Announcements

The First Sunday after CHRISTMAS 🎄 will be commemorated as well.

It will be the fourth day of the twelve days of Christmas. 

May all your darkest days nonetheless be merry and bright with the Light of Christ.

CHRISTMAS 🎄 EVE: 5:30 p.m.

CHRISTMAS 🎄 DAY 10:00 a.m.

Saturday 11:00 a.m., Requiem Don Dammen

Dear Friends, 

Christmas Eve is upon us tonight, a celebration of the glorious gift of birth and life, a gift of God so great that He, in His profound and mysterious Wisdom, found it best to achieve our salvation from sin and death first by being born into the world as one of us. 

But, as Eliot has one of the Magi put it, "I had seen birth and death, but had thought they were different." After Christ's death, they are not. Rather, each is the doorway to a new kind and phase of existence. 

The phrase "heavenly birthday" originally meant the day of our death. It is meet, right and proper that we should think of it so.

Our Brother in Christ, Don, has had his and is now enjoying the bliss of closeness to his Saviour's face and voice. We will mark that in our service in his memory this Saturday at 11, and also thereby prepare ourselves for when we shall follow him into the loving arms of Christ Jesus, Resurrected and Ascended.

Let us share all these services together as a community of believers in Jesus and friends of one another. 

God bless us, every one!

Fr. Mike

Dear Friends,

The Living Creche Liturgy will be the first part of our service tomorrow. A variation on the service of Lessons & Carols, nothing tells the Christmas story more completely. Please don't miss it. It's the perfect preparation for Advent's end and the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord.

There will be a parish luncheon of deli sandwiches and salad after Mass.

Our Christmas services will be:

Eve, 5:30 p.m.

Day, 10:00 a.m.

Our Bible Studies will be on hiatus until January 7th at 6:30 p.m. 

GOD bless us every one!

Fr. Mike