{"id":9935,"date":"2012-12-02T03:07:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T11:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=9935"},"modified":"2012-12-02T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T11:08:11","slug":"christmas-california-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/christmas-california-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas at the Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/calmiis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/missions\/directory.html\">California&#8217;s 21 missions<\/a> located between San Diego and Sonoma are celebrating Christmas with special programs ranging from concerts and candlelight processions to plays and prayers. Here is a list of missions and events the public can participate in. Some charge a fee and several are ticketed shows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission Christmas 2012 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/missions\/mission-christmas-events.html\">See details<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CARMEL<\/strong> Advent\/Christmas 2012 Reconciliation Saturdays of Advent @ 9:30 a.m.<br \/>\n<strong>SAN DIEGO<\/strong> 2012 Candlelight Musical Meditation by the Mission Choir with Classic Brass Dec 15-16<br \/>\n<strong>SAN LUIS OBISPO<\/strong> Novena for Our Lady is celebrated December 3-12, 2012.<br \/>\n<strong>SAN FRANCISCO<\/strong> Dec. 16, 2012, 5 p.m. Mission Dolores Basilica Choir Candlelight Christmas Concert<br \/>\n<strong>SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO<\/strong>\u00a0 Christmas Eve: Latin Midnight Mass, pre-Service Concert<br \/>\n<strong>SANTA CLARA<\/strong> &#8211; Santa Clara Chorale, Chanticleer Concert\u00a0 December 7-22, 2012<br \/>\n<strong>VENTURA<\/strong> Posada at the Mission Dec. 16-23, 2012<br \/>\n<strong>SANTA BARBARA<\/strong> Carols Followed by a Candlelight Museum Tour<br \/>\n<strong>SANTA CRUZ<\/strong> &#8211; Christmas Concerts December 1,2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 2012 Our Lady of Guadalupe Celebration<br \/>\n<strong>SOLEDAD<\/strong> missionsoledad.com<br \/>\n<strong>SAN JOSE<\/strong> Christmas at the Mission Sunday, December 16, 2012<br \/>\n<strong>SAN JUAN BAUTISTA<\/strong> \u00a0 El Teatro Campesino\u00a0 November 23\u00a0 -December 16<br \/>\n<strong>SAN MIGUEL<\/strong> Holiday Concert &#8220;The Messiah&#8221; November 30 and December 2, 2012<br \/>\n<strong>MISSION HILLS<\/strong>\u00a0 Mass schedule in Mission Church: Sunday @ 9 &amp; 10:30 a.m.<br \/>\n<strong>OCEANSIDE<\/strong> Christmas Concert with St. Chares Borromeo Choir and LEGACY choral ensemble, Live Nativity<br \/>\n<strong>SOLVANG<\/strong> Friendship House Christmas Hand-Bells Concert performed by senior residents. Monday, December 10, in the church, at 10 a.m..<br \/>\n<strong>SAN RAFAEL<\/strong>\u00a0 Daily mass, Phone 415-454-8141 ext. 12<br \/>\n<strong>SONOMA<\/strong> Docent Conducted Tours daily except Christmas and holidays. Call: 707-938-9560<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of California&#8217;s 21 missions located between San Diego and Sonoma are celebrating Christmas with special programs ranging from concerts and candlelight processions to plays and prayers. Here is a list of missions and events the public can participate in. Some charge a fee and several are ticketed shows: Mission Christmas 2012 &#8211; See details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}