Ah, Christmas Mass....

JC 2K3

So who else will be making their annual visit to the church either this evening or tomorrow?

If so, what's your favourite thing to do to keep yourself entertained while the kids sing Christmas carols and the priest berates us for our drinking habits(or just gives a nice friendly sermon, the priest last year was a bit of a psycho)? I like gazing at the high roof and the bright lights, personally.

Kur4mA

I won't be. I don't go to Mass and don't see any reason it should be any different at Christmas.

Suzywuzy

Usually go to midnight mass and to the choir beforehand for 40 minutes or so. Then back and open a few prezzies or just have a drink and go to bed. Duno this year tho cos the whole family not free to go to mass tonight. But that means I gotta sacrafice my ly in tomorrow morning !!! And I'm still in work now too !!! :mad:

Ruu_Old

I'll fall asleep in front of watch it on telly. I'll be going for a drive through an area near my house called 'Candlestick Lane', where houses are decorated very well (they are required and it is sponsored by the power company).

Random

No thanks, not my cup of tea. Would rather watch the movie repeats

Fast_Mover

Heading to 9pm Mass tonight with the rest of my family.
Use the time for reflecting on the past year/ponder about the coming year and what it has in store, listen to the choir, look at the people around me..
Then I head to the pub with a few friends for a socialable one or two (stomach's still in bits after last nights session!:().

GhostInTheRuins

No thanks, I'd rather watch telly instead.

Dord

No thanks.

Mossy Monk

I never go during the rest of the year. Why would I or anyone like me go tonight or tomorrow? I find it all to be a bit hypocritical to attend.

Duff

Nah, I'm going to the pub tonight ad I'll be playing with my santy toys all day tomorrow..:D

humbert

Went last year, regretted it, wont be going this year.

timmywex

im going, the best way to keep occupied is to stare at the cieling and try count all the little boxes on the roof in my church, then make sure you think you were wrong and do it again

FranchisePlayer

No never go christmas no excepetion only mass I been to was a funeral and that was required most people my age are made go by parents mine are atheists yeah:D

eamoss

SaxoDuff wrote: »

Nah, I'm going to the pub tonight ad I'll be playing with my santy toys all day tomorrow..:D

Oh can I come over and play. Me and Curran are going round to edlins to play with their new PS3 tomorrow about 6am

Havent gone for the last 2 years and not going tonight or tomorrow.

But when I did go I went to midnight mass at 10pm never understood that. But it went on for an hour and it was hell, felth like it was 5 hours long.

eroo

Mass..??Not a hope!I have some couch sitting to do instead..

MagicMarker

I'd rather disect my own testicles.

Terry

I saw some hot chick goinginto the church earlier.
If that's the type of people who go, then count me in.

eroo

Terry wrote: »

I saw some hot chick goinginto the church earlier.
If that's the type of people who go, then count me in.

its a trick!damn that Sister McGee and her ways..

Pigman II

I'm going to be generous and relinquish my seat to one of the people who go every week.

phasers

never gone

Sleepy

Even at the age of 27 it still causes grief when I say I'm not going. My whole family know I don't tolerate religion so it baffles me when they ask me to go to Christmas mass.

Though for anyone forced to go - do what I did the last time I was there: try and value everything in the church from the building and land, the furniture etc. right down to the flowers. Then think about how that money could have changed the world in a positive way.

Wertz

Haven't been since I was about 15 or so. Used to actually like midnight mass but when they dropped it back to 9pm a la saturday night mass, it lost that bit of magic. I'm not intent on going again anytime soon...

Toto Wolfcastle

I enjoy mass and I actually like the religious aspect of Christmas (as in, the reason we celebrate Christmas!) I respect every one's decision to go/not go to mass, but I find it hard to respect those (as in a good portion of the country) who do the whole present thing/celebrate Christmas yet don't believe in the reason we celebrate it. That's just my opinion though, and it seems like it'll be pretty controversial here! Doesn't bother me!

I'm not saying that I go to mass every week, but I do go, and I pray a few times a week. It's just my beliefs.

Having said that, I do get a kick out of seeing what toys the parents have allowed their kids bring to mass to shut them up. Last year I saw some dolls, books, and a hi-fi. Fun times.

MagicMarker

janeybabe wrote: »

I enjoy mass and I actually like the religious aspect of Christmas (as in, the reason we celebrate Christmas!) I respect every one's decision to go/not go to mass, but I find it hard to respect those (as in a good portion of the country) who do the whole present thing/celebrate Christmas yet don't believe in the reason we celebrate it. That's just my opinion though, and it seems like it'll be pretty controversial here! Doesn't bother me!

I'm not saying that I go to mass every week, but I do go, and I pray a few times a week. It's just my beliefs.

Having said that, I do get a kick out of seeing what toys the parents have allowed their kids bring to mass to shut them up. Last year I saw some dolls, books, and a hi-fi. Fun times.

So you don't respect most of the country including a lot of your friends? Nice:)

Xmas is a farce and is all about giving presents... YUS!!!

Sleepy

janeybabe wrote: »

I enjoy mass and I actually like the religious aspect of Christmas (as in, the reason we celebrate Christmas!) I respect every one's decision to go/not go to mass, but I find it hard to respect those (as in a good portion of the country) who do the whole present thing/celebrate Christmas yet don't believe in the reason we celebrate it.

Christmas pre-dates your religion. It was just known as different things before ye hijacked it. We can use 'Holiday Season' like the yanks if you prefer? :P

Toto Wolfcastle

MagicMarker wrote: »

So you don't respect most of the country including a lot of your friends? Nice:)

Xmas is a farce and is all about giving presents... YUS!!!

Ooooh putting words in my mouth, lovely Christmas present! Nah man, I said I find it hard to respect them, not that I don't! People can do what they want, doesn't bother me.

And I wont say no to presents!! But I wouldn't be upset if I didn't get a lot.

I'm coming across as a right goody-two-shoes here. I'm turning into my mother!

Also 'Holiday Season Shmoliday Season'!


I drink (alcohol) about 3 times a year if you want some more ammo!

ejmaztec

I'm going to outstare the priest, like I did last Easter and all the Christmases and Easters before. Just enough Catholic guilt left to get me in there twice a year and I still spend more time looking at my watch than reading the mass sheet.

eoins2345

Ya ill be going at 9 tonight.so boring am i just try to think about anything that keeps my mind off it.friends,girls,school,drink or somethin like dat

Jello

Not me.

Went once on Christmas day and never again, thanks.

Gran Hermano

Why break a tradition, I haven't gone in over 20 years and will not be going
this year either.

Dave!

I'll be laughing at the sh*t choir and scoffing at the ridiculous practices and ramblings. There ya go.

Cheeky_gal

I'm in a situation myself here....

The dads a pr*ck (but I love him), lets be honest, the man screams all day, curses to beat the band and then has the cheek to correct me on my "appauling language". The way I look at it is, I don't go to mass, I can pray in my own time, don't need to sit and kneel and read out of a leaflet. Doesn't make me any less holy than someone who goes to mass every day!

Now, it has been tradition to go every year, the 5 of us, but I don't want to go. I have a headache and lets be honest, I'd rather chat with you lot! HA!

But how hypocritical of my dad n the rest of them for that matter with their constant stress and bitchiness and then "ooooh God, forgive me for my sins" what BS! So I'd rather make it clear that I don't want to go. Don't enjoy the whole mass scene...

If I say it though, I will have "ruined christmas and tradition"....oooh I'm very confuzzled tonite!

Endasaurus

I'm gonna go tomorrow morning, its less hassle and more fun than sitting around on my own!!


I go most weeks though, my dad really appreciates that I make the effort even though I'm not gone on the whole thing. We have a huge fry up after and the whole morning makes him happy, therefore it makes me happy

daveirl

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Dudess

I'll go cos of the grief that'll inevitably ensue if I don't. But I usually just stand outside the church and chat to people I haven't seen since mass last Christmas.

The Muppet

janeybabe wrote: »

I enjoy mass and I actually like the religious aspect of Christmas (as in, the reason we celebrate Christmas!) I respect every one's decision to go/not go to mass, but I find it hard to respect those (as in a good portion of the country) who do the whole present thing/celebrate Christmas yet don't believe in the reason we celebrate it. That's just my opinion though, and it seems like it'll be pretty controversial here! Doesn't bother me!

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That just about sums up how I feel about it. I'm not a regular at attending mass but I do go Easter and Christmas and a few other times throughout the year. I don't believe you have to go to mass to be a good christian but I like to pay my respects on certain occasions. I leave it up to my kids if they want to go , 2 do and 2 don't, I don't believe in forcing them to go.

Cheeky_gal

Dudess wrote: »

I'll go cos of the grief that'll inevitably ensue if I don't. But I usually just stand outside the church and chat to people I haven't seen since mass last Christmas.

ha ha! Yea thats exactly what happens....!

Looks as though I'm going now...dad just came in and goes it's only 40 mins, you're going! so! What can ya do eh!?

Toto Wolfcastle

The Muppet wrote: »

That just about sums up how I feel about it. I'm not a regular at attending mass but I do go Easter and Christmas and a few other times throughout the year. I don't believe you have to go to mass to be a good christian but I like to pay my respects on certain occasions. I leave it up to my kids if they want to go , 2 do and 2 don't, I don't believe in forcing them to go.

Ah ya, I wouldn't be forcing anyone to go, and I was never forced. And there have been times that I haven't been able to go to mass that regularly, but I do pray in my own time, and sometimes that's enough.

Looking forward to it tomorrow anyway!

Gauge

The only upside of working Christmas Eve is missing out on the yearly mass/family gathering guilt-free!

yoyo

Havnt been to mass I'd say in 4 years, and I wont be changing that tonite or tomorow

Nick

Lazare

Endasaurus wrote: »

I go most weeks though, my dad really appreciates that I make the effort even though I'm not gone on the whole thing. We have a huge fry up after and the whole morning makes him happy, therefore it makes me happy

Very nice post. Gave me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

g5hn710m4xpdwy

I am forced to go. Evil, Evil people I say. Being forced into something one does not believe is a big backpack of farce.

/Steps down

Webmonkey

Either I go or my grandmother will die of a heart attack. Its true

Cheeky_gal

Webmonkey wrote: »

Either I go or my grandmother will die of a heart attack. Its true

aaaaaaaaaaaw thats so cute!!!

Pigman II

Webmonkey wrote: »

Either I go or my grandmother will die of a heart attack. Its true

You do know that's a really powerful bargaining chip you could use against her?

Tusky

Most certainly will not be going.

Nehpets

I won't be going unless guilted into it.

Ugh.. mass. I hate the damn seats, (in 97% of churches I've been in).

Not I! We've just left the pub & the missus has dropped me back at the house while she goes. wish she'd left me at the pub! :mad:

macroman

Father Ted all night tonight is the closest thing I'm getting to mass

OPENROAD

Nehpets wrote: »

Ugh.. mass. I hate the damn seats, (in 97% of churches I've been in).

That is actually one of the things that put me off going to mass.

....shell....

ill be going in the morning. usually go every week to keep the folks happy..once there happy so am i . i usually sit there thinkin about what i could be doing if i wasnt at mass . .at xmas mass usually just daydream,think about the whole year and people that arent here now