Who's going to Midnight Mass tonight?

[charlie and algernon]

I'll be playing in my church's bell choir during the mass.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. I'm singing in it

Strictly speaking, it's not a mass, but a Eucharist, since I'm an Episcopalian. :-)

But it starts at 11PM, and I probably won't get home till 1AM. Then I'll have to be back at 9:30AM for the Christmas Day service.

[charlie and algernon]

2. haha, it's all good

I'll be there from 11-1 too, though instead of getting up early for mass, I'll be woken up to open presents at 8am :mad:

[Hardrada]

9. I went to two (count 'em) two Lutheran services today.

One with the Sacrament of Holy Communion! How's that? Of course, we don't believe in Works Righteousness but a little traditional piety lends the day a special tone, don't you think?

[johnfunk]

3. I'm a Secular Humanist -- LOVE Midnight Mass though...

... as long as the choir and organist are good. They are at Holy Trinity in Manhattan (W. 82nd just off Broadway).

The rest of the Christmas Eve celebration is on now -- a party with friends in my media room with back-to-back screenings of the Yin and Yang of my favorite Christmas movies... Bad(der) Santa -- The Unrated Edition and A Christmas Story.

Merry Christmas to all...

[sasquatch]

4. Could you please say a prayer on Carmen Granata's behalf for me?

If you do I'l seriously consider convrting to catholicism.
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[Karenina]

6. Been there, done that.

After an incredibly delicious, traditional meat fondue Xmas eve dinner at the home of my colleague, we, the oboe section (accompanied by my son who would experience his first Catholic Mass), arrived at the centuries old church with less than enough time to put our instruments together.

Mozart Missa in C on the plate. (KV 139, prolly written when he was 16 or something). The appetizer was a Telemann aria that I'd not seen and we both got through on dry reeds. Giggles all around. The Catholics have pageantry down pat.

L-O-N-G service (told my kid to empty his bladder before we left - no such thing as bathrooms in Midieval churches). The sermon was a hoot! The priest seemed to have had a fetish with bodily functions. He started out with the Virgin cleaning up the Baby Jesus and it went downhill from there. Children cleaning up their elderly parents, drunks during Karneval pissing on the church rather than a tree... and btw is your SOUL dreckisch? :wtf: I couldn't believe what I was hearing and thought I'd misunderstood somehow, although I understood every word. The Germans are very stoic an no one else reacted until about 5 minutes in when I COULD NOT BELIEVE what my ears said I was hearing, looked up at my colleagues with big eyes, in total confusion :freak: and simply could no longer control myself. The whole pit erupted in fits of laughter.

[SOteric]

7. Present!

I'll be leaving in an hour or so to meet up with the family and head off to the Cathedral.

:hi:

[ironflange]

8. Well, it's an 11:00 service

We just finished the one that started at 7:00; we're at my mom's place for a couple of hours because it's way closer than going all the way home. Mrs. Ironflange is musical director, I'm in the choir. We sang something called "A Cradle Waits," a simple and very beautiful anthem. I was the only bass tonite. Our daughter sang "O Holy Night" and "His Name Shall be Called Wonderful." Nice service, the crowd was mostly the Xmas and Easter bunch.

[yellowdogintexas]

10. we went to 7 pm service. We had 4 tonight.

The 5 pm "family" service, with our children's and junior choirs leading the music,
the 7 pm with the youth choir leading the music
and the 9 & 11 with the Chancel Choir leading the music. They are all full.


The 7 pm has become a reunion for all the college kids who are my daughter's age that were in choir with her from first grade until they all went away to different places. How wonderful to see them all tonight.

We also have a lot of out of town family visitors and other visitors who may not have Christmas Eve svc in their own churches. Our church is Gothic styled, and is lovely at Christmas time.

[jakefrep]

11. I went...

...Plenty of people there, but not jammed full like the 5:00pm "Family Mass", even with C&E heathens such as myself coming out of the woodwork. As usual, a fine performance by the choir. I rushed home afterward to watch Midnight mass from the Cathedral in Chicago on WGN.