Christmas Season and Holiday Schedule

 

Watch Night, A Eucharist Service

Thursday, December 31, 11:00 pm

Celebrate with us as we commemorate the night when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

"Many of the Watch Night Services in Black communities that we celebrate today can be traced back to gatherings on December 31, 1862, also known as "Freedom's Eve." On that night, Americans of African descent came together in churches, gathering places and private homes throughout the nation, anxiously awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had become law. Then, at the stroke of midnight, it was January 1, 1863, and according to Lincoln's promise, all slaves in the Confederate States were legally free." (excerpt from a brief history by Charyn D. Sutton, 2004)

A Service of Eucharist

Friday, January 1, 10:30 am

Chapel of St. Martins

Dancing Day: A Sequence of Music and Readings for Christmas

Sunday, January 3, 4:00 pm (Evensong)

The Cathedral Choir of Girls, Boys and Adults offers a liturgy centered on the Christmas story and on Dancing Day, an exquisite cycle of carol arrangements by the famous British composer John Rutter.  Intersperesed with readings and congregational carols for the season, the six movements of Rutter's masterpiece will be accompanied by Anna Reinsersmann, famed New York City harpist. 

 

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Christmas Eve

The Cathedral is open from 7 am through the end of the late Christmas Eve mass
Thursday, December 24th
4:00 pm Service of Lessons and Carols (No passes are necessary)

10:30 pm- 12:45 am Festival Eucharist of Christmas (Passes are necessary)

• People without seating passes for the Christmas Eve Mass at 10:30 pm are welcome to find seats in the unreserved public seating area.  There is no special pass given out to be seated in that area.  Music begins at 10:00 pm, and people can arrive earlier to find unreserved seats. 

Christmas Day Eucharist
Friday, December 25, 10:30 am

 

An Advent Procession

Sunday, December 6, 4:00 pm (Evensong)

Experience the magic of the Advent season with this liturgy that moves us figuratively from darkness to light.  The Cathedral Choir of Girls, Boys and Adults leads us in carols as the procession, punctuated by readings and prayers, moves from corner to corner.

 

A Cathedral Christmas Concert

Saturday, December 12, 7:30 pm