Christmas Mass - Your Favorite One

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I’m not sure how to create a poll on this page (I’ll number the answer choices so that it looks like a poll), but I’m just wondering.

When you go to Mass for Christmas, which Mass do you usually go to?
  1. A Christmas Vigil Mass in the afternoon/early evening
  2. A Christmas Vigil Mass later on in the evening (but before Midnight)
  3. A Midnight Mass (A Christmas Mass that actually begins at Midnight)
  4. A Mass on Christmas Day (after the Midnight Mass)
 
For the record, my vote goes to #3, especially if and when they chant the Proclamation of the Birth, right before the Mass begins.
 
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I’d prefer a true midnight Mass, but our parish doesn’t have one. I think theirs is 10PM.
 
Early afternoon because that is the only one when the bus still runs.
 
Believe it or not, I’ve never actually attended a Midnight Mass on Christmas morning. I can say I’ve had more pleasant experiences at masses on Christmas eve in the night but before midnight. I do like Christmas Day masses too.
 
The only midnight mass I’ve attended was in Spanish, so I missed the…oomph. otherwise I’ve attended the vigil and day and love them both!
 
I’m not too fond of 1 and 4, especially due to the suffocating number of people who attend these Masses (Many of which consist of the PACE (Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Christmas, and Easter) Catholics (You know, those people who only go to Mass 2-4 times a year, when not attending a wedding Mass or a funeral Mass)). Not that this doesn’t happen with the other Christmas Masses, since it can, but it seems that these are the more highly-attended Christmas Masses.
 
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#3, true Midnight Mass, because I have never been to an actual Midnight Mass and I don’t have family to worry about.
 
We have no choice. Our priest serves two parishes 30 miles apart. On year we get Christmas Eve and they get Christmas morning. The next year it is reversed.
 
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Being single and having no children makes the Midnight Mass even more enjoyable, since you don’t have to worry about anyone else, so I agree with you.
 
#3 Mass that starts at Midnight. But a Mass that starts at 11:00 and ends at midnight would be good too.
 
If I’m in my own parish it’s the Mass at 9:30 or 10:00 p.m. The Mass celebrated is the “Mass During the Night” and not the Vigil of Christmas.

The other options in my parish would be the one at 6:30 or 7:00 p.m. Christmas Eve (Mass During the Night chosen for this one also) that most families with kids attend and which I would only go to if I had absolutely no other choice, and the Christmas Day Mass at 10:00 a.m.

If we’re with our daughter and her family for Christmas, it’s Midnight Mass, at least if our flight has landed in time.
 
Christmas morning because the readings are from John, “In the beginning was the Word … “

But I do cherish a memory of going to midnight mass, walking the path between piles of new fallen snow where the snowflakes sparkled like diamonds, feeling elated, as if all the riches of the world lay at my feet.
 
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I love the idea of Midnight Mass but struggle not to fall asleep so I usually go Christmas morning.
 
The 9pm Mass and then Christmas day 11am. I am in the sacristy so I sometimes wonder why I should go home between the Masses. People have to be able to catch the public transportation home so the Mass has to end before last bus or train.
 
Either Midnight Mass, if it’s at actual midnight (I like going to Mass in the middle of the night) or a Mass on Christmas Morning.

I note that for many years I have not had family celebrations to plan around, and we’ve never been traveling on Christmas Day to see family (the journey would be too long to arrive in time to enjoy the day so we always had to arrive by Christmas Eve at the earliest). Going to Mass is kind of my big event of the day rather than going to a family dinner or spending family time opening presents. I further note that I try to go to Mass every day so I might go to the Christmas Eve vigil as well in order to attend a Mass on Dec 24 and then another on Dec 25.
 
#1…we have children and at least 2 of them are normally in the Nativity pageant. So we go to the family Christmas Vigil mass, it’s usually in the early evening.
 
hcruz402 said:
I’m not sure how to create a poll on this page (I’ll number the answer choices so that it looks like a poll), but I’m just wondering.

When you go to Mass for Christmas, which Mass do you usually go to?
  1. A Christmas Vigil Mass in the afternoon/early evening
  2. A Christmas Vigil Mass later on in the evening (but before Midnight)
  3. A Midnight Mass (A Christmas Mass that actually begins at Midnight)
  4. A Mass on Christmas Day (after the Midnight Mass)
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I go to ALL of them. 😉

My favorite (by far) is the Midnight Mass. Yes, I did say Midnight Mass, not 11:00 Mass or 10:00 Mass, Midnight Mass).
 
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