Special Festival Services

October 7,  5 pm - The Solemnity of St. Francis  A festive service featuring our children’s choir, “Verae Voces,” directed by Sarah Little, with The Blessing of the Animals.

November 4,  8:40 am & 11:05 am  - The Solemnity of All Saints  Celebrating the communion of saints, with festival hymns and anthems for children’s and adult choirs and congregation.

December 2,  8:40 and 11:05 am   - Advent Lessons and Carols 
Advent carols and anthems sung by choirs and congregation, followed by Holy Eucharist.

December 24 - Christmas  Eve
3 pm -
A family service with carols for congregation children, and organ.

5 pm & 10:30 pm - Festival Eucharist with carols for choir and congregation.

January 6,  8:40 am & 11:05 pm - Epiphany Procession 
A festive service for choir and congregation celebrating the three miracles of the Epiphany.

January 20,  8:40 am & 11:05 am -  The Solemnity of  Martin Luther King, Jr.
A festival liturgy with national songs for congregation and choir honoring the legacy of Dr. King.

March 6 - The Solemn Liturgy of Ash Wednesday
12 Noon -
A spoken penitential liturgy.

6:30 pm - The solemn liturgy with choir, including Allegri’s “Miserere.”

April 18:,  6:30 pm - Maundy Thursday
Holy Eucharist with choir, including the Stripping of the Altar and all-night vigil.

April 19 - The Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday

12 Noon -  A spoken penitential liturgy.

6:30 pm  - The solemn liturgy with choir, including “The Reproaches” in crucifix procession.

April 20,  6:30 pm - The Great Vigil of Easter A family centered liturgy, with Holy Baptism and the first Eucharist of Easter, led by “Verae Voces,” directed by Sarah Little.

 

April 21,  8:40 am & 11:05 am - Easter: The Resurrection of Our Lord
Festal Eucharist with music by the Choirs of St. James’, the Capital Brass, and Organ.