{"id":21488,"date":"2015-12-21T11:32:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=21488"},"modified":"2015-12-21T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T19:32:04","slug":"christmas-service-schedule-for-church-of-the-ascension-all-are-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=21488","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Service Schedule for Church of the Ascension &#8211; All Are Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?attachment_id=4662\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4662\" title=\"ascension\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ascension2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ascension2.jpg 172w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ascension2-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a>Press Release posted 12\/20\/15<\/em> &#8211; Many special events take place at Ascension during Christmastide. You are invited to join in celebrating this glorious season through story, pageant, song, prayer, scripture, and candlelight. \u00a0\u00a0This year\u2019s schedule of special services for Christmas includes:<\/p>\n<p>December 24<sup>th <\/sup>Christmas Eve &#8211; Family Service and Pageant at 5:00 p.m. All children attending this service are encouraged to participate in the telling of the story. The service will also be filled with music provided by the children and a musical quartet.<\/p>\n<p>December 24<sup>th<\/sup> Christmas Eve \u2013 Carols and Hymns at 10:30 p.m. and Mass at 11:00 p.m. \u00a0Ascension\u2019s late Christmas Eve service features the traditional procession, incense, candles, prayer, sermon, and the great music of the season as the congregation joyously celebrates the birth of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>December 25<sup>th<\/sup> Christmas Day &#8211; \u00a011:00 a.m. the Celebration of the Feast of the Nativity.<\/p>\n<p>Church of the Ascension is located at 25 E. Laurel Avenuecorner of Laurel and Baldwin Avenues in Sierra Madre. For more information, please call (626) 355-1133 or visit: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascension-sierramadre.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.ascension-<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sierramadre.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release posted 12\/20\/15 &#8211; Many special events take place at Ascension during Christmastide. You are invited to join in celebrating this glorious season through story, pageant, song, prayer, scripture, and candlelight. \u00a0\u00a0This year\u2019s schedule&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}