Christmas at the Pro Cathedral in Dublin will be flavoured with Mozart as St Mary's celebrates the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, writes Fiona Gartland.
The Palestrina Choir with the Orchestra of St Cecilia will perform the composer's Missa Solemnis in C at both the vigil Mass at 10pm on Christmas Eve, with celebrant Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, and at 11am Mass on Christmas morning, celebrated by Cardinal Desmond Connell. The vigil Mass will be preceded by a carol service at 9.30pm.
At the cathedral of Christ the King in Mullingar the Christmas Eve vigil will take place at 10pm and Christmas Day Mass will be held at 8.30am, 10am, 11.15am and 12.30pm.
At the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Waterford the Christmas Eve Vigil will be celebrated at 9pm, with the Christmas Day celebration at noon.
Mass will be celebrated at the Galway Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas at 10pm tomorrow and on Christmas Day at 8.30am, 10am, 11.15am and 12.30pm.
The Vigil Mass in St Peter's Cathedral in Belfast will be celebrated at 9pm on Christmas Eve with Christmas Day Masses at 9am, 10.30am and noon.
St Anne's Church of Ireland Cathedral in Belfast will celebrate the Eucharist at 1pm tomorrow and at 10am, 11am and 3.30pm on Christmas Day.
Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, will celebrate the first Eucharist of the nativity at 11pm tomorrow and the Christmas Day service will be at 11am.
St Canice's Cathedral in Kilkenny will have services on Christmas Eve at 11.30pm and at 8am and 11.15 am on Christmas Day.
At St Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols will be held tomorrow at 3.30pm. The Eucharist will be celebrated at 8am on Christmas morning and at 11.15am the cathedral will hold the Festival Choral Eucharist.
The Russian Orthodox Church of The Holy Apostles, St Peter and St Paul in Harold's Cross, Dublin, will celebrate a Christmas service at 6pm on Christmas Day.
On January 6th, the church will host their special celebration at midnight.
The Moving Crib at St Martin Apostolate on Parnell Square will reopen on December 27th. Well known to generations of Dubliners, the crib, which is made up of 100 figures in 14 tableaux, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. In the capital's Pro Cathedral the Sicilian "Caltagirone's Crib", a life-size animated exhibition, will be on view until January 28th.
St Mary's will also be encouraging people to bring their unwanted gifts after Christmas so that they can be redistributed to those who will use them.
And from December 28th, Cribs Ireland at Farmleigh Gallery, in the Phoenix Park, will showcase designs for the Nativity scene by primary- to third-level students from all over Ireland.