LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Christmas Eve in Los Angeles and Orange counties will be marked Wednesday by Masses and church services celebrating Jesus’ birth — as well as at the 66th annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration, billed by organizers as Los Angeles’ largest free holiday celebration.
Archbishop José H. Gomez will celebrate an English-language Christmas Eve Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles at 10 p.m. that will be preceded by Christmas carols with the cathedral’s choir at 9:30 p.m.
An English-language family Mass will be celebrated at 4 p.m. preceded by Christmas carols with the cathedral’s youth and children’s choir at 3:30 p.m…