The mother and father were among the roughly five dozen worshippers who attended the first “Blue Christmas” service at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Glenview on Wednesday, which was ...

It was moods like this that “Blue Christmas” church services were made for. There are always people who react to the season’s forced festivity with gloom, after all. The holidays shout-sing ...

The Rev. Camille May speaks during a Blue Christmas service at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas on Thursday, Dec. 14.(Allison Slomowitz / Special Contributor) In 2015, Dallas-area ...

A woman dressed in black joined. With a deep blue ribbon in her hand, she approached the Christmas tree and hooked the bow into the branches. She wept as she turned to begin the retreat to her pew.

The poinsettias are white, not red. There's just soft candlelight and quiet prayers— what's called a "Blue Christmas" service. It's an alternative offered by a growing number of churches in the ...