The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.
Isaiah 9:2
Isaiah 9:2
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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
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Advent III, Sunday December 13, Gaudete Sunday
"‘I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; |
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
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