‘A Savior has been born for you’
The St. Louis Archdiocese will mark the birth of Jesus Christ, the real reason for the Christmas season, at its two basilicas with Masses on Christmas Eve, midnight and Christmas Day.
Archbishop Raymond Burke will celebrate Midnight Mass on Christmas at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in the Central West End.
A choir concert beginning at 11 p.m. will precede the Mass at the cathedral basilica, on the corner of Lindell Boulevard and Newstead Avenue.
A 5 p.m. vigil Mass Christmas Eve, Sunday, Dec. 24, also will be celebrated there.
Monday, Dec. 25, Christmas Day Masses at the cathedral basilica will be at 8 and 10 a.m. and noon. There will be no evening Mass Christmas Day. The archbishop will celebrate the 10 a.m. Mass.
A Christmas Eve vigil Mass will be celebrated at 5 p.m. at the Basilica of St. Louis King of France (Old Cathedral), 209 Walnut St. on the riverfront Downtown. Midnight Mass will follow carols at 11:30 p.m. Christmas Day Masses at the Old Cathedral will be at 8 and 10:30 a.m. and noon. There will be no evening Mass.
St. Raymond Cathedral, a Catholic church of the Eastern rite at 931 Lebanon Drive in the LaSalle Park neighborhood of St. Louis, will celebrate Christmas Liturgy at 5 and 11 p.m. Christmas Eve and 10 a.m. Christmas Day.
Since New Year’s Day, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, is on a Monday this year, it is not a holy day of obligation in the Roman rite. Masses at the cathedral basilica on Monday, Jan. 1, will be at 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m.
The only Mass for the Jan. 1 solemnity at the Old Cathedral is at 8 a.m.
The solemnity is a holy day of obligation in the Eastern rite. The liturgy at St. Raymond is at 10 a.m. Jan. 1.
(Source: St Louis Review)
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