[Salvation]

**it is a great joy.**

Amen!

Feast of the Nativity coming up!

How many Protestants have three or four Masses (services) on Christmas Day?

[Land of the Irish]

How many Protestants have three or four Masses (services) on Christmas Day?

How many Catholics have three or four Masses on other Holy Days of Obligation. None - in my area.

[Maximilian]

How many Protestants have three or four Masses (services) on Christmas Day?

I think it's a mistake to look at this in a partisan spirit as though it were the Yankees versus the Red Sox. Instead we should look at it as a wake up call to ourselves. As Jesus was fond of saying, "Do not even the pagans do as much?" Catholics had a 30 percent head start over the protestants just a generation ago, and look how quickly we have lost it.

Regarding the protestant services on Christmas, that's easily answered by the fact that they have so many more churches. For example, our town has 1 Catholic church and at least a dozen different protestant denominations. They don't need so many people in one church to add up.

Regarding the percentages, these numbers are much, much higher than what is counted in the Catholic churches every October. I think what happens is that everyone who intended to go to church, both Catholics and protestants, answers "Yes," even though on that particular Sunday they may have slept in or been travelling or so forth. They answer "Yes" if they think of themselves as churchgoers even if they didn't technically go to church last Sunday like the question asked them.

[cupcakes]

How many Protestants have three or four Masses (services) on Christmas Day?

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Obviously this is a race for some people.

BTW, I am Lutheran we have ONE service on Christmas day, several on Christmas Eve, and every Wed there has been an Advent Service. Do I win?
Geez, how stupid is this?

Look, you can put your head in the sand, but what this poll says is that your fellow Catholics are NOT doing their duty. Instead of having a pee pee match with Protestants, why not go out in your community to Catholics who are lax in what is required of them by their church and find out WHY they are not attending service. Surely you aren't trying to posture here that 100% of Catholics attend service IN YOUR AREA every week are you? I wouldn't make that claim as a protestant, I doubt you can as a Catholic or did I miss the part where God made Catholics sinless? Good gravy!