Houston Chamber Choir is getting into the holiday spirit with it’s holiday concert, Christmas at the Villa – On This Day Earth Shall Ring. Shows will take place in the Villa de Matel chapel twice on Saturday and Sunday, and they will include guest performers the Treble Choir of Houston and guitarist Marc Garvin.
A special worship service in the University Chapel, led by the dean and the associate dean of religious life and the chapel, that features festive music of the season! With music by Kenneth Grayson, Jr. H’71, H’02, and Eric Plutz, University Organist. All persons, including members of the broader community, are welcome to attend this event if they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 if over age 12. Face coverings must be worn at all times by everyone over age 2. Registration is required for contact tracing purposes.
Register in advance through this link
For those unable to attend in person, this service will be live streamed on the ORL YouTube page available through this link.
The bulletin for this service is below.
Princeton University Chapel, Second Sunday after Christmas, January 2, 2022
A Service of Holy Communion
You are invited to rise, in body or spirit, for those parts of the service marked with an asterisk ( )
Invitatory: Carillon on a Ukranian Carol by Gerald Near (b.
December 14, 2020
It’s time for Christmas music! Technically, of course, if you’re traditional about these things, it’s time for Advent music. Advent is the beautiful four-week season that
precedes Christmas, a time of waiting in darkness for the light of Christ to dawn. During this tumultuous year of 2020, the season of Advent, and all that comes with it, has much to say to worshippers (read an essay I wrote on Advent and the hymns and carols particular to that season here).
Today we must admit that Advent and Christmas are often somewhat jumbled in our minds. In this year of unique trials and tribulations especially, many of us may feel, alongside Mame, that we “need a little Christmas, right this very minute.”