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Going to Mass on Christmas Day?

publicious

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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TheChizler

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

Pity they made it impossible to leave the RCC.

Damn church with their mind control powers...

philologos

publicious wrote: »

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.

I'll be going to my home church tonight because I want to be there.

Sunnyisland

supackofidiots wrote: »

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

Same to you

Biggins

No.

efb

No.

I'm not welcome in the Church of Rome! Which suits me cos I wouldn't partake in such a bigoted organisations rituals

The Big Red Button

I'm not religious, so no, I won't be attending any religious ceremonies tomorrow.

SilverScreen

No.

I might go for a jog or a cycle instead of going to mass. More beneficial and worthwhile. Have to open the presents first though

Rayne Wooney

Free bread and wine? I'm there.

But seriously, no I'm not going to mass. I'm going to spend the whole of Christmad Day with the family.

Drafty122

yea boyyy

Stinicker

Not going to Christmas Mass for the second year in a row. I have been to Church twice since 2010 both times for funerals of people I knew. I did it to show my sympathy to their families.

Madam_X

publicious wrote: »

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?

What's with the confrontational, snide questions? You could have asked are people going because they're religious, or are people not going because they're not religious. Your hostility doesn't seem very christian.

publicious wrote: »

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.

Yes, people who don't believe in god and have a problem with the catholic church organisation are just trying to be "hip and cool" - keep telling yourself that.
Surely going to church just for hatches, matches and dispatches is done out of respect for those celebrating/mourning rather than being an a la carte catholic, and where is there even a hint that that poster would go crying for a priest in his hour of need?

I'm the same as him - it's because I think it would be wrong of me not to attend those ceremonies, as they are my friends'/relatives' days, not mine; a la carte catholicism doesn't come into it.
Bet you'd be bitching at people who choose not to attend weddings/christenings/funerals if held in a church.

Mint Sauce

Going tonight, work in the morning.

Wont be receiving though, still have that implanted belief, that I cant receive if have not been to confession after missing Sunday Mass. Actually like midnight mass (even though its not at midnight) at Christmas, its one of the only times I go barring weddings and funerals.

Wattle

Can never really understand Christians who only go to mass at Christmas. What about the other 51 weeks a year? Don't you need Jesus then?

branie

We have Mass tonight at 10pm, and I will be there with my parents

AK333

Feeling better already so heading for the Friary for 9pm. Merry Christmas everyone

mckenzie84

I'm agnostic and yes I'll be going. I go every year. It's a family tradition really. It's only an hour or so out of my life so what harm.

Agricola

Nah, stopped being a hypocrite circa 2001

LordSutch

publicious wrote: »

Going to Mass on Christmas Day?

For the sake of all Christian denominations you should have titled the thread "Will you be going to Church on Christmas day" . . .

Yes.

keano_afc

Not Catholic so I wont be going to Mass, but I will be going to church in the morning.

juan.kerr

LordSutch wrote: »

For the sake of all Christian denominations you should have titled the thread "Will you be going to Church on Christmas day" . . .

Yes.

Next you'll be questioning the use of the term 'Christmas'. For our muslin brothers.

candy-gal1

I think last time I went to Mass for christmas I was about 10 tbh, I remember that as I brought my new Barbies I had gotton that xmas, disco bendy barbie or something

Czarcasm

Madam_X wrote: »

hatches, matches and dispatches

Yoink! Totally stealing that one!

LordSutch

juan.kerr wrote: »

Next you'll be questioning the use of the term 'Christmas'. For our muslin brothers.

You Sir, have the wrong end of the stick.

Happy Christmas.

PauloMN

Church was full to the brim of fcukin part-timers tonight. I forgive them all though.

King of Kings

juan.kerr wrote: »

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

zimmos.

I heard great things about them

J Cheever Loophole

We're all heading tonight for 10pm Mass in Armagh City - have to be in for about twenty to, to get a seat, so heading off now!!

Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!!

Fizzlesque

publicious wrote: »

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.

No, I won't be doing any of the above tomorrow. No swanning, no parent-pleasing, no fruitless search for warm fuzzy insides, no plague avoidance, no desperate need to 'get up to speed' on Facebook or Netflix.

No anti-church hate-fest - in fact, no recognition that there are Christian slants to this time, no feelings in that regard, no acknowledgment at all.

Manach

Being a practicing Catholic for me it is de-rigeur. Although this year I was really surprised by the excellence of the choral music. The strands of "Gaudete" and other hymns lent the occasion festival and community feel.

shruikan2553

Nope, my family will being going for 11am mass though. Havent gone in years. Im celebrating a bountiful feast from my norse gods instead.

I like how they say that people should leave the church after preventing people from leaving it. Sure you dont have to be involved in it at any events but they still consider you one of them.

admiralofthefleet

not in any evil cults so no