Christmas Tree Festival
St Michael's will be holding our second Christmas Tree Festival from Friday 1 – Sunday 3 December.
We’ve got businesses, community groups, charities, and schools joining in with what is a popular Christmas and community event. This is an opportunity for the organisations to use their creative flair and at the same time publicise their role in the community. It will be great to see lots of people come along and see how the trees are decorated.
The Festival is open from 10 am – 4 pm each day (from 12 noon on Sunday). Admission is free but donations are welcome. Refreshments will be available through the Festival along with a Grand Christmas Draw.
On Saturday the St Michael’s Christmas Fair will run from 10 am – 1 pm and at 7.30 pm there will be a concert by Saints and Sinners Band. The Festival concludes with a service of Carol Praise on Sunday at 4 pm which will give the opportunity to sing well-known Christmas carols and hear the story behind them.
Pictures from St Michael's Christmas Tree Festival 2021
Christmas Services
St Michael and All Angels
South Street, Lancing, BN15 8AJ
The Boundstone Chorus Christmas Celebration
Saturday 16 December, 7.30 pm
Admission free - retiring collection, followed by refreshments
The Chorus will celebrate Christmas through music and readings which includes the traditional "Coventry Carol", Gustav Holst's "In the bleak midwinter", and Ola Gjeilo's "The Holly and the Ivy" and carols for everyone to sing.
They will also be singing the new version of "The First Nowell" by Bob Chilcott commissioned by the Church of England.
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Christmas Eve
Candlelight Crib Service, 5.30 pm
No tickets required - all welcome
A candlelight service with readings telling the Christmas story and carols for everyone to sing.
Midnight Mass, 11.15 pm
No tickets required - all welcome
For many people Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve is a special time –
a time when we are filled with the wonder and joy of Christmas.
Join us and experience the true wonder of Christmas as we celebrate
the birth of Christ, who is God-with-us.
Includes the singing of Christmas Carols, a sermon and Holy Communion.
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Christmas Day
Mass with Carols 10.30 am
No tickets required - all welcome
A service to celebrate Christmas morning, and the appearing of Jesus as Emmanuel – ‘God with us’.
Includes the singing of Christmas Carols, a sermon and Holy Communion.
Coombes Church
Coombes Road, BN15 0RS
Nine Lessons and Carols
with the Sinfonia of Arun Wind Quintet
Saturday 23 December, 3 pm
Admission free - retiring collection
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Christmas Day
Traditional Holy Communion with Carols, 9 am
No tickets required - all welcome
St James the Less
Manor Road, Lancing, BN15 0EY
Carols by the Lychgate
(in church if wet)
Saturday 9 December, 3 - 4 pm
Nine Lessons and Carols
followed by mulled wine and mince pies
Saturday 16 December, 3 pm
No tickets required - all welcome
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Christmas Eve
Christingle, 4.30 pm
No tickets required - all welcome
Midnight Mass, 11.30 pm
No tickets required - all welcome
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Christmas Day
Sung Eucharist, 10.30 am
No tickets required - all welcome
St Mary the Virgin
Church Lane, Sompting, BN15 0AZ
Christmas Eve
Crib service, 3 pm
No tickets required - all welcome
A service with readings telling the Christmas story and carols for everyone to sing.
St Peter the Apostle
Bowness Avenue, Sompting, BN15 9TP
Christmas Eve
Early ‘Midnight' Mass, 8 pm
No tickets required - all welcome
This is an early 'Midnight' Mass
starting at 8 pm.
Join us and experience the true wonder of Christmas as we celebrate the birth of Christ, who is God-with-us.
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