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The 90-minute service features Christmas carols, music from the icon Abbey Choir, a sermon and Holy Communion. Held from 11 p.m to 12:30 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, (6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. ET), you can ...
King's College Chapel, Cambridge (left), from where the popular Nine Lessons and Carols service is broadcast annually on Christmas Eve. The first Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, was held on Christmas Eve in 1918, directed by Arthur Henry Mann who was the organist from 1876 to 1929. [12].
A watchnight service at a Lutheran Christian church on New Year's Eve (2014) A watchnight service (also called Watchnight Mass) is a late-night Christian church service.In many different Christian traditions, such as those of Moravians, Methodists, Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Adventists and Reformed Christians, watchnight services are held late on New Year's Eve, which is the ...
Observed by: Christians: Type: Christian, cultural: Significance: Preparation for the Second Coming and commemoration of the birth of Jesus: Observances: Church services, completing an Advent calendar and Advent wreath, [1] praying through a daily devotional, [1] erecting a Chrismon tree, [1] hanging of the greens, [1] lighting a Christingle, [2] gift giving, family and other social gatherings
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Midnight Mass at Church of St. Wenceslaus in Mikulov, Czech Republic Midnight Mass at St. Sebastian Roman Catholic Church, New York City. In many Western Christian traditions, Midnight Mass is the first liturgy of Christmastide that is celebrated on the night of Christmas Eve, traditionally beginning at midnight when Christmas Eve gives way to Christmas Day.
Plygain is a traditional Welsh Christmas service which takes place in a church between three and six o'clock in the morning, traditionally on Christmas morning. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The word 'plygain' possibly comes from the Latin word pullicantio, meaning 'when the cock crows at dawn'; [ 3 ] some have suggested that it could also be derived from plygu ...
The Twelve Days of Christmas terminate with Epiphany Eve or Twelfth Night (the evening of 5 January). [7] Customs of the Christmas season include carol singing, gift giving, attending Nativity plays, church services, [8] and eating special food, such as Christmas cake. [9]