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Christmas at Trinity
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Christmas at Trinity Lime Rock is an experience to be treasured. It is a
time when our whole community comes together and celebrates -- each in our own
way -- the Birth of our Lord. |
In sequence, here's how the preparations for Christmas play out in a typical
year:
- In Advent, our young people begin preparations for their
traditional
Christmas
Pageant. More about that later!
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- In Advent, our liturgy switches from the Rite II form of worship we use
most of the year to Rite I, in keeping with the solemnity of this period of
waiting. The altar flowers are
replaced by greens for this season as well (the flowers return on
Christmas).
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- Likewise, in early Advent (and even before that!), our Choir begins preparations for the
special
music that has been a highlight of the Christmas season at Trinity for
many years.
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- Around the same time, our Outreach team begins to plan for ways that we can
make Christmas happier for people in our own community than they might otherwise
be able to have. Because of hard economic times, we have concentrated this
year on feeding the hungry via our affiliation with
OWLs Kitchen.
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- The fourth Sunday of Advent, our young people present their
Christmas
Pageant. While there's an entire section of this website devoted to
Christmas Pageants at Trinity -- and it's a very popular section -- we
should say a bit more about it here.
Trinity's Christmas Pageant began back in the dark days of World War II, in
1942, when the priest who was then in charge of Trinity decided that a Christmas Pageant
might be a tonic for this little parish church, then struggling during very difficult
times. He was correct, and the young people's Christmas Pageant has been a
tradition ever since.
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- Following the Christmas Pageant, our choir goes out caroling. In 2007
and 2008 we sang for the residents of Wangum Village in North Canaan, and for the
residents of the Alzheimer's Unit of Geer.
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- On Christmas Eve, we go into high gear. We have
special music at all services.
In 2009, you are invited to join us on December 24 for a special service for young people
at 3 PM, and Festival Eucharist, preceded by a
choral concert, at 7
PM (Rite II), and on Christmas Day, Holy Eucharist with vocal soloists at 10 AM.
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- The Sunday following Christmas Day, our 8 AM Holy Eucharist switches
back from Rite I to Rite II liturgy, and at our 10:30 AM service, in place
of our usual Holy Eucharist, that day we will have a service of Lessons and Carols.
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Here is a page about our
Christmas Pageant
2009.
Here are some
links to Christmas-related pages on this website:
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to see our main Christmas Pageant page