Christmas
A GUIDE TO AREA CHURCH SERVICES
2016
Celebrate the Season
Fair Oaks Ave. & Thomas St. • Oak Park • 708-386-4920 • fairoakspres.org
Christmas Eve Worship Services Saturday, December 24 4:30pm Family Service Our family-oriented candle lighting service offers Christmas carols, scripture readings, music by our Mid-High Handbell choir, Youth soloist, Christmas pageant participants, candle lighting, and a Christmas message.
11:00pm Candlelight Service
In anticipation of the birth of Christ, the Messiah, this gathering is adopted from the traditional Christmas Eve service known as the Festival of Lessons and Carols where the joyous Christmas story unfolds through Scripture reading, candle lighting, and music offered by the Chancel Choir, the Senior High Handbell Choir, and congregational hymn singing.
Celebrate the Season
Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation Christmas Eve Holiday Services Christmas Eve Holiday Pageant/Worship for All Ages :: 3 p.m. Magnificat by Dietrich Buxtehude :: 7:30 p.m. Candlelight Services :: 8 and 11 p.m. Christmas Day 11 a.m. service
Christmas Day Worship Service Sunday 10:00 am - December 25 Come to a service for all ages, celebrating the birth of Jesus on Christmas morn! We’ll have carols, coffee & cocoa, and treats. Pajamas welcome! Christmas Eve Giving….
Christmas Eve loose plate offerings at both worship services will go to support local missions in Oak Park. Worshipers are also invited to bring a pair of white socks to donate to Housing FORWARD.
Join us at our temporary home: United Lutheran Church 409 Greenfield, Oak Park
Come home for the holidays and connect. Sunday Service is at 11:00 am. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service • Saturday, December 24th at 7:00pm Christmas Morning Service at 11:00am
First Congregational Church of Maywood Please like us on Facebook
400 North 5th Avenue • Maywood, IL 60153 (708) 344-6150 www.firstchurchofmaywood.org
Keep Christmas with us.
O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord!
Advent & Christmas Schedule 2016
Saint Bernardine Parish
Advent Penance Service Thursday, December 15 • 7:00 pm Christmas Eve Saturday, December 24 • Family Mass at 5:00 pm Caroling at 10:00 pm • High Mass at 10:30 pm Christmas Day Sunday, December 25 • Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 am New Year’s Eve Saturday, December 31 • Mass at 5:00 pm New Year’s Day Sunday, January 1 • Masses at 8:00 am & 10:30 am
7246 W. Harrison St. • Forest Park, IL 708/366-0839 www.stbern.com
Christmas Eve, Dec. 24
Lessons and Carols, 4:15 and 6 pm Led by the children of Grace Holy Communion, 8 pm Candlelight Holy Communion,10:45 pm Music begins at 10:30 pm
Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 10 am 7300 Division St.▪︎ River Forest ▪︎ 708-‐366-‐6900 ▪︎ GraceRiverForest.org
Christmas Eve Service 6:30 pm Music
7 pm Worship Service
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church Christmas Worship
To you a child is born who is Christ the King
First United Methodist Church of Oak Park
Christmas Eve
324 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park (708) 383-4983 www.firstUMCoakpark.org
Family Candlelight Service - 5:00 p.m. Candlelight Communion Service - 10:30 p.m. Pre-Service Music - 10:00 p.m.
Christmas Day
Join us for Christmas worship at United Lutheran Church 409 Greenfield Street (at Ridgeland) Oak Park
Christmas Eve, December 24 5:00 p.m. Holy Communion with candle lighting and children’s story
Christmas Day, December 25 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion www.unitedlutheranchurch.org
Communion Service - 10:00 a.m.
New Year’s Eve Service 7:00 p.m. (Hymn Sing)
Sunday, January 1, 2017 4:00 pm Family Service 8:00 pm Service of Lessons & Carols 11:00 pm Service of Lessons & Carols
First Presbyterian Church of River Forest ~ 7551 Quick Avenue Pastor Paul Detterman
708-366-5822 Wheelchair Accessible
www.firstpresrf.org
One Service 9:30 a.m.
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church 305 Circle Avenue, Forest Park (708) 366-3226 Rev. Leonard R. Payton, Pastor Rev. Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary
all are welcome
Christmas Eve
Family Service, 5p Child-friendly service
Traditional Candlelight, 11p (Pre-service music begins 10:30p)
Christmas Day
Service of Carols, 10:30a
2016
Holiday Schedule
St. Catherine—St. Lucy Parish
Vivaldi’s Gloria Concert
Vigil of Christmas: (Christmas Eve) Saturday, December 24, 2016 5:00 PM - Family Christmas
with professional soloists and chamber orchestra
Mass (Prelude at 4:30 PM) 9:00 PM - (Caroling at 8:30 PM)
January 8, 3 p.m.
5th Annual Gospel Concert
January 22, 3 p.m
Intergenerational celebration with choirs from Chg/Milw
Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church, ELCA 611 Randolph at East Ave. Oak Park • 708-848-4741 goodshepherdlc.org
Christmas Day Sunday, December 25, 2016 10:00 AM Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Saturday, December 31, 2016 5:00 PM New Year’s Day Sunday, January 1, 2017 10:00 AM 38 N. Austin Blvd., Oak Park 708-386-8077 stcatherinestlucy.org/
SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD Saturday, December 24, CHRISTMAS EVE 4:30 pm Vigil Family Mass Choral music and carols begin at 4:00 pm 10:30 pm Vigil Lessons and Carols begin at 9:50 pm
CHRISTMAS 2016
Sunday, December 25, CHRISTMAS DAY 9:00 am 11:00 am Choral music and carols begin at 10:50 am
St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church 1530 Jackson Avenue River Forest, IL
Please note there is no evening liturgy on Christmas Day.
FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY Friday, December 30 Though not a holy day, join us in celebrating this important feast of the Christmas Season at the 8:30 am liturgy.
On North Avenue at Lathrop
SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD
Christmas Eve Masses
Saturday, December 31 5:30 p.m. Vigil Sunday, January 1 9:00 am 11:00 am
4:00 PM and 10:30 PM
Please note that there is no 5:30 pm Sunday liturgy this weekend.
Christmas Day Masses
SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD
7:30 AM, 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM
Sunday, January 8
Please note that there is no 5:30 pm Sunday liturgy this weekend
FEAST OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD Monday, January 9 Though not a holy day, join us in celebrating this final feast of the Christmas Season at the 8:30 am liturgy.
S T . E DMUND P ARISH Oak Park, IL
Ample Parking Dominican Friars
ST. GILES
Join us for Christmas!
CHRISTMAS SEASON!
Christmas Eve – 7:30 p.m. – The traditional Christmas Story
WE WELCOME YOU THIS
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Christmas morning – 10:30 a.m. – “The Best Gift for Last”
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St. Giles Church, 1045 N. Columbian Avenue, Oak Park, IL On the corner of Columbian and Greenfield
(Two blocks south of North Avenue - Three blocks east of Oak Park Avenue)
Ph: 708-383-3430 • Web: stgilesparish.org
405 S. Euclid Ave., Oak Park 708-848-7360 www.euclidavenueumc.org Sanctuary/first floor accessible