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Christmas Eve, Christmas Day Services in Lower Merion and Narberth

Find out when and where you can attend a church service on Dec. 24 or Dec. 25.

The following information about Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services in Lower Merion and Narberth has been compiled from each church's website. Unless otherwise specified, all listed times are for Dec. 24, Christmas Eve.

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Ardmore Presbyterian Church, 5 W Montgomery Ave, Ardmore:

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  • 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.

Ardmore United Methodist Church, 200 Argyle Road, Ardmore:

  • Children's service at 4 p.m.
  • Candlelight service at 7 p.m.

Saint Mark’s Armenian Catholic Church, 400 Haverford Road, Wynnewood:

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  • Confessions from 4 to 7:15 p.m.
  • Badarak at 7:30 p.m.
  • Procession bearing the Christ child to the manger (with children) at 8:30 p.m.
  • Christmas Carols following the procession
  • Christmas Day: Badarak at 10:30 a.m.

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 36 Ardmore Ave., Ardmore:

  • Children's Christmas Service with Christmas Pageant at 4:30 p.m.
  • St. Mary's Choir Concert & Traditional Christmas Service with Holy Eucharist at 10 p.m.
  • Christmas Day: Service with Holy Eucharist at 10 a.m.

St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 415 East Athens Avenue, Ardmore:

  • Candlelight communion at 5 p.m.
  • Traditional candlelight communiion at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.

St. George’s Episcopal Church, 1 W Ardmore Ave, Ardmore:

  • Family service at 4:30 p.m.
  • Favorite Christmas carols at 9:30 p.m.
  • Choral Eucharist at 10 p.m.
  • Christmas Day: sung Eucharist at 10 a.m.

St. Colman Church, Ardmore:

  • Vigil masses at 5 and 7:30 p.m.
  • Christmas Day: Mass at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and noon

Episcopal Church of The Redeemer, 230 Pennswood Rd, Bryn Mawr:

  • Christmas pageant at 4 p.m.
  • Holy Eucharist at 6 p.m.
  • Festival Eucharist at 10 p.m.

Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church:

  • Christmas Eve service with tableau at 4:30 p.m.
  • Christmas Even with communion at 8 p.m.
  • Christmas Eve Service with lessons and bells at 11 p.m.

Our Mother of Good Counsel, 31 Pennswood Rd Bryn Mawr:

  • Vigil masses at 6 and 9 p.m.
  • Christmas Day: Masses at 7:30, 9:30 and 11:15 a.m.

Saint John Neumann Parish, 380 Highland Ave, Bryn Mawr:

  • Mass with teen choir: 4 p.m.
  • Children's mass: 5:30 p.m.
  • Mass with choir: 8 p.m.
  • Christmas Day: Services at 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon

St. Christopher's Church, 226 Righters Mill Rd, Gladwyne:

  • Family Service with Holy Eucharist at 4 p.m.
  • Holy Eucharist with Sermon at 9 p.m.
  • Christmas Day: Holy Eucharist with Homily at 10 a.m.

Gladwyne Presbyterian Church, 1321 Beaumont Drive, Gladwyne:

  • 5 p.m., with music starting at 4:45 p.m.

St. Thomas of Villanova:

  • Mass in Rosemont Chapel and Villanova Church at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
  • Mass at Villanova Church at 10:30 p.m.
  • Christmas Day: 10:30 a.m. mass at Villanova Church

St. John's Episcopal Church, 404 Levering Mill Rd, Bala Cynwyd:

  • 7 p.m. Carols
  • 7:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist

Church of St. Asaph, 27 Conshohocken State Road, Bala Cynwyd: 

  • Family service at 5 p.m.
  • Choir mass at 10 p.m.

United Methodist Church of Bala Cynwyd, 314 Levering Mill Rd, Bala Cynwyd:

  • Christmas Eve Service at 4 p.m.
  • Christmas Eve Fellowship at 8 p.m.

Narberth Presbyterian Church, 205 Grayling Ave, Narberth:

  • Candlelight services at 5:30 and 8 p.m.

Saint Matthias Roman Catholic Church, 128 Bryn Mawr Ave, Bala Cynwyd:

  • 5 p.m., 7 p.m., midnight, with musical prelude at 11:30 p.m.
  • Christmas Day: 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.


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