Advent Service Of Lessons & Carols, Sunday At Trinity

On Sunday, December 4, the choirs of Trinity Episcopal Church will present an Advent Service of Lessons and Carols. The service will begin at 2 pm in the church’s sanctuary, at 36 Main Street in Newtown.

The service can be enjoyed on its own or as one of the events of Family Counseling Center’s 20th Annual Newtown Holiday Festival.

All are welcome to join the celebration of the season and to attend a reception that will follow the service.

Advent Lessons and Carols, originally intended as a preparation for the Christmas celebration, will feature the anthems, hymns and readings all associated with the season of Advent. Under the direction of Fiona Smith Sutherland, Trinity’s new minister of music, the Adult Choir and Girls’ and Boys’ Choirs will sing music from the Medieval times to the present, including movements from Handel’s Messiah.

Any donations received on Sunday will be given to Family Counseling Center, of which Trinity Church was one of the founders.