For a quarter century, a Catholic deacon in California has transformed his home into a cosmic light show for Christmas. Now, he’s at it again:

It’s one thing to get the ladder out, drag the holiday light string up to the roof and pound the U-shaped nails into the gutter. It’s entirely another to have enough filaments and bulbs to need your own PG&E transformer to run them all.

A combination of carefully crafted themes, yeoman’s work by a small army of volunteers and enough wattage to be seen by denizens of the International Space Station has made 352 Hillcrest Ave., on Livermore’s east side a popular stop for Christmas light display fans young and old from all over the East Bay.

This is the 25th year Deacon Dave Rezendes has turned his house into a bright, constantly-in-motion amalgam of lights, holiday messages and animated features. He calls it “Casa del Pomba,” Portuguese for “House of the Dove,” and it is a labor of love in more ways than one.

“I like to call it a ‘ministry of lights,'” said Rezendes, who plans and designs the annual displays in part to touch people on a spiritual level.

Though he is also celebrating his 25th year as a deacon at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Livermore, Rezendes stresses his display is “interdenominational.”