Christmas 2023 Photopost (Part 2)

We continue with photos of your Christmas liturgies; these are posted mostly in the order received, and it just worked out that a lot of particularly nice images show up in this set. In the meantime, get your cameras ready for celebrations of Epiphany this weekend - we will post a reminder tomorrow, along with the last images from Christmas. As always, thanks to all those who contributed; Christus natus est nobis: venite; adoremus!  

Church of St Mary – Providence, Rhode Island (FSSP)

The Magi wait their turn at the back of the church.

Holy Innocents – New York City

Courtesy of Mr Arrys Ortañez, who also provided this image of the church taken during Christmastide in the 1940s.

St Mary’s Oratory – Wausau, Wisconsin (ICRSP)

Prime on the morning of Dec. 24

Midnight Mass

The lights are turned on and the triptych over the high altar is opened once the Gloria in excelsis has been intoned.

St John – Calgary, Alberta (Ordinariate)

Midnight Mass of Christmas

Blessing of wine on the feast of St John the Evangelist

Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament – Raritan, New Jersey

The oldest functioning place of worship in the diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, built in 1856. Photo taken after the Midnight Mass by Frank Minishak.

Mater Misericordiae – Phoenix, Arizona (FSSP)