The Choir of St. Paul’s, Marinette will present its annual service of Advent Lessons and Carols at 4 p.m. on Sunday, December 10, 2017. This will mark the 28th year the seasonal service has been offered to the parish and area communities. The program will include music familiar to many along with more contemporary carol arrangements by John Gardner and Lennox Berkeley. Also included is an O Antiphon setting by Peter Hallock and Richard Lloyd’s setting of Advent Prose, “Drop down, ye heavens”.

The service is intended as a preparation for the celebration of Christmas and begins in darkness with the choir singing from the narthex of the church. The choir and sanctuary party move in procession from west to east, from ‘darkness to light’. Readings from Holy Scripture provide the core and structure of the service, directing our attention to the coming of the Messiah incarnate and to His second coming at the end of the age.

James Martell is organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s and Mary Nemetz will direct the choir.

St. Paul, Marinette will host the Celebration of New Ministry with its new Rector, the Rev. Glenn Kanestrom on Saturday, November 4th at 11:00 a.m. All are welcome and invited to attend. The service marks the transition of ministry for the congregation and the priest as they live into a new relationship in serving the Gospel.