Spirituality

Celebrate Advent At United Church Of Los Alamos!

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United Church of Los Alamos invites the community to experience Advent at 9:30 a.m. Sundays. Courtesy photo

United Church of Los Alamos News:

The United Church of Los Alamos invites the community to experience Advent at 9:30 a.m. Sundays.

Advent is a time to prepare people’s hearts for the arrival of Jesus Christ. Each week leading up to Christmas, the church will light the advent candles signifying Hope, Peace, Joy and Love.

Worship includes music and singing, prayer, a children’s moment and a sermon.

Other opportunities this month:

  • Thrift Shop’s Everything Christmas Sale, 9 a.m. to
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LACW To Host Annual Holiday Prism Concert Saturday

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Scene from a previous Los Alamos Community Winds Holiday Prism Concert. This year’s concert will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Crossroads Bible Church. Courtesy/LACW

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

Be prepared to hear a whole genre of holiday music divide and subdivide into a wide spectrum of seasonal tunes. This audio spectacle is aptly called the annual Holiday Prism Concert, hosted by the Los Alamos Community Winds (LACW) at 7 p.m., Saturday at the Crossroads Bible Church.

According to the program notes, the concert is like a prism breaking up light; Read More

Funeral Mass For Christopher Ortega Dec. 12, 2025

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David Christopher Ortega Sept. 1, 1946 – Sept. 30, 2025 (link)

COMMUNITY News:

A Funeral Mass will be held for David Christopher Ortega at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church at 3700 Canyon Road.

A Rosary will be said at 10 a.m., before the Mass.

A reception will follow the Mass in the parish hall.

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Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum Annual Meeting Dec. 9

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Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum News:

The Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the Los Alamos Unitarian Church.

A light meal will be served at 6 p.m., to be followed at 6:30 p.m. by a presentation and elections of board members.

The presentation is entitled “The miracle of Life” and will draw upon new insights into presentations given this past summer.

The presentation will be recorded and streamed to the ZOOM site given at: https://losalamosfaithandscienceforum.org. Read More

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Invites All To 32nd Annual Creche Show Dec. 5-6 At 1967 18th St.

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Nativity scene from the 2023 Creche Show. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Nativity scene from the 2023 Creche Show. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Scene from the 2022 Creche Show, featuring nativities from around the world. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com Read More

TOTH: From Darkness To Light – A Service Of Lessons And Carols For Advent

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TOTH News:

In a recent Facebook post, travel writer Rick Steves extolled the virtues of one of his “favorite British experiences” – choral evensong in an English cathedral. But evensong, and the wider English choral tradition, doesn’t just happen in cathedrals, but in thousands of parish churches throughout Britain and the Anglican Communion, including here in Los Alamos.

A significant part of this choral tradition is the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. In the weeks following the end of World War I, the chaplain of King’s College, Cambridge, Eric Milner-White, introduced a new Read More

Travel: Modernity Meets Ancient Charm In Casablanca

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Casablanca sign at Mohammed V Square. Photo by Debbie Stone

Arab League Park. Photo by Debbie Stone

By DEBBIE STONE
Santa Fe
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Casablanca is Morocco’s largest city and economic hub, boasting a major port, but many travelers bypass it, using it only as their entrance and exit point in the country. Perhaps this is because its modern appearance doesn’t fit their romanticized vision of Morocco, lacking the allure of beloved tourist hot spots like Marrakesh or Fes.

During my recent trip to this North African country, I decided to spend two days in Casablanca to check it out Read More

Fr. Glenn: Getting Travel Ready

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Wow. The season of Advent begins today (Nov. 30 this year). Already. And yet Advent for Christians a time of watchful hope. In this special time we are invited to lift our eyes toward two horizons: the first, remembrance of the first coming of Jesus at Christmas; the second, His final coming in glory at the end of time. Because how we prepare for one reveals how we are preparing for the other.

In today’s Catholic Mass Gospel reading, Jesus says, “Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come,” and to emphasize the point, He recalls the story of Noah, when people were Read More

All Shall Be Well: Slow Down, Advent Is Here

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, and The Rev. Mary Ann Hill. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By Deacon Amy Schmuck
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church

As you read this, Christian communities have celebrated the beginning of a new liturgical church year with this Sunday, Nov. 30. Advent season is here! What I most appreciate is that the messages in our church lectionary readings, the rhythm of our worship, and the music we use is counter-cultural to the hype, consumerism, stress, rush, and pressures of our society in December. We begin a new Read More

Rabbi Jack: Pilgrims And A Jewish Pilgrimage Festival

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Rabbi Jack Shlachter in front of a Sukkah (temporary booth). Courtesy/Beverly M. Post

By Rabbi Jack Shlachter
Los Alamos Jewish Center

If you’re like me, you are probably still trying to work off some of the extra calories that you consumed over a Thanksgiving meal. Rather than exercise, however, I thought I’d address a question that came up recently regarding whether or not Thanksgiving is truly a secular holiday. As the sole rabbi in Los Alamos (I jokingly sometimes say that I’m the Chief Rabbi of Los Alamos), I therefore recently reexamined the origins of the holiday of Thanksgiving. 

I Read More