Festival of Lessons & Carols and Parish Dinner

Please join us in celebrating the Advent✝️ and Christmas 🎄 seasons with a parish dinner 🍽️ at the St. Mary Activity Center at 5:00 PM on Sunday, 12/14/25, followed by a beautiful Festival of Lessons & Carols in St. Mary Church at 7:00 PM. Music will be provided by our PSR students, combined parish choirs, and our chamber choir, Vox Gaudium 🎶.

Music will include beloved Advent and Christmas carols, and all are invited to sing along! Our choirs will also present beautiful choral works of the season by John Rutter, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Paul Wohlgemuth, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Lessons will include scripture readings 📖 to help us meditate on the announcement and birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ ☩. What better way to keep Christ in Christmas?

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