spread throughout Western Europe. Christmas Masses soon became among the most beloved services of the year for Christians. The gospels of Matthew and Luke both record the story of Christ’s birth. John’s gospel begins with a proclamation on the meaning of it.