Mass

MickySticks · 15-02-2012 05:14PM #1

When was the last time you attended mass? Not a wedding, a funeral or a christening just ordinary mass.

I can't remember, must be nearly 5 years ago.

token101 · 15-02-2012 05:15PM

MickySticks wrote: »

When was the last time you attended mass? Not a wedding, a funeral or a christening just ordinary mass.

I can't remember, must be nearly 5 years ago.

Christmas 2004. Friend cracked open a can 'discreetly' and the noise echoed through the whole church.

Chuck Stone · 15-02-2012 05:18PM

Brother's wedding in Jan.
Brother-in-law's father's funeral before Christmas.

It feels all a bit surreal now and it used to feel so normal, if spirit crushingly boring, as a kid.

Ellis Dee · 15-02-2012 05:18PM

Some time in the early 1960s. I wonder has the story changed or is it still the same old mumbo-jumbo today?:):):)

mikemac1 · 15-02-2012 05:19PM

Midnight mass every Christmas

Which takes place at seven pm

Temptamperu · 15-02-2012 05:20PM

Me Grannys funeral two year ago.

krudler · 15-02-2012 05:20PM

non funeral/wedding was about 2003, was thanks to an ex dragging me with her family, shudder.

smash · 15-02-2012 05:21PM

14 years ago and never again.

im invisible · 15-02-2012 05:23PM

Oh yeah! Another Mass debater....

Where To · 15-02-2012 05:23PM

I'm en masse right now.

kfallon · 15-02-2012 05:24PM

Ellis Dee wrote: »

Some time in the early 1960s. I wonder has the story changed or is it still the same old mumbo-jumbo today?:):):)

It's been updated to become more modern, Jesus got x-box, dvd player and an iphone from the 3 wise men while Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem with the aid of an African taxi driver! Mary looked radiant in her Penneys tracksuit while Joseph wore a shellsuit! When Mary gave birth it wasn't stars that shone in the sky, rather she sent a text message to all her friends saying, "I just gave birth to sun o God lol x" She also updated her facebook status to "Full time mother"

Mary is no longer referred to as "The Virgin Mary" but as "Frigid Mary" and Jesus wasn't born in a manger but in a very nice hostel which did full Irish breakfast for Mary & Joseph the following morning for €7.99

xzanti · 15-02-2012 05:25PM

Me and the Church are what you would call 'fair weather friends'

If it's not going to be followed by a meal or a session... I'm out.

Although I do pray and I do believe in God... I just don't do mass.

Freddie59 · 15-02-2012 05:26PM

Last Saturday night.:)

MickySticks · 15-02-2012 05:26PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Brother's wedding in Jan.
Brother-in-law's father's funeral before Christmas.

It feels all a bit surreal now and it used to feel so normal, if spirit crushingly boring, as a kid.

I'm sorry did I not make the "not a funeral, wedding or christening" part clear enough?

Freddie59 · 15-02-2012 05:27PM

xzanti wrote: »

Me and the Church are what you would call 'fair weather friends'

If it's not going to be followed by a meal or a session... I'm out.

Although I do pray and I do believe in God... I just don't do mass.

Fair dues for acknowledging Him.

MickySticks · 15-02-2012 05:27PM

Freddie59 wrote: »

Last Saturday night.:)

Bible basher :pac:

Freddie59 · 15-02-2012 05:27PM

MickySticks wrote: »

Bible basher :pac:

Not really. No-one's business except my own really.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 15-02-2012 05:27PM

Christmas of 07, when the the girlfriend made me go in order to set an example for the kids. I tried telling her NOT going would be a better example, but it didn't work.

Strangely, when she was telling the seven year old what was happening (when the bell rings, fpr example, it means God is apparently present) I learned more in that 40 minutes than I did in the fourteen years I regularly went.

MickySticks · 15-02-2012 05:28PM

Temptamperu wrote: »

Me Grannys funeral two year ago.

Did you read the OP?

mikemac1 · 15-02-2012 05:29PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

she was telling the seven year old what was happening (when the bell rings, fpr example, it means God is apparently present) I learned more in that 40 minutes than I did in the fourteen years I regularly went.

Were you never an alter boy?

Zebra3 · 15-02-2012 05:30PM

Some time during the 90s.

Why would anyone go every week when 99% of it is just the same crap over and over again?

Nothingbetter2d · 15-02-2012 05:31PM

aside from the obligatory family related events i dont believe in attending the teachings of a church that openly shelters pedophiles and hypocrites.

Religion is only for those too weak minded to believe in their own faith and must follow the rantings of others like sheep.

Pace2008 · 15-02-2012 05:31PM

In terms of bog-standard Sunday service, I'd say it was about 4 years ago or thereabouts. I used to go pretty much every Sunday to appease the Catholic mother. I hadn't quite stopped believing in some sort of God - was in a state of flux I guess - though I thought the CC's brand of religion was load of ****e by that stage.

I was on autopilot, parroting off the the usual refrains when I briefly came out of my stupor as I was muttering "We are not worthy" and it kind of hit me like "What? Not worthy of what? What is the absolute pile of self-loathing ****?"

Disappointed Mammy or no, I haven't set foot in a church again outside of family events and Christmas.

GLaDOS · 15-02-2012 05:31PM

Christmas 07, friend needed someone to go with so I went, despite my atheism. Before that? Can't remember, around confirmation time probably.

meoklmrk91 · 15-02-2012 05:33PM

I would say maybe around 6-7 years ago, my father got me a really good Christmas present (guitar hero) and he asked me to go with him to Christmas morning mass, I couldn't exactly say no after him forking out all that money so I went. He knows I am an atheist, but thinks it just a phase and tries to bring me back to the path of righteousness.

Duggy747 · 15-02-2012 05:34PM

Around 9 or 10 years ago because I used to go to meet up with a girl I was going out with and we'd scamper off to do naughty, un-Catholic things :pac:

Even then, I'd just stand at the doors where everyone just chatted to each other like you were out in the smoking area of a pub.

newmug · 15-02-2012 05:35PM

I dont go as often as I should. But the last time was Monday 3 weeks ago.

Funny how all the people who havent gone in years are the ones saying "I went once and learned more in that half hour than I did in 10 years as a kid":rolleyes:

Cheese Princess · 15-02-2012 05:36PM

I always go on Christmas Day but besides that it's been at least 15 years. But weirdly on Christmas Day just past I noticed that they've changed the words of some of the prayers. You know how you surprise yourself by still knowing all the words usually, but this time I didn't.

KeithAFC · 15-02-2012 05:36PM

Remember walking into a church during my one and only visit to Dublin and it was really weird with the mass. Didn't become a Catholic but the building had some nice architecture.

Birroc · 15-02-2012 05:37PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

Religion is only for those too weak minded to believe in their own faith and must follow the rantings of others like sheep.

what does this mean?

kfallon · 15-02-2012 05:42PM

KeithAFC wrote: »

Remember walking into a church during my one and only visit to Dublin and it was really weird with the mass. Didn't become a Catholic but the building had some nice architecture.

Surprised you didn't spontaneously combust :pac:

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