{"id":12204,"date":"2026-07-27T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/?p=12204"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:43:25","slug":"festival-of-lessons-carols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/news\/festival-of-lessons-carols\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Lessons &amp; Carols"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunday, December 13, 3:00-4:00 p.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Advent program will include readings from Sacred Scripture; music from the St. Thomas choirs, strings, and brass; and congregational singing, all to help prepare us for the Lord&#8217;s coming at Christmas. The Festival of Lessons &amp; Carols is part of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/st-cecilia-society\/\">St. Cecilia Society<\/a><\/strong> sacred music series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div style=\"--wp--block-button--width: 100;\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/st-cecilia-society\/\">Support Sacred Music through the St. Cecilia Society<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Two other joyful events will take place at St. Thomas on Gaudete Sunday to help us prepare for the Lord&#8217;s coming: <a href=\"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/news\/christkindlmarkt-26\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12251\">Christkindlmarkt<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/news\/guadalupe-26\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12239\">Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div style=\"--wp--block-button--width: 100;\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/news\/christkindlmarkt-26\/\">Christkindlmarkt: An Ann Arbor Advent Festival<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div style=\"--wp--block-button--width: 100;\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/news\/guadalupe-26\/\">A Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 13, 3:00-4:00 p.m. This Advent program will include readings from Sacred Scripture; music from the St. Thomas choirs, strings, and brass; and congregational singing, all to help prepare\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":12205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12204"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12258,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions\/12258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sta2.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}