Archive for December, 2014

Calling all Calvary Youth!  Our annual Christmas Pageant is approaching, and we have a rehearsal scheduled for this Saturday, December 20th.  The rehearsal will begin at 10:00 a.m.

We hope you will join us in participating in this year’s pageant.  And please invite your family and friends to come watch the pageant on Christmas Eve!

This coming Sunday is a big Sunday at Calvary.  After our 10:30 worship, we will decorate the church for our Christmas services.  We will have the traditional hanging of the greens in the nave of the church, and we will place decorations elsewhere as well.  The poinsettias are always so beautiful.  There will be fun craft activities for children (decorating gingerbread houses!!), and adults who choose can go caroling.  We will finish up with a chili lunch in the parish hall, prepared by the rector.  Come out and help us prepare for Christmas.

Please join us as we celebrate the Savior’s birth.  Christmas services this year will be as follows:

Christmas Eve

4p.m. Children’s Pageant and Birthday Party for Jesus

7p.m., Holy Eucharist Rite 2

10:30p.m., Special Christmas Music

11:00p.m., Holy Eucharist Rite 2

Christmas Morning

10a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite 2

Welcome to Advent, a season of quiet expectation as we ponder what it means for God to send His Son into our world.

Collect for the First Sunday in Advent

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.