Advent is Coming!

This morning we woke up to much colder weather and also probably the first snow.  This is a sure sign that the season of Advent and Christmas is just around the corner.  Advent is a very busy time for anyone who works in the church, but it is a beautiful time.  The music is soft and reflective and speaks to the readings of the Advent Sunday.  We hear of the end times, and of John the Baptist, and especially of Mary during the last two weeks of Advent.

Mark your calendars for a very special event being presented for the first time at St. Therese. A Festival of Lessons and Carols is Monday evening, December 19th, at 7PM with string quintet music at 6:45PM.

Lessons and Carols is a beautiful candle-lit service which is presented around the time of Christmas.  It has a long history, beginning in England in the early 1800s, and continued to this day.

Lessons and Carols is not precisely a Christmas Concert, although you will experience beautiful Advent/Christmas music. 

The audience is invited to sing throughout,

but it is not a Christmas Carol sing-a long either.

The lessons are six readings from the Old Testament and the New Testament, concluding with the reading of Joseph taking Mary into his home. 

After each lesson, there is music:  solos and also Advent/Christmas hymns for you to sing with the choirs and instrumentalists.

After A FESTIVAL OF Lessons and Carols,

you are invited to a reception in the Parish Hall.

No charge, but a free will offering will be taken up

to benefit the Saint Vincent de Paul Society of Saint Therese Parish.

Mark Your Calendar!

Come and bring your family and friends!