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Advent & Christmas

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.
Isaiah 9:2

St. Paul's weekly services are Live Streamed HERE on our Facebook Group.
All are then posted on our website's Church Services page, for viewing as you wish.

Advent I, Sunday, November 29
First Sunday of the Church Year

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Mauricio J. Wilson, Rector

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Mauricio J. Wilson, Rector
Music Director: Christopher Kula. With St. Paul's Soloists.

Advent II, Sunday, December 8

The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."
8:00 am Morning Prayer
Preacher: The Rev. Anne Jensen, Assisting Priest

10:00 am Sung Matins
Preacher: The Rev. Anne Jensen, Assisting Priest
Music Director: Christopher Kula. With St. Paul's Soloists.


4:00 pm Advent Lessons & Carols
Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Mauricio J. Wilson, Rector
Music Director: Christopher Kula
Vocalists: Tonia D'Amelio, Asher Davison, Michael Desnoyers, Lauren McNulty, Philip Saunders, Rowan Taymuree


An Advent treat from Lessons & Carols

Hymn 57, Helmsley, descant Marlowe, Advent Lessons & Carols, Sunday, December 5, 2020. https://hymnary.org/hymn/EH1982/57hymnary.org/hymn/EH1982/57

Advent III, Sunday December 13, Gaudete Sunday

"‘I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming;
I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire."

8:00 am Holy Eucharist
Preacher: The Rev. Christian Harding, Assisting Priest
Celebrant: The Rev. Dr. Mauricio J. Wilson, Rector

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

Preacher: The Rev. Christian Harding, Assisting Priest
Celebrant: The Rev. Dr. Mauricio J. Wilson, Rector
Music Director: Christopher Kula. With St. Paul's Soloists.

Advent IV, Sunday December 20

Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.
 8:00 am Morning Prayer
Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Mauricio J. Wilson, Rector
Music Director: Christopher Kula. With St. Paul's Soloists.

Streaming online on our Facebook Group HERE

10:00 am Sung Matins
Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Mauricio J. Wilson, Rector
Music Director: Christopher Kula. With St. Paul's Soloists.

Streaming online on our Facebook Group HERE

1:00 pm Advent Cookies (and carols of the heart)
TOWN HALL
via Zoom

To get the Zoom link, send a note to rector@stpaulsoakland.org.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace!"
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Christmas Eve, Thursday December 24
5:00 pm Family Christmas Eve Celebration via Zoom
To get the Zoom link, send a note to the rector@stpaualsoakland.org.

10:30 pm Concert for Christmas Eve
Our annual Christmas concert, a festive prelude of carols and songs. With St. Paul's Soloists.
Music Director: Christopher Kula. Streaming online on our Facebook Group HERE


11:00 pm Candlelight Midnight Mass
Traditional Candlelight service, First Mass of Christmas. Charpentier, Messe de minuit pour Noël. With St. Paul's Soloists and chamber ensemble.
Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Mauricio J. Wilson, Rector.
Streaming online on our Facebook Group HERE


Christmas Day, Friday December 25
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
Traditional service, First Mass of Christmas. With St. Paul's Soloists.
Preacher: The Rev. Christian Harding, Assisting Priest. With St. Paul's Soloists.
Music Director and Organist: Christopher Kula.
Streaming online on our Facebook Group HERE


ADVENT is the first season of the church year, beginning with the fourth Sunday before Christmas and continuing through the day before Christmas.

Christmas has increasingly become a holiday cut off from its purpose of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. It is, therefore, important for Christians to recapture the season of Advent as a time for preparing for Christmas, 

Our word “Advent” derives from the Latin Adventus, which means “coming,” and originally referred just to the coming of the feast of Christmas. The season of Advent has been set aside as a time of preparation for Christmas since at least the last half of the 6th century, but over time, the season of Advent took on a double meaning. Today it refers both to the “first coming” of Jesus Christ in his birth at Christmas and to his “second coming” at the end of time.

It is important to remember that Advent is not just a season in which we recall an event of the past — Jesus’ birth — but also a time in which we look to the present and the future. When will Jesus come again? When will we see the kingdom of God on earth, as it is in heaven? Of course no one knows. And so the
more important questions are: What can we do as the Church, Christ’s body here on earth, to welcome God’s reign of justice and peace today? What can we do as individuals to reorder our lives in the light of God’s love? What would it mean to live as a people who believe in Jesus as the Savior of all the earth and
who expect him to come again at the fulfillment of time? Each Advent, we turn to these questions anew.

Join us during the Season of Advent, to reflect, to prepare, to pray, to sing,

SOURCE: Daily Prayer for All Seasons - The Episcopal Church’s abbreviated BCP  (free download) https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/document/daily-prayer-all-seasons

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