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Going to Mass on Christmas Day?

  • 24-12-2012 08:42PM
    #1
    publicious
    Site Banned Posts: 131 ✭✭


    Well After Hours, tomorrow is the celebration of the birth of Jesus. Will ye be going along in your Christmas finest and swanning up for Holy Communion (like a fashion parade) so as to keep the parents happy? Or will ye be going along because you like to feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Or will you avoid like the plague so you can get up to speed on the latest happenings on Facebook or Netflix?

    Please don't turn this thread into yet another anti-church hate-fest.


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  • #2
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    No


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,734 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    no fcuk off


  • #4
    publicious
    Site Banned Posts: 131 ✭✭publicious


    WIZE wrote: »
    No

    I don't see the point in getting hammered when there's nothing to celebrate.


  • #5
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Going to midnight mass instead

    Oh wait, midnight mass is at 7pm!


  • #6
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    You're the one who has likened it to "the plague".


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  • #7
    DarkJager
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    It's a day for gettin wrecked and giving presets, nothing more.


  • #8
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Going to midnight mass instead

    Oh wait, midnight mass is at 7pm!


    8;30pm in my local parish church.

    I used to love going to mass as a kid with my mam and dad,Propper midnight mass at midnight.


    Now due to thugs and thieves robbing OAPs its back to 8;30pm these days.:(


  • #9
    dilapidating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭dilapidating


    DarkJager wrote: »
    It's a day for gettin wrecked and giving presets, nothing more.

    What about the dinner? :(


  • #10
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Haven't been inside a church since 2008, can't see that changing for a while...


  • #11
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    publicious wrote: »
    I don't see the point in getting hammered when there's nothing to celebrate.



    Having family and friends and loved ones around you.

    Seeing your childs face on Christmass morning as they are opening presents

    Having a roof over your head and clothes on your back

    Plenty to celebrate


    Seeing and realizing how very lucky you really are,when you see sad things from around the world and civil wars/enviromental disasters on the TV/News.




    So in fact you have lots to be thankfull for and to celebrate.:)


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  • #12
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    No, and I am not treating it as a piss up either (fed up of it). Just gonna enjoy food and good company and maybe play a few games too.


  • #13
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Nope, haven't been in many years.


  • #14
    GRMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    Yes, I like Christmas mass


  • #15
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    I go to Mass usually if I'm with the family because it's a big thing for my mam.

    But you wouldn't ever catch me dead taking communion, kneeling or praying. I just sit there politely and try not to get turned into a pillar of salt.


  • #16
    AK333
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭AK333


    Well I was planning on going out in about an hour but feel lousy. Have a cold and sore throat so see how I feel tomorrow. I like "Midnight Mass", love the carols, the feel good factor, love it all. I might pray for a speedy recovery!


  • #17
    publicious
    Site Banned Posts: 131 ✭✭publicious


    OneArt wrote: »
    I go to Mass usually if I'm with the family because it's a big thing for my mam.

    But you wouldn't ever catch me dead taking communion, kneeling or praying. I just sit there politely and try not to get turned into a pillar of salt.

    Would you ever grow up and show some maturity.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/archbishop-urges-lapsed-catholics-to-leave-the-faith-2959884.html


  • #18
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    publicious wrote: »
    Will ye be going along in your Christmas finest and swanning up for Holy Communion (like a fashion parade) so as to keep the parents happy? Or will ye be going along because you like to feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Or will you avoid like the plague so you can get up to speed on the latest happenings on Facebook or Netflix?

    A choice between fiction, fiction, and fiction.
    How will I fit it all in?


  • #19
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    publicious wrote: »

    Please don't turn this thread into yet another anti-church hate-fest.

    Two hopes of that and well you know it.

    Its why you started this stupid thread.


  • #20
    Jogathon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Jogathon


    Mass with whole family at 11. Opening presents after. I love Christmas.


  • #21
    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    publicious wrote: »
    Would you ever grow up and show some maturity.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/archbishop-urges-lapsed-catholics-to-leave-the-faith-2959884.html

    Pity they made it impossible to leave the RCC.


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  • #22
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Nope.
    I only go to mass for weddings, funerals, and christenings.


  • #23
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    publicious wrote: »
    I don't see the point in getting hammered when there's nothing to celebrate.

    And for those of us who don't drink...


  • #24
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Bring my grandchildren to mass tomorrow, all one of them :-)


  • #25
    publicious
    Site Banned Posts: 131 ✭✭publicious


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Nope.
    I only go to mass for weddings, funerals, and christenings.

    Oh, so you're "one of those" a la carte types.

    The very type who goes crying for a priest in his hour of need, yet doesn't support his parish because you want to be in the "hip-and-cool-I-hate-the-church" gang.

    You're the reason I won't get a seat tomorrow.


  • #26
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    I'm keeping it real and celebrating Yule.


  • #27
    supackofidiots
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 187 ✭✭supackofidiots


    Yeah. Will hit the ten pm mass tonight. I love the christmas mass, it's a really nice one to attend.


  • #28
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    publicious wrote: »

    You're the reason I won't get a seat tomorrow.

    Suffer little children to come unto me.


  • #29
    supackofidiots
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 187 ✭✭supackofidiots


    realies wrote: »
    Bring my grandchildren to mass tomorrow, all one of them :-)

    and more importantly doing it sober rather than hungover! ;)
    Congrats pal, and happy christmas to you :)


  • #30
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    No as I'm not Religious. I will however be celebrating the glorious secular holiday of Christmas! I worship Annual Gift Man who lives on the moon.


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  • #31
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Well I go to mass every weekend so yeah tomorrow at some stage. I hate Christmas mass though...too much bullsh*t choir music and all the spoilt children are on display....no thanks.


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