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To: american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...

A great opportunity to post the highlights (or lowlights, if applicable) from the Mass you attended.


2 posted on 12/29/2005 8:59:57 AM PST by NYer ("Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion")
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To: NYer

I attended a Midnight Mass in the Tridentine Rite. It was lovely!


4 posted on 12/29/2005 9:15:08 AM PST by Lilllabettt
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Your post makes me realize how lucky we are in my parish - St. Mary of the Mills in Laurel, MD. Well trained lectors, a forty-member choir and brass ensemble at Midnight Mass before a packed house. It all went off without a hitch thanks to our compentent Director of Liturgy.


5 posted on 12/29/2005 9:20:15 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)
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To: NYer

We celebrated the 7:00 Vigil Mass at our local parish. Unfortunately our parish holds hands during the Our Father (ugh) but otherwise it was beautiful and reverent.

One funny thing happened, though. The fairly new altar boy holding the thurible during the Gospel swung it rather wildly all through the reading, resulting in a huge cloud of smoke just behind the deacon. You could see Father Pat getting rather agitated, and the poor parishioners seated nearby were engulfed!


12 posted on 12/29/2005 10:09:02 AM PST by notsofastmyfriend
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Our little Byzantine outreach parish celebrated Christmas Eve with the full Divine Liturgy, chanted in its entirety, all seats filled, and Father dressed in his finery: Goldcloth vestments and his miter, which is shaped like a crown. We don't have any snow (Alaska? On Christmas??) but the Christmas spirit is alive and well in our little church.


13 posted on 12/29/2005 10:19:53 AM PST by redhead (Alaska: Step out of the bus and into the food chain...)
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