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Christmas mass

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    #92
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    dalta5billion wrote: »
    The protestants always do a miles better carol service, they pack as many hymns in as they can, and do away with the boring crap.

    are they a pop band?


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    #93
    Amirani
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    I see little reason to do so.


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    #94
    Simonigs1.0
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    I go, although this is out first year in South Dublin and I haven't a clue what my new local church is like.


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    #95
    gozunda
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    From a physicists point of view the mass of Christmas is the weight by volume of wrapping paper times the square root of the number of elves employed making toys in Lapland. This is also known as the present paradox ...


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    #96
    OldNotWIse
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    Be Catholic or any other Xtian faith if you like. But the three little pigs is as believable as the Nativity.

    Good excuse for a few beers and some R&R tho

    Enjoy your mass tho...and the dish ran away with the spoon.


    I think that's why they call it "faith" :)


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    #97
    efb
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    I'll be sleeping


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    #98
    eyescreamcone
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    efb wrote: »
    I'll be sleeping

    He knows when you are sleeping...


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    #99
    Matta Harri
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    I go on Christmas eve at 7 and then we all congregate in the local at 7.45 for drinks and mince pies.

    Love mass at Christmas. The church is beautiful and everyone is in good form. Try and get to the graveyard on Christmas Day then and visit neighbours on the way back for hot whiskeys.


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    #100
    kfallon
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    Haven't gone for years now, won't be going this year either. Each to their own and all that!


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    #101
    Shenshen
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    No, definitely not.

    One of the massive advantages of living abroad is that there's nobody to try and pressure me into going, either.
    I'll happily trade it for watching crappy TV re-runs.


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    #102
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    Be Catholic or any other Xtian faith if you like. But the three little pigs is as believable as the Nativity.

    More bashing and ridiculing other people's beliefs. Any thread mentioning Catholicism (even the simple question in this thread) is almost unreadable in AH with clowns unable to keep their idiotic comments to themselves.


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    #103
    Shenshen
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    Ryleigh Tart Cheesecake wrote: »
    More bashing and ridiculing other people's beliefs. Any thread mentioning religion (even the simple question in this thread) is almost unreadable in AH with clowns unable to keep their idiotic comments to themselves.

    So how's that different from absolutely any thread in AH?
    Be it about food, drunk drivers, gays, medical issues, socialising in all its forms, big corporations or yesterday's telly - any thread in AH will be full of people ridiculing others for not holding the same opinion.

    Yet it's only "bashing" where religion is concerned. Odd.


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    #104
    [Deleted User]
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    Shenshen wrote: »
    So how's that different from absolutely any thread in AH?
    Be it about food, drunk drivers, gays, medical issues, socialising in all its forms, big corporations or yesterday's telly - any thread in AH will be full of people ridiculing others for not holding the same opinion.

    Yet it's only "bashing" where religion is concerned. Odd.

    Except there is a very different threashold on what's deemed acceptable when it comes to catholic bashing and a number of other emotive topics.

    This thread isn't too bad but some of the suff I've read on AH would land people with permabans were they making the same level of comment on something else.


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    #105
    lertsnim
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    I don't go any other week so I wont be near it.


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    #106
    eyescreamcone
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    Ryleigh Tart Cheesecake wrote: »
    More bashing and ridiculing other people's beliefs. Any thread mentioning Catholicism (even the simple question in this thread) is almost unreadable in AH with clowns unable to keep their idiotic comments to themselves.

    If you believe in stupid things then don't be surprised if someone pokes fun at your expense.

    Merry x-box to all.


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    #107
    whisky_galore
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    Most people will probably go 'to keep older family members happy'.


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    #108
    whisky_galore
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    P_1 wrote: »
    Standing in a crowded unheated building in the middle of flu season never struck me as a good idea so I shan't be partaking again this year.

    What's with the seating? Why does it always have to be so damn uncomfortable?


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    #109
    Rubberchikken
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    Dont go. Haven't gone in years
    Feel.no guilt


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    #110
    Ghost Buster
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    I take my kids to Christmas Eve mass every year so I can take them round the back and show them Santys grave.


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    #111
    suicide_circus
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    Be Catholic or any other Xtian faith if you like. But the three little pigs is as believable as the Nativity.

    Good excuse for a few beers and some R&R tho

    Enjoy your mass tho...and the dish ran away with the spoon.
    Fair play to ye

    *slow hand clap*


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    #112
    groovie
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    If you believe in stupid things then don't be surprised if someone pokes fun at your expense.

    Merry x-box to all.

    We have an unbeliever.


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    #113
    Collie D
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    groovie wrote: »
    We have an unbeliever.

    Nah, I'm sure he believes he's being cool and edgy.

    No Xmas Mass for me. Haven't been in years. Xmas Mass in out parish never seemed any different from regular Mass apart from it being longer. Weddings and funerals only for me as a non-believer. Although this year I'll be in Rome for New Year's and plan to head along to the Pope's audience/address/Mass in St. Peter's Square.


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    #114
    groovie
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    I take my daughter to the Christmas Eve mass, it's the only we go to in the year, tbh.
    Afterwards, we drive around town at about 20 mph and wish Merry Christmas to our favourite places, like the Town Park or Penneys, or where we go on Saturdays for coffee/milk and buns, and the banks.
    No one remembers the banks at Christmas. No one.


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    #115
    OldNotWIse
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    Christ mass....mass :(


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    #116
    danrua01
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    How come people who aren't religious, and aren't anything to do with Christianity, posting in here? I'm not religious either but I don't land up to my ma's house shoutin' at her tellin' her she's wrong... who cares!


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    #117
    eyescreamcone
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    groovie wrote: »
    We have an unbeliever.

    Not true!

    I believe in Santa and Rudolf and Frosty the Snowman, the important parts of xmas


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    #118
    groovie
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    Not true!

    I believe in Santa and Rudolf and Frosty the Snowman, the important parts of xmas

    Good enough for me.


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    #119
    Shiraz 4.99
    Site Banned Posts: 824 ✭✭✭Shiraz 4.99


    Just reading through the thread and there's a lot more Catholic defense knocking around than normal.
    We used bash Catholics for breakfast around here (bash, he he he).
    What's going on ?


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    #120
    seamus
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    Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »
    Just reading through the thread and there's a lot more Catholic defense knocking around than normal.
    We used bash Catholics for breakfast around here (bash, he he he).
    What's going on ?
    Lots of people defending their decision to keep their parents in blissful ignorance rather than be an adult and do what they want to do.

    "Ah but shure it's Xmas". If you don't believe it and you don't want to go, be an adult and don't go, FFS.

    Though I do get that for many people it's a social occasion where the whole village is out in their finery, and they all stand around outside chatting for half an hour after mass.

    My wife will be going to midnight mass on Xmas eve, which means I have to stay at home and babysit and not go to the pub. :(


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    #121
    MagicMarker
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    I'd rather stick my head in a deep fat fryer.


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