A selection of church services and church concerts in Munich. Due to the corona pandemic, a mask and distance requirement apply, in some cases also visitor limits (possibly with registration requirements) or 3G rules. The communities provide information.
Catholic churches
Christmas Eve: in the Liebfrauendom The Christmas mass begins at 10 p.m. with Cardinal Reinhard Marx, soloists of the Cathedral Orchestra and the Capella Cathedralis, who intone Max Eham’s Missa carminum. In St. Boniface From 10 p.m. the organist and vocal soloists get in the mood for the Christmas mass, which starts at 10.30 p.m. In the Theatine Church St. Kajetan will play Christmas carols at 8 p.m., accompanied by a trumpet and organ. In St. Michael At 10 p.m. the orchestra and Michael’s choir will perform the Rheinberger Mass in A major.
In St. Ludwig the St. John Berchmans Congregation celebrates a Christmas mass in English at 7.30 pm; The German Christmas mass begins at 10 p.m., the choir sings works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Ambroise Thomas. The Urner Musi plays at 12 o’clock in St. Maximilian alpine folk music; Families with small children are invited at 2 p.m., schoolchildren at 4 p.m., and at 10 p.m. there is a celebration with the St. Maximilian choir, wind instruments and traditional Christmas carols.
At 12 noon the sound is heard in St. Peter the Petersturm music; Karl Kempter’s pastoral mass will sound at 10.30 p.m. Christmas mass starts at 5 p.m. in the Asam Church. Heart of jesus celebrates at 10.30 p.m. with traditional Christmas carols, instrumental and vocal pastoral music. In the Citizens Hall Church the Augustiner Christkindl will be exposed at 10 p.m. Maria Visitation invites you to the candlelight procession at 10 p.m. Christmas mass in Spanish begins at midnight.
In St. Ursula In Schwabing there is festive music for wind ensemble at 5 p.m. and the festival announcement according to the Roman Martyrology, at 11 p.m. the congregation celebrates with Christmas music by Balastre, Listz and Bach. St. Andrew invites families to an open-air shepherd’s game at 3 p.m. From 5.30 p.m. the organ and string quartet will tune into the Christmas mass at 6 p.m.
First day of Christmas: Cardinal Reinhard Marx celebrates at 10 a.m. Liebfrauendom, while soloists from the Capella Cathedralis play Franz Xaver Brixi’s Missa brevis in D; the pontifical vespers at 5.30 p.m. perform the cathedral singing boys, girls’ choir, young cathedral choir and cathedral blowers with works by Max Eham and Joseph Ignaz Schnabel. In Heart of jesus can be heard at 10.30 a.m. Kempter’s pastoral mass as well as motets and Schnabel’s Transeamus. In St. Boniface present at 10 o’clock the vocal quartet and string quintet Franz Schubert’s Mass in G major, D 167. The choir of St. Ludwig sings works by Hector Berlioz, Georg Friedrich Händel, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen at 10 a.m.
In St. Maximilian at 10.30 a.m. the choir and orchestra will play Josef Haydn’s Nikolaimesse and Christmas carols. St. Kajetan invites you to the Latin mass with the vocal band at 10.30 a.m. In St. Ursula a vocal quartet will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Missa brevis in G KV 140 at 11 a.m. In St. New Years Eve The Jesuits invite you to the series “Thinking and Praying” at 11 am with music by Johann Ernst Eberlin, performed by a vocal ensemble and a string quintet.
The early music ensemble of St. Paul brings Christmas trio sonatas on transverse flute, baroque violin, baroque cello and continuo to hearing at 11 a.m. At 6.30 p.m. there is in St. Rupert Baroque music and traditional Christmas carols for two trumpets and organ. In St. Peter Mozart’s Missa solemnis sounds at 10 a.m. In St. Michael Michael choir and orchestra present the Rheinberger Mass in C major at 10 a.m. At 11 o’clock in Holy Spirit you can hear Mozart’s Missa Brevis in G major.
Christmas Day: in the Liebfrauendom Mozart’s Missa brevis will be played at 10 o’clock in G KV 140. In St. Peter there is Josef Haydn’s Small Organ Solo Mass at 10 a.m. In St. Michael Michael Choir and Orchestra perform Anton Diabelli’s pastoral mass in F. In the Citizens Hall Church Works by Georg Friedrich Händel, Max Reger and Camille Saint-Saens will be heard at 11.30 a.m. St. Kajetan invites you to a Latin high mass at 10.30 a.m. the vocal band intones the Missa Brevis in B flat (KV 275) by Mozart for soloists, choir and orchestra and the Transeamus usque Bethlehem by Joseph Ignaz Schnabel.
There is Christmas instrumental music at 10.30 a.m. Heart of jesus. At 11 a.m. plays in St. Paul the instrumental ensemble works by Josef Haydn and Carl Friedrich Abel; At 8.15 p.m. the “TatOrtZeit.Andacht” begins on the subject of “Royal: Gold-Frankincense-Myrrh – what the magicians brought to the baby Jesus according to the Gospel of Matthew was more than a mild gift”.
Protestant churches
Christmas Eve: From 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. St. Mark Open to linger at the crib and stable, from 3:30 p.m. every hour music, readings and impulses for Christmas Night. At 5 p.m. there is an outdoor Christmas vesper on the Meadow at the Pinakothek der Moderne at “UFO”, the wind ensemble of the St. Markus trombone choir plays. In St. Matthew The Munich Motettenchor sings at 4 p.m. There will be ecumenical prayer at 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on the Sports field of the TSV Solln, accompanied by the brass choir of the Apostle Church. In the Christ Church The nativity play “Three Angels on the Roof” begins at 3:30 p.m. for families with children aged eight and over. St. Luke invites you to linger with music and the Christmas story from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Gospel is at 6 p.m. in the Nazareth Church. In St. John The brass ensemble PreysingBrass plays at 11 p.m. Family Christmas with Murks, the Christmas sheep, takes place at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. in the Assumption Church Sendling. in the Garden of the Bethlehem Church At 5.30 p.m. wind players from the Bavarian Horn Society play. in the Courtyard of the Kreuzkirche An open-air Christmas vesper starts at 4.30 p.m. An open-air church service begins at 3 p.m. on the Meadow in the Untergiesinger rose garden, at 5.30 p.m. the trombone choir plays in the Luther Church, after the Christmas mass at 11 p.m., the young people invite you to a fire tong punch in the parish hall.
the Holy Spirit Church opens from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. to enjoy organ music and a reading of the Christmas Gospel. In St. Paul At 12 o’clock there is a prayer with Isarbrass and a nativity play with donkey in the garden, at 11 p.m. the Christmas mass begins with baritone Mathieu Lanniel. From 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. there is a parcours church service with the stations of the Christmas story and Christmas carols in the Magdalenenkirche.
In the Thanksgiving Church Christmas mass with alphorn takes place at 10.30 p.m. “Family Christmas to go” is every 15 minutes from 12pm to 4.30pm in the Gethsemane Church offered. the Andreas Church invites you to a nativity play and wind choir at 3 p.m. Forsthaus Kasten. In the Passion Church is at 5.30 p.m. Christmas Vespers with church choir and sign language interpreter.
In the Olympic Church ecumenical children’s Christian vespers with a nativity play film take place at 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. In the Advent Church A nativity play by the children’s choirs begins at 3 p.m. and a Christmas vesper with violin and saxophone at 6.30 p.m. Family service is at 4 p.m. Garden of the Isaiah Church. At 3.30 p.m. the Church of Reconciliation one. At 2.30 p.m. there will be a dwarf service with the Odeon youth orchestra in front of the Church of the Redeemer instead of.
First day of Christmas: Regional Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm invites you to the church at 10 a.m. St. Matthew one, accompanied by the baroque ensemble Concerto Munich. The service will be broadcast on Bavarian television. In the Kreuzkirche a cantatas service begins at 11.15 a.m. Gethsemane Church at 11 am there will be a prayer for families and single parents, at 5 pm there will be “Lessons and Carols”, traditional songs and texts from England.
At 5 p.m. there is an open-air service with torches and alphorn Churchyard of the Dankeskirche, the Gospel Church invites you to Christmas in the forest at the same time Hardwood (Panzerwiese). There is always at 10 a.m. in the Gustav Adolf Church festive music for violin and organ and in the Assumption Church Pasing a singing service, and in the Paul Gerhardt Church sings the Paul Gerhardt Choir.
Christmas Day: In the Assumption Church Sendling a “Laudate Dominum” begins at 10 o’clock. St. Mark invites to cantata services at 11:15 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. In the Kreuzkirche there will be music and texts for Christmas at 9.30 a.m. The parish of Sophie Scholl invites you to an open-air service with a trombone choir at 5 p.m. Green area at the Echardinger Chapel one.
Singing services begin at 10 a.m. St. Luke, in St. John, in the Passion Church, in the Simeonskirche and in the Thanksgiving Church. At 10.30 a.m. there is a service with Quempas singing in the Apostle Church. The Gustav Adolf Church invites you to Christmas in the woods with a brass choir at 4.30 p.m. Perlacher Forest.