Community Calendar for week of Dec. 23
Local restaurant and grocery offering holiday specials
Abe Martin Lodge and Brown County IGA have partnered to offer meal pickups on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Christmas Eve carry out is available at the Little Gem Restaurant from 11 a.m. to 6 pm. on Thursday, Dec. 24. Customers can also preorder and pay for delivery at noon or 5 p.m. at the IGA, 30 Hawthorne Drive. The meal is $22 per person and includes Abe’s fried chicken, deviled eggs, honey brown sugar glazed ham, loaded mashed potatoes, broccoli cauliflower casserole, macaroni and cheese, rolls, sweet potato pie and a fire roasted peach crisp.
Father Rick Malloy, SJ
What’s the best Christmas prayer you have ever experienced?
A mystical midnight Mass? Quiet adoration before the manger scene, lit by the glow of the tree in your living room? Watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the 1,000th time? Taking your small children to see Santa and enjoying their delight on Christmas morning?
Donating to the needy rather than splurge on unneeded gifts? Hearing “Do You Hear What I Hear”? the wonderful call for peace written in the wake of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis? Just holding a loved one?
Mine was an hour one Christmas day a few years ago.
Diocese: Check with parish before heading out to Christmas Mass
Delaware News Desk
Those who plan to attend Christmas Eve or Christmas Day Masses in one of the 74 Catholic parish or mission churches in Delaware or Maryland’s Eastern Shore are urged to check their parish’s website or bulletin before heading out, as some are requiring advanced reservations in order to comply with state mandated attendance limitations due to the recent uptick in area COVID-19 cases.
“We want to avoid having to turn people away at the door,” said the Most Reverend W. Francis Malooly, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. “Parishes are following government guidelines to make sure everyone stays safe and healthy during Christmas and beyond. Limiting attendance, social distancing, wearing masks and other requirements will be in place to assure that we will all be around when our Christmas Masses are once again standing room only.”
Some area churches are celebrating Christmas virtually, offering livestreamed services, and others are gathering in person while following COVID-19 health and safety practices.
For the parish of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Angola, there will be four days of celebrating the Mass of Christmas Day.
âFour days of Christmas? Not 12?â a parish blog rhetorically asks on its website.
The blog then goes on to provide a detailed description of Christmas worship options at St. Anthonyâs and St. Paulâs Chapel at Clear Lake that are being offered in response to COVID-19.
They are among many churches in the region that are coming up with creative options to allow for Christmas worship during the pandemic.
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