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| Christmas Mass; What time is it? | |
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| Topic Started: Thursday, 20. December 2007, 23:46 (106 Views) | |
| KatyA | Thursday, 20. December 2007, 23:46 Post #1 |
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Our PP recently commented "Already people are ringing to ask what time is Midnight Mass" He finds it amusing, if a little irritating, because Midnight Mass is just that - at midnight. Other parishes have their first Mass of Christmas at anytime from 5pm Christmas Eve, often still referring to it as"Midnight Mass". Apparently, the Bitter Pill carries an article about British Churches cancelling Midnight Mass for fear of drunks and disorderly behaviour: Catholic News Agency This isn't really "news" - it's been happening for years, but is it right that the "early Midnight Mass" should be so widespread. Where there no drunks or late night revellers in times past? KatyA |
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| Lilo | Friday, 21. December 2007, 03:47 Post #2 |
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For our priest - who looks after three parishes - it's 7:00 pm in St Vincent and 9:00 pm in St Jean de Brebeuf and 11:00 pm in St Lina There you go; they're all "Midnight Mass" . . . sort of. 
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The root problem in a lot of bad catechesis is ultimately not ignorance, but pride. ~ Mark Shea
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| Rose of York | Friday, 21. December 2007, 19:10 Post #3 |
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Lilo what are the distances and travelling time between the three churches? |
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| Lilo | Friday, 21. December 2007, 23:55 Post #4 |
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The priest lives at St Jean de Brebeuf. He goes some 8 miles south to St Vincent, nearly twice that far north to St Lina. The roads are paved to St V; partly paved to St L. The distances are no big deal unless we get walloped by a blizzard. Early this winter there was one weekend when the roads were bad enough for Father to ask a parishioner who lives close to the church & rectory to give him a ride in his 4x4. It was needed! ^_^ |
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| Derekap | Saturday, 22. December 2007, 13:52 Post #5 |
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A parish 2½ miles in one direction will have Holy Mass at 6pm 9pm (Polish) and Midnight on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day at 10.00 and 12.45pm (Polish). On 26 it will hasve Holy Mass at 10.00am and 12.45pm (Polish). The Polish community have been established there since WW2. The parish which we attend is 2½ miles in the opposite direction and will have Holy Mass at 7 and 9pm on Cristmas Eve and at the normal Sunday Time of 10.30am on Christmas Day. From the local papers (in which the first parish is featured) there would appear to be quite a few "Midnight Masses" or "Midnight Eucharists". The reason for the absence of the second parish from the paper is that another edition covers that area. Some people in the second area think that the first is downmarket and in the first some think the other area is somewhat snooty. Only some not all people. |
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