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| Cloister Garden of the Carmel of the Holy Family |
I am pleased to announce that the friars of the
Western Dominican Province House of Studies will celebrate a
Dominican Rite Solemn Mass at 11:30 a.m. on Christmas Day. The Mass will be at the
Carmel of the Holy Family,
68 Rincon Road, Kensington (North Berkeley), California. The celebrant will be Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P., the deacon will be Fr. Robert Verrill, O.P., and the subdeacon will be Bro. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P. The Mass will be sung by the Carmelite Sisters. Student brothers of the House of Studies will serve the Mass.Along with the other distinctive aspects of the Dominican Rite, this Mass of Christmas has two others. There will be three readings as we have a Prophecy from Isaiah along with the Epistle and Gospel. And our rite includes the famous medieval Sequence, the Laetabundus.
The Carmel has ample parking, but the chapel is small, so to insure yourself seating, come early.![]()
