Posted on 12/22/2011 3:43:35 PM PST by Salvation
My youngest is in the children’s choir so the 4 pm vigil mass for us - also that way my older daughter’s boyfriend can go with us because he has to be back to his ship Christmas day.
There will be overflow seating in the church basement and the school gym - I think that second one might be a separate mass. But we will have to be there by 3:15. All the Christmas and Easter Masses are standing room only. Not swearing to 7 am, though.
Here is a plea to be kind to Christmas Catholics: When I was visiting my mother, who is not Catholic, I called the church in town to ask the Christmas mass schedule. The secretary snapped at me, “The same as every week.” Not very welcoming to the visitor, and no way to bring the wandering sheep back to the fold.
How wonderful of you to share that gift.
Midnight Mass
That wasn’t too cool. On our church phone system we can put different messages — and one of them will be the Mass times for Christmas. It’s also in the windows of the front doors.
We always have the Mass Times as a selection on our phone system.
8:00 AM Christmas Day. The “schola” Mass. Gonna be beautiful and it will be the first Christmas in decades that I am not exhausted.
We will be attending the 9:00am TLM Mass at our parish on Christmas morning.
Merry Christmas!
You mean that they didn’t talk you into helping with something? LOL!
Great post.
Our church believes in the older traditions. We kneel when we receive Communion. We don't hold hands and we don't feel the need to offer a sign of peace.
I know it's a little different from other Churches. But it works for us.
(The 11:30 Mass is a Latin Mass). I love it.
I will attend regular morning mass at 9am.
Sounds wonderful I don’t hold hands either. I just fold my hands, bow my head, close my eyes and pray to God, Our Father. It’s meant to be a private prayer betwen each personal and God, the Father, not a communal prayer.
If you look up a thread on FR or on the internet about liturgical abuses — Holding hands is one of them.
We always went to 7 am mass on Sunday morning every Christmas. We had to walk past our Christmas presents on the way out. The anticipation all during mass was almost unbearable! But when we got home, we opened our presents and played with them and didn't have to leave until we went to our grandma's for dinner in the afternoon. In those days, they didn't have 5 pm mass on Christmas Eve; it was only midnight mass - REAL midnight mass, at midnight!
We always went to 7 am mass on Sunday morning every Christmas. We had to walk past our Christmas presents on the way out. The anticipation all during mass was almost unbearable! But when we got home, we opened our presents and played with them and didn't have to leave until we went to our grandma's for dinner in the afternoon. In those days, they didn't have 5 pm mass on Christmas Eve; it was only midnight mass - REAL midnight mass.
I will be watching it on TV. NBC always broadcasts Midnight Mass from the Vatican. Don’t know anybody who will be able to take me to church and don’t have enough for cab fare.
I will be watching it on TV. NBC always broadcasts Midnight Mass from the Vatican. Don’t know anybody who will be able to take me to church and don’t have enough for cab fare.
Well, I’m hoping to take the Sacred Body to the hospital after the 8:00. I’m waiting to hear from the Tsarina of that ministry.
And, if God wills, I will go on a week long visit/retreat at a priory in Manhattan after Mary the Mother of God.
So "Angels Mass" at 7:00 PM and "King's Mass" at 10:30 AM Christmas Day.
Sounds great!
Midnight Mass. Hubby, daughter and I are in the choir, so we will be singing “Lessons and Carols” at 11:30, then Mass.
I don’t know that I have ever attended a Christmas morning Mass. We’ve always done Christmas Eve, either the children’s Mass or midnight Mass.
My parish has two 4:30 Christmas Eve Masses at the same time. One is in the parish hall gym and the other in the church. Both Masses are quite literally standing room only. It saddens me that we get about 1/4 that many on a regular weekend.
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