This year's celebrations on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were simply magnificent. The two Christmas Eve services - a Jazz Mass and the Solemn High Christ Mass - both filled the church to capacity with folk, and a new high in Christmas Eve attendance was achieved that evening. (For more on the Jazz Mass, click HERE for the article posted on the Sedona Jazz at the Church blog.)
Christmas Day's Mass was special, also, as it witnessed the return of our dear Shirley DuBois, who has been unable to attend Mass for the past three months, while recovering from a broken hip suffered a few weeks before her 98th birthday!
To say the least, then, the Christmas Day Mass was a powerfully moving experience for all who attended - especially for Shirley!
- looking ahead -
This year we have two "Christmas Season: Sundays following Christmas Day. Then - on January 6th - the Epiphany Season begins with the feast of the Epiphany, or the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles.
So, this Sunday will be the last opportunity to sing Christmas carols and hymns, and the Christ Candle and Poinsettias will also "disappear" after the morning's liturgies.
- thank you for your benevolences! -
A special thanksgiving to all who have been so giving with both presents and cards to me this Christmas season. I have always considered it a privilege and honour to serve as your Rector, and by God's grace, our future will continue to be blessed and consecrated for both our souls health and God's greater glory!
God has always blessed us, and continued sanctification is part of what it is to be a member of Saint Luke's Church!
See you in His Church.
