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Christmas Church Services, Midnight Masses in Royal Oak

Local houses of worship offer plenty of times and ways to celebrate.

Christians will celebrate the birth of Jesus on Dec. 25 and there's plenty of ways to do so thanks to candlelight services, midnight Masses and Christmas Day worship services around the community.

Check out what's happening at a church near you:

First Presbyterian Church of Royal Oak

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  • Christmas Eve:  4 p.m. family service with children and youth participating, 9 p.m. service with special music, 11 p.m. service with Holy Communion 

First Congregational Church of Royal Oak

  • Christmas Eve: 7 p.m. worship service

Royal Oak's First United Methodist

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  • Christmas Eve7 p.m. Children's Pageant, 10 p.m. candlelight service

Genesis the Church
  • Christmas Eve: 5 p.m. Candle Light service

Good Shepherd Lutheran 
  • Christmas Eve: 6 p.m. Family Service and  10:30 p.m. Candle Light service Service

Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic

  • Christmas Eve: 4 p.m. Children's Mass, 6:30 p.m. Mass and 11 p.m. Musical Prelude to Midnight Mass
  • Christmas Day: 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Masses, as well. No 6 p.m. Mass

St. John's Episcopal

  • Christmas Eve: 5 p.m. Family Holy Eucharist, 10:30 p.m. Festival Holy Eucharist

St. Mary Catholic

  • Christmas Eve: 4:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass with liturgical dancers and folk choir; 10 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass with adult choir and brass quartet (9:30 p.m.)
  • Christmas Day: 9 a.m. Christmas Day Mass with Handbells and Instrumentalists; 11 a.m. Christmas Day Mass with youth choir

St. Paul Lutheran

  • Christmas Eve: 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. Christmas Eve worship
  • Christmas Day: 10 a.m. Sunday worship

Did we miss your church's services? Add your worship times in the comments section below.


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