Christmas at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley!

All are welcome to join the parishioners of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Mill Valley for Christmas Mass. The schedule is as follows:

Christmas Eve, 5:30pm: Vigil Mass with children participating in the Gospel and Christmas carols throughout the reading. (Note: The Blessing of the Tree will take place at 5:15pm.)

Christmas Eve, Midnight Mass: Midnight Mass will be preceded by a choir concert of Christmas music starting at 11:30 pm. Mass will be at midnight, of course!

Christmas Day, 10:30 am. (Please note that there will be no Mass at 7:15am that morning!)

All three Masses will be live-streamed, and can be accessed at: https://www.facebook.com/mountcarmelmv

Please gift us with your presence in the church, if you can. (If live-streaming is your only option, we recommend you log on right at the start time so as not to have to refresh your page multiple times.).

If you wish to help us decorate the sanctuary by donating a poinsettia in memory of a loved one, please bring them to the church by Friday, December 22nd, and include a small card with the name on it.

What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly but does not take place within myself?

And what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace?

What good it it to me for the Creator to give birth to the Son if I do not also give birth to Him in my time, in my culture?

This, then, is the fullness of time: when the Son of God is begotten in us.

(Based on Meister Eckhart.)

May he be born in us!