On December 4, 2022 we will celebrate a very rich Second Sunday of Advent! Luca DiMassa will preach at both 7:30 a.m. in the chapel and 10:00 a.m. in the main church. At 10:00 a.m. Canterbury choir offers Shalom Aleichem by Friedman, arr. Edelman, with soloist Stephen McDonough.

At 9:00 a.m. in the Forum: We continue our “Where is the Hope?” series for Advent: Prisons and Mass Incarceration with Sharon Crandall and Anne Noble
The Los Angeles County jail system is the largest in the country, with an average daily inmate population of over 14,000. Although the jails were designed for temporary detention, many individuals are held in these aging and inadequate facilities for years awaiting their trials. Prism Restorative Justice provides loving spiritual care and holds inclusive worship services within the LA County jails. We bear witness to the inhumanity of incarceration, while at the same time attest to the beauty and amazing grace that may be found inside those walls. Join us to hear stories from some of our friends who are now free and to learn more about this essential work. If you can join us in person, we would love to see you! If not, stream the Forum live here.

Also at 9:00 a.m. join Ahren Martinez for the arts, crafts, music and good vibes of Family Hour — for parents and children (kindergarten through fifth grade) before the 10:00 a.m. service. Parents are welcome to participate or drop children off. Join us in the Learning Center (top floor of Regas House) for music, art, and fun! For more information, contact Ahren at amartinez@allsaints-pas.org.

Join Greeter Jenn McGaw in our Online Coffee Hour on Zoom after the 10:00 a.m. service.

From 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. we offer our annual Alternative Christmas Market in Sweetland Hall and The Guild Room. It truly offers an alternative to the commercialism of the holidays. We bring together local, community and international artists, Fair Trade and non profit organizations which give you the opportunity to purchase a unique gift or donate to an organization that is meaningful to you and which benefits the community and people who craft the items you see on display. We hope you will come and join us and help us celebrate the holidays in this joyful, special way. See the catalog here.

All day Sunday we’ll accept baby infant items for the City of Pasadena Public Health Dept. Black Infant Health Program. The Racial Justice Ministry joins with the Pasadena Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., in supporting The City of Pasadena Public Health Department Black Infant Health Program. Please feel free to drop off baby infant items on Sunday, in the Black Infant Health Program bin, near the All Saints Welcome Center, which will be delivered on December 10 to the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity’s “drive-thru” at the Pasadena Public Health Department.

Remember to check out The Angel Tree in the Regas House lobby! The All Saints Church Foster Care Project and the Children, Youth, and Families department continue the Angel Tree tradition, working with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in Pasadena to provide Christmas gifts to children and youth in foster care. Our goal is to provide 350 gift cards of extra Christmas cheer! Won’t you join us? You can take an envelope from the Angel tree at All Saints Church through this Sunday, December 4, or click here!

From 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., join the Small Group, Christ’s Nativity in Art and Literature: An Advent Journey, in the Seminar Room. Led by Wendy Furman-Adams. Over the four weeks of Advent, this small group offers a journey into the paradoxes of Christ’s Incarnation, as expressed over 1,500 years (more or less) in poetry, prose, hymnody, and the visual arts. We will enter into conversation with the humble young woman whose very humility leads to her exaltation as queen of heaven; with the Infant who pleads on behalf of all of us–before he has learned to speak; with the shepherds and magi transformed by their encounter with the infant God. We will enter into the mystery of liturgical time, by which Christ is repeatedly born–Hodie (this day)–in the eucharistic celebration of his birth. For these artists and poets, the strangeness of the scene overcomes all estrangement, bringing each of us into an intimate colloquy, a sacra conversazione, across the millennia. Register here. For more information, email Amanda McCormick at amccormick@allsaints-pas.org.

Finally, at 5:00 p.m. in the Church: Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols
In the warm ambience of the candlelit church, Coventry Choir offers motets, carols and canticles of intense, mystical beauty including music of Palestrina, Ireland, Beamish, Dove, Vavilov, arr. Ken Gruberman and Howells.

Streaming at 7:30 is offered on Zoom, and at 10:00 a.m. is offered on our website’s live stream page, our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Check out our live streaming page to download service leaflets and take part in our action of the week.

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For in-person worship, our guiding principle remains to follow common sense risk reduction guidance for as long as we remain in a declared public health pandemic, so to keep our community safe and well, our in-person worship guidelines include:

• Masks are still strongly recommended indoors on the All Saints campus, but they are now optional.
• Masks are optional outdoors.
• Both outdoor and indoor seating is available for services and communion will be served in both locations.
• Our expectation is that those entering the church will be vaccinated (if vaccination is available to them)
• Those who choose to be unvaccinated are requested to participate online.
• Those seated indoors are asked to maintain social distance between individuals/households.
• If we reach seating capacity in the church, ushers will guide you to alternative seating areas.
• We ask you not enter if you are experiencing any of the following symptoms: fever over 100.4°F or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, or if you have had contact in the last 14 days with someone diagnosed with or suspected to have COVID- 19.