Midnight Mass

InkSlinger67 · 25-12-2011 12:24AM #1

Is it like Woodstock for Catholics?

"Look at us.....it's Midnight and we're rocking hard by celebrating mass. Can I get an Amen?"

senorwipesalot · 25-12-2011 12:27AM

Its so the priests can go on the piss on the 25th.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 25-12-2011 12:27AM

Too much drunken disorder in my town for it to be held anymore. Midnight Mass had to be moved to 7pm. Good job though, I've witnessed people vomiting in the aisles on previous years.

MagicSean · 25-12-2011 12:27AM

I'm getting really sick of people giving out about having to go to mass at Christmas because the mammy is making them. I'm talkin about people in their late twenties.

Just don't ****ing go if you don't want to. Grow a pair.

John Doe1 · 25-12-2011 12:28AM

Woah anti-christian thread, controversial for AH:eek:

chin_grin · 25-12-2011 12:30AM

John Doe1 wrote: »

Woah anti-christian thread, controversial for AH:eek:

You must be new here. :pac:

Min · 25-12-2011 12:32AM

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

Is it like Woodstock for unhappy atheists?

"Look at us.....it's Midnight and we're rocking hard by celebrating anti-Catholicism. Can I get a pat on the head?"

Sorry, but you might as well have posted that.

Kevin Duffy · 25-12-2011 12:33AM

I was at Midnight Mass back in the day when one of my mates rocked in and walked up to the altar, where he shouted "Father, if we all pull together we'll have a white Christmas", then left to a roomful of half-píssed people trying vainly to surpress their sniggers.

Freddie59 · 25-12-2011 12:54AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

I was at Midnight Mass back in the day when one of my mates rocked in and walked up to the altar, where he shouted "Father, if we all pull together we'll have a white Christmas", then left to a roomful of half-píssed people trying vainly to surpress their sniggers.

Wow! Such originality and bravery. What a man.:rolleyes:

Kevin Duffy · 25-12-2011 12:57AM

Freddie59 wrote: »

Wow! Such originality and bravery. What a man.:rolleyes:

That rolleyes smiley is really handy, isn't it? It tells you a lot about the people who use it straight away.

chin_grin · 25-12-2011 12:58AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

I was at Midnight Mass back in the day when one of my mates rocked in and walked up to the altar, where he shouted "Father, if we all pull together we'll have a white Christmas", then left to a roomful of half-píssed people trying vainly to surpress their sniggers.

You sure you're not getting it mixed up with this scene?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP7LHHR91lE

Leeg17 · 25-12-2011 01:00AM

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

"Look at us.....it's Midnight and we're rocking hard by celebrating mass. Can I get an Amen?"

Amen my brutha, peace to tha Jebus.

Everyone knows the hardcore go to Christmas mass. People fight for the front row from about 11pm onwards..

Kevin Duffy · 25-12-2011 01:02AM

chin_grin wrote: »

You sure you're not getting it mixed up with this scene?

Jesus, yeh, that's it! It's Like it's CCTV from 1987 or something!

chin_grin · 25-12-2011 01:04AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Jesus, yeh, that's it! It's Like it's CCTV from 1987 or something!

Ah alcohol. Turning sarcasm detectors off since........for ever.

Also...........how do you not watch the IT Crowd! Seriously! I mean..........c'mon!

Bumblegoose · 25-12-2011 01:05AM

Lads i counted 90 candles in my mass it was ****in class i tried to count the people but i kept losin count

Class mass all the same communion tasted daycent.

Kevin Duffy · 25-12-2011 01:06AM

chin_grin wrote: »

Also...........how do you not watch the IT Crowd! Seriously! I mean..........c'mon!

I did. WTF has that got to do with an incident 24 years ago?

Jess16 · 25-12-2011 01:07AM

Midnight Mass is at 9pm where I'm from (only in Ireland)

Joey the lips · 25-12-2011 01:07AM

If you dont do mass then cool. relax.

I do mass. Always did then again thats my faith.

If your faith is the x box then cool, enjoy

But feck off and leave me alone.

chin_grin · 25-12-2011 01:10AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

I did. WTF has that got to do with an incident 24 years ago?

Well the similarities in your fictional story and the incident in a popular sitcom are astounding. Don't you think? <puts on tin foil hat>

eyescreamcone · 25-12-2011 01:10AM

Joey the lips wrote: »

If you dont do mass then cool. relax.

I do mass. Always did then again thats my faith.

If your faith is the x box then cool, enjoy

But feck off and leave me alone.

Haha
You're silly !!!

Joey the lips · 25-12-2011 01:12AM

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Haha
You're silly !!!

I know.... So are you.

chin_grin · 25-12-2011 01:12AM

Joey the lips wrote: »

If you dont do mass then cool. relax.

I do mass. Always did then again thats my faith.

If your faith is the x box then cool, enjoy

But feck off and leave me alone.

Oh if only Xbox was a faith............<pew pew pew>

efb · 25-12-2011 01:12AM

Jesus loves tops! Woohoo! I'm saved!

later12 · 25-12-2011 01:13AM

Have been watching Midnight mass here as is our custom.

So pompous, such noble feeling, such delicious ceremony to it all. The only thing Catholics do better than a good Christmas is a good funeral.

But the reason why Christmas is far more enjoyable (apart from nobody having snuffed it, of course) is because it's all so uncharacteristically positive.

For once, nobody's talking about crucifixions or fire & brimstone, or the joy of ascetic poverty. Even many non believers file into little country churches to hear about the vagrant child who was born King. It's the ultimate two-fingers to misery; I don't even care if none of it's true, the message at the centre of it is important.

As a non-Catholic and non believer, it definitely gets my vote. Religion could do with imparting more of this positivity more of the time.

Kevin Duffy · 25-12-2011 01:13AM

chin_grin wrote: »

Well the similarities in your fictional story and the incident in a popular sitcom are astounding. Don't you think? <puts on tin foil hat>

The story is not fictional and unless Graham Linehan was there that night, which is possible but unlikely, the similarities are a coincidence. You do know that there are other TV and film scenes in churches, as well as real life events, not all related to each other, yeh?

chin_grin · 25-12-2011 01:15AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

The story is not fictional and unless Graham Linehan was there that night, which is possible but unlikely, the similarities are a coincidence. You do know that there are other TV and film scenes in churches, as well as real life events, not all related to each other, yeh?

You know that your mate is an absolute legend! Wow. Wish I could have the balls your mate did twenty odd years ago. I mean. To go up right, go up. Right up to the priest. No. See. Right up to the priest in the middle of a mass. Wow. I mean. What balls!

"Hearsay and conjecture are forms of evidence your honour."

InkSlinger67 · 25-12-2011 01:15AM

Min wrote: »

Sorry, but you might as well have posted that.

I didn't mean to cause offence. I was just wondering what the thrill is with having mass at this time of day. What's wrong with having it at a reasonable hour either on Christmas Eve or Day.

From a countryside perspective I can understand it - getting those heathens out of the pub "after hours", it would be the only viable time to save their souls in fairness.

I remember people getting really excited about mass at this hour. It was "An Event"! Maybe I'm looking at it all through Father Ted goggles.

Lust4Life · 25-12-2011 01:16AM

No Midnight Mass where I live. I miss it.

Although I do not miss being a Choir Member - they expect Choir Members to attend as many of the masses as possible. With a 5PM mass, a 7PM mass, a Midnight Mass and a Christmas Day Mass, where do you draw the line?

eyescreamcone · 25-12-2011 01:16AM

chin_grin wrote: »

Joey the lips wrote: »

If you dont do mass then cool. relax.

I do mass. Always did then again thats my faith.

If your faith is the x box then cool, enjoy

But feck off and leave me alone.

Oh if only Xbox was a faith............<pew pew pew>

Merry xbox
One and all!!!

Kevin Duffy · 25-12-2011 01:17AM

chin_grin wrote: »

You know that your mate is an absolute legend! Wow. Wish I could have the balls your mate did twenty odd years ago. I mean. To go up right, go up. Right up to the priest. No. See. Right up to the priest in the middle of a mass. Wow. I mean. What balls!

"Hearsay and conjecture are forms of evidence your honour."

That tinfoil hat is not working.

chin_grin · 25-12-2011 01:18AM

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Merry xbox
One and all!!!

<shouts abuse down the mic on live>

And a happy motherf*ckyomommaintheface newb!

Midnight Mass

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