Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols

This is the traditional Lessons and Carols Christmas Eve Service with candlelight, scripture readings, and Christmas carols.

Free parking is available in the Bryan Center Parking Garage at 125 Science Drive. ADA parking is available in the parking lot at the same address.

This service is streamed live on YouTube and broadcast live on channel 12 of the Duke Hospital TV system and on the radio on 620 AM WDNC.

The Duke Chapel Schola Cantorum, soloists Ted Federle and Danielle Assessor, harpist Anita Burroughs-Price, Mallarmé Music, and conductor Zebulon Highben present composer Gerald Finzi's choral-orchestral work "In terra pax" as a prelude to this service. The cantata begins at 10:30 p.m., followed by the service at 11:00 p.m.

In the final years of his life, Finzi (1901-1956) completed "In terra pax," a setting of the nativity story from Luke, laced together with Robert Bridges's poem "Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913." This ethereal cantata reflects on the beauty of the first Christmas and its message for a broken world, echoed in the words of the angel: "And on earth peace, good will toward men."