Christmas Eve Services & Noonday Organ Music for the 12 Days of Christmas

 Below, you will find the links for today's Christmas Eve Services.  

In addition, for each day of the 12 Days of Christmas, beginning tomorrow, the 25th, Jonathan Stark has recorded a piece of organ music which will be posted each day at noon. 

Find them on our YouTube Channel HERE

Merry Christmas!

O God, you have caused this holy night to shine with the brightness of the true Light:

Grant that we, who have known the mystery of that Light on earth,

may also enjoy him perfectly in heaven;

where with you and the Holy Spirit he lives and reigns,

one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

☩ Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road ☩ 

Online Christmas Eve Services

On our YouTube Channel

December 24, 2020 ~ 3pm ~ Christmas Eve Organ Concert

Part One: Click HERE

or https://youtu.be/-xRIIxlGbjg

Part Two: Click HERE

or https://youtu.be/7dYZqhAwQVQ

December 24, 2020 ~ 4pm ~ Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist

Click HERE

YouTube https://youtu.be/aGKxMGlqcl0

Click HERE to download the Service Bulletin

December 24, 2020 ~ 5pm ~ "The Nativity" Story

 Our Rector, the Rev. Peter M. Carey, reads the story of the Nativity 

Click HERE

December 24, 2020 ~ Story of Jesus Birth and the Three Wise Men, by Desmond Tutu

Our Rector, the Rev. Peter M. Carey, reads from Desmond Tutu's Children's Bible

Click HERE

December 24, 2020 ~ 6:30pm ~ Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist 

Click HERE

YouTube https://youtu.be/chDvz7jxkc8

Click HERE to download the Service Bulletin

Wishing you all Peace, Joy, Hope, and Love!

Merry Christmas! 

The Rev. Peter M. Carey, Rector

St. Mary's Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road

www.stmaryscathedralroad.com/

revpetermcarey@gmail.com

434-242-6633

Christmas Eve Services & Noonday Organ Music for the 12 Days of Christmas

 Below, you will find the links for today's Christmas Eve Services.  

In addition, for each day of the 12 Days of Christmas, beginning tomorrow, the 25th, Jonathan Stark has recorded a piece of organ music which will be posted each day at noon. 

Find them on our YouTube Channel HERE

Merry Christmas!

O God, you have caused this holy night to shine with the brightness of the true Light:

Grant that we, who have known the mystery of that Light on earth,

may also enjoy him perfectly in heaven;

where with you and the Holy Spirit he lives and reigns,

one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

☩ Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road ☩ 

Online Christmas Eve Services

On our YouTube Channel

December 24, 2020 ~ 3pm ~ Christmas Eve Organ Concert

Part One: Click HERE

or https://youtu.be/-xRIIxlGbjg

Part Two: Click HERE

or https://youtu.be/7dYZqhAwQVQ

December 24, 2020 ~ 4pm ~ Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist

Click HERE

YouTube https://youtu.be/aGKxMGlqcl0

Click HERE to download the Service Bulletin

December 24, 2020 ~ 5pm ~ "The Nativity" Story

 Our Rector, the Rev. Peter M. Carey, reads the story of the Nativity 

Click HERE

December 24, 2020 ~ Story of Jesus Birth and the Three Wise Men, by Desmond Tutu

Our Rector, the Rev. Peter M. Carey, reads from Desmond Tutu's Children's Bible

Click HERE

December 24, 2020 ~ 6:30pm ~ Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist 

Click HERE

YouTube https://youtu.be/chDvz7jxkc8

Click HERE to download the Service Bulletin

Wishing you all Peace, Joy, Hope, and Love!

Merry Christmas! 

The Rev. Peter M. Carey, Rector

St. Mary's Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road

www.stmaryscathedralroad.com/

revpetermcarey@gmail.com

434-242-6633

Christmas Eve Services

 Below, you will find the links for today's Christmas Eve Services.  

Also, for each day of the 12 Days of Christmas, beginning tomorrow, the 25th, Jonathan Stark has recorded a piece of organ music which will be posted at noon.  Find them on our YouTube Channel HERE

Merry Christmas!

O God, you have caused this holy night to shine

with the brightness of the true Light:

Grant that we, who have known the mystery of that Light on earth,

may also enjoy him perfectly in heaven;

where with you and the Holy Spirit he lives and reigns,

one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

☩ Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road ☩ 

Online Christmas Eve Services

On our YouTube Channel

December 24, 2020 ~ 3pm ~ Christmas Eve Organ Concert

Part One: Click HERE

or https://youtu.be/-xRIIxlGbjg

Part Two: Click HERE

or https://youtu.be/7dYZqhAwQVQ

December 24, 2020 ~ 4pm ~ Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist

Click HERE

YouTube https://youtu.be/aGKxMGlqcl0

Click HERE to download the Service Bulletin

December 24, 2020 ~ 5pm ~ "The Nativity" Story

 Our Rector, the Rev. Peter M. Carey, reads the story of the Nativity 

Click HERE

December 24, 2020 ~ Story of Jesus Birth and the Three Wise Men, by Desmond Tutu

Our Rector, the Rev. Peter M. Carey, reads from Desmond Tutu's Children's Bible

Click HERE

December 24, 2020 ~ 6:30pm ~ Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist 

Click HERE

YouTube https://youtu.be/chDvz7jxkc8

Click HERE to download the Service Bulletin

Wishing you all Peace, Joy, Hope, and Love!

Merry Christmas! 

The Rev. Peter M. Carey, Rector

St. Mary's Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road

www.stmaryscathedralroad.com/

revpetermcarey@gmail.com

434-242-6633

"Santa visits St. Catherine's School back in 2007"

 "Santa visits St. Catherine's School back in 2007"

A visit from Saint Nicholas

   

A Visit from Saint Nicholas
Clement Clarke Moore

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds;

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,

Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,

Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,

When what to my wondering eyes did appear,

But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,

With a little old driver so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,

And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:

"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donner and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;

So up to the housetop the coursers they flew

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too—

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my head, and was turning around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,

And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack.

His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly

That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—

“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”