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Your Guide: Christmas Services, Midnight Masses

Those who seek a religious service won't have to go far.

Christians will celebrate the birth of Jesus this weekend, and there are plenty of ways to do so thanks to the many candlelight services, midnight Masses and Christmas Day worship services throughout Berkley, Huntington Woods and nearby communities.

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

Berkley and Huntington Woods

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  • Saturday: 5 p.m. family service, 10 p.m. candlelight service
  • Sunday: 10 a.m. combined Christmas service

  • Saturday: 5 p.m. family service, 10 p.m. candlelight service
  • Sunday: 10:30 a.m. worship, 11:30 a.m. coffee hour

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  • Saturday: 5:30 p.m. Christmas Eve family service and The Very Important Christmas Pageant, 11 p.m. candlelight service with Holy Communion and Chancel Choir.
  • Sunday: 11 a.m. worship
  • Saturday: 5:30 p.m. family service, 10:30 p.m. candlelight service
  • Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Christmas Festival service

  • Saturday: 5 p.m. Mass, 11:30 p.m. music prelude to Solemn Mass of Christmas at Midnight
  • Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Mass

Clawson

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  • Saturday: 7 p.m. family candlelight service, 11 p.m. candlelight service
  • Sunday: 10 a.m. worship

  • Saturday: 4 p.m. children's Mass, 6:30 p.m. Mass and midnight Mass
  • Sunday: 10 a.m. Mass and noon Mass
  • Saturday: 6 p.m. family service, 8 p.m. candlelight celebration with Holy Communion
  • Sunday: 10 a.m. worship and Holy Communion

Ferndale

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  • Saturday: 6 p.m. candlelight communion service
  • Sunday: 10:50 a.m. service


  • Saturday: 7 p.m. family service, 11 p.m. candlelight service and communion
  • Sunday: 10:30 a.m. worship and children's bible time

  • Saturday: 4:30 Christmas Eve Mass with Nativity drama and choir and Fr. Prus presiding; Midnight Mass with trumpeter and Fr. Steve Wertanen presiding
  • Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Christmas Day Mass with choir and Fr. Ed Prus presiding
  • Saturday: Festive Eucharist at 7:30 p.m.
  • Sunday: Quiet celebration at 10:30 a.m.

Royal Oak

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  • Saturday: 4 p.m. family service with children participating, 9 p.m. candlelight service with special music, 11 p.m. candlelight service with Holy Communion and special music
  • Sunday: 10:30 a.m. service

  • Saturday: 7 p.m. Children's Pageant, 10 p.m. candlelight service
  • Sunday: 11 a.m. worship

  • Saturday: 4 p.m. Children's Mass, 6:30 p.m. Mass and 11 p.m. Musical Prelude to Midnight Mass
  • Sunday: 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Masses, as well as a 4 p.m. Spanish Mass

  • Saturday: 5 p.m. Family Holy Eucharist, 10:30 p.m. Festival Holy Eucharist
  • Sunday: 10 a.m. Holy Communion (no music)

  • Saturday: 4:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass with Fr. Steve Wertanen presiding, liturgical dancers and folk choir; 10 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass with Fr. Steve Wertanen presiding, adult choir and brass quartet (9:30 p.m.)
  • Sunday: 9 a.m. Christmas Day Mass, Fr. Timothy Babcock presiding Handbells and Instrumentalists; 11 a.m. Christmas Day Mass, Fr. Rich Yost presiding youth choir

  • Saturday: 7 p.m. Christmas Eve worship
  • Sunday: 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship
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