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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1951
Page
6
Long Beach churches launch a Christmas observance with wide adoration services. First Christian Church hosts White Gifts for Lakewood Church land purchase and California Christian Home gifts. Bellflower and other churches feature cantatas, programs, and Christmas sermons led by pastors and choirs amid parish-wide events.
Chanuko, the Jewish festival of lights, begins tomorrow evening. It recalls the 165 BCE rededication of the Jerusalem Temple by the Maccabees, eight days ofHanuka lamps, gift exchanges, menorah lighting, dreidels, and charitable offerings through December 31.
The Long Beach area observes Christmas across denominations with special services tomorrow and Monday night. Catholic Masses are planned for Christmas morning with communion. Chanuka is noted as The Feast of Lights for Jewish faith. Call Press Telegram at 6-9066 for church locations and hours.
The essay contrasts secular and religious views of Christmas. It urges readers to turn from commercialism toward home and church worship, emphasizing carols, hymns, and acts of kindness. It promotes church involvement as essential to democracy and personal character, urging families to attend services tomorrow and every Sunday.
A Christmas message praises the Nativity as marking a new civilization with gifts and blessings while warning of a threat to God and family. It calls for earnest prayer at Bethlehem’s crib for divine guidance to defeat this enemy and bring world peace through the Saviour’s love.
Long Beach churches plan Advent and Nativity observances with multiple Christmas Eve services. St Luke's Episcopal and others host midnight communities, choirs, and sermons led by Rev F C Benson Belliss, Dr Oscar C Mees, and Reuben Field Pieters amid carols, cantatas, and instrumental meditations.
GEO F McLean notes a back to church movement in Long Beach spurred by United Crusades by Baptists and Methodists and the Every Man Plan of the Presbyterian Church USA. He cites Merv Rosell meetings and widespread religious editorials plus a naval base preaching mission as signs of rising church activity and new congregations forming with 200 plus members. The Long Beach Ministerial Union urges citizens to Make a Church Your Church.
Christmas Day services are listed at St Anthony's with a 5 4. m solemn mass and multiple low masses with various choirs. Confessions are today and Sunday evenings, with hours extended through Monday. St Barnabas also plans masses at 8 o'clock for a solemn high mass with combined choirs and confession periods over the weekend and Monday.
A wave of Christmas music fills Sundays in area churches with Bach s Christmas Oratorio at First Methodist, Handel s Messiah at Lakewood Village Community Church, Emmanuel Presbyterian carols, Grace Methodist Sing Along, First Christian Christ mas Story drama at 7 30, and many other church choirs and soloists performing carols anthems and candlelight services across the community.
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