Nine Lessons and Carols

4951 Macon Highway,Bishop GA 30621

23 December, 2021

Description

The traditional Christmas Eve service to prepare the faithful for the Christmas Vigil or Morning Mass. Nine prophecies are read with matching hymns about the coming of the The Christ. This includes the most famous of Christmas hymns. Processional: Once in Royal David’s City Invitatory: What Child is This In the Bleak MidwinterThe First NoelO lLittle Town of Bethlehem God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen Basque Carol (The Angel Gabriel)Good Christian Men, RejoiceGloria [In Excelsis Deo]We Three Kings O Come All Ye Faithful Parking: If the parking lot behind the church is full, additional parking is available across the street in the grass lot or behind the Town Hall in the parking lot (white building caddy corner to the church). Saint Aelred Catholic Church, located in Oconee County, Ga., is in The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (POCSP), a non-geographical diocese whose Cathedral, Our Lady of Walsingham, is located in Houston, Texas. The new church community was founded on the Feast of Saints Peter & Paul in 2019. The mission of Saint Aelred and the POCSP is to provide beautiful worship, study scripture, give to those in need, and promote Benedictine spirituality.