Above: For many in town, this Sunday night is about a lot more than hanging the stockings by the chimney with care. (Photo posted to Flickr by Marcuss Hansson.)
Here are the masses and festivities planned by churches in town in honor of Christmas Eve and morning.
Christmas Eve Services
Sunday, December 24, 2017:
St. Anne Parish (website)
- Christmas Eve Mass: 5:00 and 11:00 pm
First Community Church (website)
- Christmas Eve Candlelight Service: 6:30 pm
Pilgrim Congregational Church (website)
- Pageant Service 6:30 pm
- Candlelight Service 10:00 pm
- Jesus’ Birthday Party 11:00 pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (website)
- Children’s Christmas Pageant with Eucharist: 4:00 pm
- Festival Holy Eucharist with Choir at 10:00 pm (music prelude begins at 9:45 pm)
Saint Matthew Parish (website)
- Nativity of the Lord, Vigil Mass with Children’s Pageant: 4:00 pm
- Nativity of the Lord, Vigil Masses: 5:30 pm and 10:00 pm
Chinese Gospel Church (website)
- LifeLight Christmas Sunday Worship, Candlelight worship with carols: 9:45 am.
Christmas Day Services
Sunday, December 25, 2016:
St. Anne Parish (website)
- Nativity of the Lord Christmas Day Masses: 9:00 and 11:00 am
First Community Church (website)
- Christmas Sunday Worship Service 11:00 am
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (website)
- Holy Eucharist with Carols: 10:00 am
Saint Matthew Parish (website)
- Nativity of the Lord Masses: 7:30 am (no music), 9:00 am, and 11:00 am
(Images of pageant shepherds from the website for St. Mark’s church – one of the three churches in Town holding an annual nativity Children’s Pageant)
Updated (12/22/17 11:08 am): I found information on the Chinese Gospel Church’s celebration
