Breath of Christmas - Baltimore Flute Choir
2025-12-07 14:00 (America/New_York) | St. Ursula Church, 8801 Harford Road, Parkville, MD, 21234, United States
Breath of Christmas featuring the Baltimore Flute Choir
Sunday, December 7th
2 p.m.
St. Ursula Church
8801 Harford Road
Parkville, MD 21234
Come relax and prepare yourself for Christmas!

IHM Concert Series: The Towson University Choirs
2025-12-07 16:00 | Immaculate Heart of Mary, 8501 Loch Raven Boulevard, Towson, 21286, United States
IHM Concert Series: The Towson University Choirs
Diana Saez and Stephen Holmes, Directors, will present a varied program celebrating the Advent season, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and the transition from autumn to winter. Music will include Renaissance motets, Advent plainsong, settings of Marian texts, and carols and songs from around the world.

Christmas at St. Louis
2025-12-07 16:00 | St. Louis, 12500 Clarksville Pike, Clarksville, Maryland, 21029
Christmas at St. Louis
We just couldn’t wait to share the holiday magic with you—so this year, our beloved Christmas concert arrives early! Mark your calendars for Sunday, December 7 and gather your family and friends for an afternoon of cherished carols, festive Yuletide favorites, and contemporary holiday tunes. This program of seasonal selections will be brought to life by our own orchestra and choirs, alongside outstanding guest artists. Don’t miss this early gift of music, fellowship, and joy—see you there!
Free admission; no ticket required. But bring a shelf stable food donation to support Howard County Community College Fueling Dragons Food Pantry.
For more information, visit https://www.stlconcertseries.org/2025-december-7

Advent Mission
2025-12-08 19:00 - 2025-12-10 20:00 | St. Bartholomew, 2930 Hanover Pike, Manchester, MD, United States
Advent Mission with Dr. John-Mark Miravalle
December 8-10
Monday, December 8, 7 p.m.
Mass for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception followed by a talk on Mary with Dr. John-Mark Miravalle!
Tuesday, December 9, 7 p.m.
A special Advent talk with Dr. John-Mark Miravalle!
Wednesday, December 10, 7 p.m.
PENANCE SERVICE ONLY
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and confessions with Fr. Collin Poston and several visiting priests!

Advent Day of Prayer
2025-12-10 09:30 - 16:00 | Bon Secours Retreat & Conference Center, 1525 Marriottsville Rd,, Marriottsville, MD, 21104, United States
Advent is about waiting and preparing for the coming of Jesus, commemorating his birth/first coming and also anticipating the second coming of Christ. But our Christian faith tells us that God is with us, already and still. This holy season invites us to encounter God in the present, in the day-to-day of our lives. Set aside some personal time and join us for a quiet day of prayer this Advent, a season of both hopeful waiting and encountering God who is ever present.
The day will begin with reflective input by Sr. Bernie Claps, CBS, followed by time for private prayer and reflection, lunch in silence, the option of walking the labyrinth or beautiful grounds, journaling, or just relaxing with God. The atmosphere for the day will be reverent silence, which allows us to encounter God and be attuned to God’s promptings. There will be the opportunity to attend liturgy if you wish. The day will close with us coming together to name the blessings of the day and for a closing prayer. Lunch is included. This will be a day of silence.

Advent Reconciliation Service
2025-12-10 19:00 | St. Vincent de Paul Church, 120 North Front Street, Baltimore, MD, 21202, United States
Advent Reconciliation Service
Wednesday, December 10, 7 p.m.
St. Vincent de Paul Church, 120 N Front St., Baltimore
Enter into the Advent season with the freshness of reconciliation with God by attending our Advent Reconciliation Service. St. Ignatius’ priests will be participating. Please join us for a time of prayer, reflection, and mercy at this solemn time of year. A brief service will be followed by confessions.

Ladies' Christmas Tea
2025-12-12 13:00 - 14:30 | St. Ursula Church, 8801 Harford Road, Parkville, MD, 21234, United States
You are invited to St. Ursula Church’s Ladies Christmas Tea on December 12 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Spiritual Center. Please RSVP by December 8 at the Parish Office 410-665-2111 or email laura.weatherington@archbalt.org

Magnificat Concert
2025-12-12 19:00 - 20:00 | St. John Neumann, 620 Bestgate Rd., Annapolis, MD, 21401, United States
Magnificat
Come listen to a performance of the Magnificat presented by St. Mary’s Music Ministry’s full choir and chamber orchestra!
7:00–8:00pm, Friday, December 12
St. John Neumann Church
620 N Bestgate Rd, Annapolis, MD 21401
Featuring selections from Magnificat settings by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Jozef Zebrowski, Felix Mendelssohn, Clive Osgood, and Kim André Arnesen. Invite family and friends for an evening of beautiful sacred music, with a reception to follow to meet the musicians! A wonderful way to enter the Advent season and prepare for the coming of Christ.

Handel's Messiah at the Baltimore Basilica
2025-12-12 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-12-13 15:00 - 18:00 | Baltimore Basilica, 409 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD, 21201
Join us at the breathtaking Baltimore Basilica — America’s First Cathedral — for two unforgettable performances of Handel’s Messiah this December 12th and 13th! Maestro Edward Polochick and the Baltimore Basilica Festival Orchestra and Choir return with even more splendor: soaring choruses, virtuosic solos, and the iconic “Hallelujah” brought to life in the Basilica’s stunning acoustics. Join us for this complete performance of Handel’s Messiah and experience a radiant celebration of joy, hope, and wonder. Whether it’s your holiday tradition or your first time hearing this masterpiece, let the Messiah lift your spirit and start your season with glory and wonder.
Buy tickets here!

Advent Morning Retreat
2025-12-13 08:30 - 12:30 | Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat House, 15523 YORK ROAD, SPARKS, MD, 21152, United States
Advent Morning Retreat
This morning retreat is for ministers and any adult seeking to pause and be renewed by the Holy Spirit. Join us for our morning of prayer and reflection to prepare for the Birth of our Lord Jesus. All are welcome.
Cost: Free-will donations.
Register here!
Saturday: December 13, 2025 8.30am – 12.30pm
O’Dwyer Retreat Center
15523 York Rd.
Sparks, MD 21152
PHONE:
410-472-2400

EMAIL:
ada.collazos@archbalt.org

Longwood Gardens Christmas Trip
2025-12-13 09:00 - 16:30 | Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square, PA, 19348, United States
Longwood Gardens Christmas Trip
Sponsored by the St. Ignatius Arts and Culture Ministry
Saturday, December 13
Depart: 9 a.m.
Return: 4:30 p.m.

Group Rate Tickets and Bus: $80 for adults; $50 for youth; $30 for children ages 1-4
Continental Breakfast foods served on bus
Pick up at West Park-n-Ride and East Park-n-Ride locations
Cafe Dining and lunch areas available

Register here!

Grief Retreat
2025-12-13 09:30 - 16:00 | Bon Secours Retreat & Conference Center, 1525 Marriottsville Rd,, Marriottsville, MD, 21104, United States
Join us as we reflect on how intrinsic “paradox” is to our human journey. Over time, we can see that the dry dead seeds of winter contain abundant life…and out of mud, lotus flowers grow….and that losing and finding can be great partners in the dance of life. Somehow, the heartbreak of loss can help break us open to new ways of seeing.
Wisdom and spiritual teachers enlighten us and help us see with “new eyes.” Come and learn and be encouraged by teachers from around the globe. We will have time for presentation, discussion, quiet reflection, journaling, wandering the Center’s grounds, and sharing stories-of-example. Lunch is included. Guided by Annie Hisle.

Greccio - Live Nativity
2025-12-13 19:00 - 21:00 | The Shrine of St. Anthony, 12290 Folly Quarter Road, Ellicott City, Maryland
Join the Franciscan Friars Conventual at the Shrine of St. Anthony for their annual live Nativity, inspired by St. Francis’s desire for all to witness the humility of God made man. Our live Nativity prayer service is outdoors and features animals, readings, hymns, and an opportunity for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Included this year, we will also have a relic of St. Francis of Assisi present during the service and available for view and veneration.
Greccio will be held by the big red barn on the Shrine of St. Anthony campus, Saturday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. All are welcome!

Annual Christmas Concert at St. Gabriel
2025-12-13 19:30 - 21:30 | St. Gabriel, 6950 Dogwood Rd, Windsor Mill, MD, 21244, United States
Join us on Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM in the school hall at St. Gabriel in Windsor Mill for our annual Christmas concert. The show will feature our talented pastorate choirs from St. Gabriel and St. Charles Borromeo: adults, children, English, and Spanish! Drinks and refreshments are included. Our theme is “The Meaning of Christmas”, and proceeds will benefit our Music Ministry. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children under age 12, or $40 for a family of four.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Celebration
2025-12-14 12:00 - 18:00 | Seton Shrine
Our Lady of Guadalupe Celebration
December 14th at the Seton Shrine
3 pm | Talk with Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala Auxilary Bishop, Archdiocese of Washington on the topic, “Do not be afraid. Am I not here, I, who am your Mother?” These are words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego and convey a great message of hope and Our Lady’s closeness during the uncertain times many people are currently going through.
4pm | Mass
12 – 6pm | La Carreta Tacos y Tortas food truck available
View more information here!

¡Celebración de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe!
2025-12-14 12:00 - 18:00 | Seton Shrine
¡Celebración de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe!
14 de diciembre en el Santuario Seton
3pm | Charla con el Obispo Auxiliar Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, Arquidiócesis de Washington, sobre el tema: «No tengas miedo. ¿No estoy yo aquí, que soy tu Madre? ». Estas son palabras de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe a Juan
Diego y transmiten un gran mensaje de esperanza y de la cercanía de la Virgen en estos tiempos de incertidumbre que atraviesan muchas personas.
4pm | Misa
12 – 6pm | La Carreta Tacos y Tortas camión de comida disponible
Para obtener más información, comuníquese con la Hermana Judith Rojas, D.C. al 202-740-1540

Christmas Festival of Music
2025-12-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Our Lady of Grace, 18310 Middletown Road, Parkton, MD, 21120, United States
Celebrate the joy of the season! Join us as our choir, musicians, and special guests share the message of hope and love through timeless carols and festive songs. Light refreshments and fellowship after the concert. Admission is free. Donations are welcome.

Advent Choral Service on Gaudete Sunday
2025-12-14 16:00 - 17:30 | St. Joseph (Cockeysville), 100 Church Lane, Cockeysville, MD, 21030, United States
St. Joseph Parish Choir and Schola will perform works by Handel, Bach and Berthier with selected scripture readings. Renowned classical guitarist Robin Bullock will perform popular will holiday carols.

Lessons & Carols and Tree Lighting
2025-12-14 16:30 | St. Ursula Church, 8801 Harford Road, Parkville, MD, 21234, United States
Join St. Ursula Church’s Christmas Tree Lighting and Carols event on December 14.
Lessons and Carols begins at 4:30 p.m., Tree Lighting at 5 p.m.
Followed by homemade treats in the Spiritual Center

A Festival of Lessons & Carols
2025-12-14 17:00 | Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, 5200 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
A Festival of Lessons & Carols
A beloved Advent tradition blending scripture & song. The Cathedral will be filled with music to prepare your heart for Christmas
Sunday, December 14, 2025
5:00 pm
Cathedral of Mary Our Queen
5200 N. Charles St.
Baltimore MD
Free will offering accepted

Advent Taize Prayer Service
2025-12-16 19:00 - 20:00 | St. Ignatius Catholic Community, 740 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD, 21202, United States
An Advent Worship Service in the spirt of a Taizé prayer service: Quiet, reflective, and meditative… designed to foster a sense of unity, peace, and a contemplative journey from “head to heart.”

Online Evening Prayer with Young Adults
2025-12-16 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom (Online)
Young adults ages 18+ are invited to online evening prayer with the School Sisters of Notre Dame on Tuesday, December 16 at 8 p.m. ET. There will be time for faith sharing with young adults and sisters from all across the U.S. and Canada. Learn more and register for the Zoom link at ssnd.org/events/.

Memorial Mass
2025-12-17 19:30 | St. Patrick Church, 319 S S Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21231, United States
Please join us for a Memorial Mass. Bilingual Mass & light reception offered for those grieving the loss of children through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, abortion, stillbirth, or infant death.
Wednesday, December 17, 7:30 p.m.
St. Patrick’s Church (Broadway & Bank St)
1728 Bank Street
Baltimore, MD 21231

Misa Conmemorativa
2025-12-17 19:30 | St. Patrick Church, 319 S S Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21231, United States
Por favor, únase a nosotros para una misa conmemorativa. Misa bilingüe y recepción ligera ofrecida para aquellos que están de duelo por la pérdida de hijos a aborto espontáneo, embarazo ectópico, aborto, muerte fetal o muerte infantil.
Miércoles 17 de diciembre, 19:30 horas.
Iglesia de San Patricio (Broadway y Bank St)
1728 Bank Street
Baltimore, MD 21231

Advent Day of Healing, Mercy, & Hope
2025-12-19 08:30 - 20:00 | St. Ursula Church, 8801 Harford Road, Parkville, MD, 21234, United States
Join us for an Advent Day of Healing, Mercy, and Hope, featuring a full day of Adoration following the 8:30 AM Mass, the Sacrament of Reconciliation from 9–11 AM and 4–6 PM, and a special Holy Mass of Atonement and Healing from 6:30–8 PM. This Mass offers a prayerful space to bring Christ your burdens of grief, hurt, or unforgiveness as we prepare our hearts for His coming. All are invited to encounter the healing love of our Savior this Advent.

Rorate Caeli Mass
2025-12-20 06:00 | St. Peter Claver, 1526 N Fremont Ave,, Baltimore, MD, 21217, United States
St. Peter Claver Chapel
Saturday, December 20, 6 a.m.
Join us for the beautiful eighth-century Advent tradition of the Rorate Caeli Mass. The term originates from the first Latin words of the introit to the Fourth Sunday of Advent Mass and the votive Masses of the Blessed Mother, Rorate, Caeli, Desuper, meaning “Drop down, ye heavens!” It is celebrated before dawn in honor of the Blessed Mother. In the quiet winter darkness, worshippers arrive with lanterns or candles to light the chapel – symbolizing Mary as the Dawn and Christ as the Perfect Day.
All are invited to bring a lantern or candle for this candlelit liturgy. Breakfast will follow in Ignatian Hall.
Please register at https://st-ignatius.net/roratecaeli

Prayer Vigil for Homicide Victims and an End to Violence
2025-12-29 18:00 | St. Joseph Monastery, 3801 Old Frederick Road, Baltimore, MD, 21229, United States
Prayer Vigil for Homicide Victims and an End to Violence
Monday, December 29, 6 p.m.
The vigil will begin at St. Joseph’s Monastery for a prayer service then the walk will take place to My Brother’s Keeper.

New Year’s Eve Retreat
2025-12-31 09:30 - 16:00 | Bon Secours Retreat & Conference Center, 1525 Marriottsville Rd,, Marriottsville, MD, 21104, United States
Surprise Ahead!
What if we knew each morning, each start of a day (or a year) to be full of promise and good, and so we met each one with expectation and joy? What if we woke up and barreled into the new day like children hurrying to the tree on Christmas morning? Is that only for little ones? Can we hear God saying as we wake, “I have a gift for you, and I can’t wait for you to open it, to see it.” Imagine! As we approach 2026, is it possible we can see and live this way? What gets in the way? Before the night of fireworks, toasts, first footings, (or early bedtime!), spend the day with the Hope who holds you, who will help you hold fast to hope, wonder, and surprise. Lunch is included. Guided by Joanne Cahoon.

Baltimore’s 33rd Annual New Year’s Eve Interfaith Prayer Celebration
2025-12-31 20:00 - 21:30 | St. Ignatius Catholic Community, 740 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD, 21202, United States
The Historic St. Ignatius Church at Calvert and Madison Streets will join the Baltimore New Year’s Eve scene with its 33rd Annual Interfaith Prayer Celebration.
In this gathering with people of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist faith traditions we will offer thanksgiving to God for the blessings of this past year and will pray for continued blessings in 2026. Also offering prayers for the City of Baltimore will be various governmental officers – the Baltimore City Mayor, the City Council President, Baltimore City Police Commissioner, and many others from religious, civic and political institutions. The Archbishop of Baltimore, Archbishop William J. Lori is an honored guest.
There will also be the phenomenal music by the St. Ignatius Choir, instrumentalists, and guest soloists.
The Program is from 8:30 – 9:30 PM with pre-event music beginning at 8 PM. This event is free of charge.
740 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 ● www.st-ignatius.net ● 410-727-3848
