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Alan Medic

Alan Medic

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Is midnight mass an obligation or a religious experience? Being from a Catholic family, Christmas eve in my teens involved going to the pub, pretending you went to midnight mass (to avoid having to go the following day), and instead going to the local posties flat to get stoned with the big boys. St.John's by the way was a place they sent the alcoholics to, to recover.
JohnL

JohnL

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Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Is midnight mass an obligation or a religious

> experience? Being from a Catholic family,

> Christmas eve in my teens involved going to the

> pub, pretending you went to midnight mass (to

> avoid having to go the following day), and instead

> going to the local posties flat to get stoned with

> the big boys. St.John's by the way was a place

> they sent the alcoholics to, to recover.


They stopped Midnight Mass in my local village in Wales

as everyone turned up drunk (thought ours was CoE though).


Moved it to earlier in the day.

Dulwich Born And Bred

Dulwich Born And Bred

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I have always wanted to go to midnight mass just so that I can say I have been but once I start on the wine at home , mince pies , tin of celebrations , the Bailey's , the Christmas tree chocolate whilst singing 'Last Christmas' I usually crash out fast asleep around 11pm.



Is there a big turn out at Midnight Masses?

Otta

Otta

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Yeah there are usually a fair few people.


I've not been for years though.


I remember years ago agreeing to play the descant to Hark the Herald on the trumpet, only to meet my sister first and get quite merry. It was a rousing descant, if not entirely full of the right notes.

DulwichFox

DulwichFox

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Otta Wrote:

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> Yeah there are usually a fair few people.

>

> I've not been for years though.

>

> I remember years ago agreeing to play the descant

> to Hark the Herald on the trumpet, only to meet my

> sister first and get quite merry. It was a rousing

> descant, if not entirely full of the right notes.


I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order..


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Sue

Sue

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Otta Wrote:

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>

> I remember years ago agreeing to play the descant

> to Hark the Herald on the trumpet, only to meet my

> sister first and get quite merry. It was a rousing

> descant, if not entirely full of the right notes.


:)) :)) :))

uncleglen

uncleglen

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I went to a Catholic Midnight mass years ago. I was a sober teenager and the church was packed with drunks and prams. On leaving there was a set of false teeth on the floor (I bet his/her Xmas lunch was tricky). I was going to go to the old St. Barnabas one some years later and mentioned this to someone who launched into a massive tirade about people who never go to church during the year and then take all the spaces on Christmas Eve....so I did not go- went to the Clockhouse instead, (before Tessa and her ridiculous music license stopped the carols there) and have been using the pubs ever since.
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