Coming December 20th - The Annual St. Dominic Nativity Musical Production

St. Dominic Nativity Musical
Production of Dec. 14, 2014
             photo Paul Dinneen 

You are invited to the one evening performance of the Annual Nativity Musical production at St. Dominic Church on Sunday, December 20, 2015. 

Curtain at 6:00 pm sharp. Admission is free and all are welcome.  

This 37-minute musical, scripted, produced and directed by members of St. Dominic Parish is presented to the community each year at this time as gift of love, joy, hope and peace to the entire community. The entire cast, actors, singers and the St. Dominic Halleluia in Song choral group, costumers, technicians and crew are all pleased to make this significant, true to scriptures, musical production come alive with the message of the Birth of Jesus, King and Savior.

The final scene segues into a cast and audience singing of a few Christmas Carols. 

Note: There may be a few openings in the production. If interested, come to the church this Sunday, December 6th and arrive before the scheduled 6:30 pm rehearsal time.  See Director, Lisa Carroll to find out how about any openings or how you might help. 

Rehearsals and performance will be at St. Dominic Church located at Flanders Road and Laning Street in Southington, 

One Solitary Life *

A child is born in an obscure village. He is brought up in another obscure village. He works in a carpenter shop until he is thirty, and then for three brief years is an itinerant preacher, proclaiming a message and living a life. He never writes a book. He never holds an office. He never raises an army. He never has a family of his own. He never owns a home. He never goes to college. He never travels two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He gathers a little group of friends about him and teaches them his way of life. While still a young man, the tide of popular feeling turns against him. One denies him; another betrays him. He is turned over to his enemies. He goes through the mockery of a trial; he is nailed to a cross between two thieves, and when dead is laid in a borrowed grave by the kindness of a friend.

Those are the facts of his human life. He rises from the dead. Today we look back across nineteen hundred years and ask: What kind of trail has he left across the centuries? When we try to sum up his influence, all the armies that ever marched, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned are absolutely picayune in their influence on mankind compared with that of this one solitary life…

*Adapted from and original essay by Dr James Allan Francis in “The Real Jesus and Other Sermons” © 1926 by the Judson Press of Philadelphia (pp 123-124 titled “Arise Sir Knight!”).

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