Vigil Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Advent || December 20, 2025
Presided By Rev. Wilson Paulose St. Christopher's Church Kent Island, MD »» 2025 Holy Mass Times «« SATURDAY: 5:00 PM; (no Mass in Spanish) SUNDAY: 8:00 AM; 10:30 AM TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY: 8:00 AM »» Confession Times «« SATURDAY: 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM Visit us at: https://www.stchristopherski.org/ To keep in touch with us via email and text, sign-up for FlockNote at: https://stchristopherschurch.flocknot... Follow us on social media via: / @stchristopherschurch / stchristopherski.org / stchristopherski »» Acknowledgements & Disclaimer «« St. Christopher’s Catholic Church acknowledges the authors and composers whose materials are employed in this worship streaming: O Come, O Come Emmanuel Text: LM with refrain; Latin, 9th cent.; verses 1, 3–6 para. in Psalteriolum Cantionum Catholicarum, Cologne, 1710; tr. by John M. Neale, 1818–1866; verses 2, 7 tr. fr. The Hymnal 1940, alt. Music: VENI, VENI, EMMANUEL; Chant, Mode I; Processionale, French, 15th cent.; adapt. by Thomas Helmore, 1811–1890. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Hail Mary: Gentle Woman Text: Based on Luke 1:28, 42; Carey Landry, b. 1944. Music: Carey Landry; keyboard acc. by Martha Lesinski. Text and music © 1975, 1978, Carey Landry and OCP. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming Text: 76 76 6 76; based on Isaiah 11:1; trad. German Carol, 15th cent.; tr. by Theodore Baker, 1851–1934, alt. Music: ES IST EIN’ ROS’ ENTSPRUNGEN; melody fr. Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesänge, Cologne, 1599; keyboard acc. by Michael Praetorius, 1571–1621, Musae Sioniae, 1609. All rights reserved. Used with permission. O Holy Mary Text: Owen Alstott, b. 1947; Spanish, Cesáreo Gabaráin, 1936–1991. Music: Owen Alstott. Text and music © 1982, 1989, OCP. All rights reserved. Used with permission. The King of Glory Text: 12 12 with refrain; Willard F. Jabusch, 1930–2018, © 1967, Willard F. Jabusch. All rights reserved. Administered by OCP. Music: KING OF GLORY; trad. Israeli folk song; organ acc. by Randall DeBruyn, b. 1947, © 1983, OCP. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Permission to reprint, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-738981. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
