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Why don’t other churches celebrate Christmas? Why, I’m asking is because a friend said they celebrate Christmas on the Sunday before Christmas & not on the DAY of Christmas. I guess the preacher said it all on Sunday! My friend said they will have a childrens program & sing & have preaching & then go to the fellowship hall for FOOD! Everybody brings a dish ! It seems like they bring a dish all the time !!! Christmas Day is for family time together! I will never understand the ‘others’ way of thought!!

I know I should have more compassion for others but I do alot of venting to keep from lashing out at the wrong time!! This way we stay friends. LOL
 
I guess the preacher of that church and the church itself will have to answer that. I didn’t even know there were churches who don’t celebrate Christmas, and I know of several denominations.
 
It has to do with how they view “church”. And also their rejection of most things “Catholic”.

Every mass is a feast - a commemoration event. That’s not how many protestants view church (with a lower cased ‘c’) at all. They’re idea of “church” or a “worship service” does not reconcile with the Catholic notion of Christ’s Mass.
 
In Puritan times it was strictly forbidden to observe Christmas.
 
Randb said:
Why don’t other churches celebrate Christmas? Why, I’m asking is because a friend said they celebrate Christmas on the Sunday before Christmas & not on the DAY of Christmas. I guess the preacher said it all on Sunday! My friend said they will have a childrens program & sing & have preaching & then go to the fellowship hall for FOOD! Everybody brings a dish ! It seems like they bring a dish all the time !!! Christmas Day is for family time together! I will never understand the ‘others’ way of thought!!

I know I should have more compassion for others but I do alot of venting to keep from lashing out at the wrong time!! This way we stay friends. LOL
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As a Cathloic we have a mass on sat, and 4 on sunday. my daughter goes to a ND church and they are have church at 12 am and service on sunday
 
Randb said:
Why don’t other churches celebrate Christmas? Why, I’m asking is because a friend said they celebrate Christmas on the Sunday before Christmas & not on the DAY of Christmas. I guess the preacher said it all on Sunday! My friend said they will have a childrens program & sing & have preaching & then go to the fellowship hall for FOOD! Everybody brings a dish ! It seems like they bring a dish all the time !!! Christmas Day is for family time together! I will never understand the ‘others’ way of thought!!

I know I should have more compassion for others but I do alot of venting to keep from lashing out at the wrong time!! This way we stay friends. LOL
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Your friend sounds as if he or she belongs to a fundamentalist sect of somesort, like a “nondeminational” group (is there such a thing as being ‘nondeminational’?), or somesort of Baptist church.

But many protestant mainline churches do not hold service on Christmas Day, but will hold a service leading up to December 25 (such as a candlelight service at 11:00 pm). I am not exactly sure as to why but it seems on purpose in order to downplay the celebration.

Your friend’s church probably rejects the Dec. 25th date because his or her sect believes that it is a pagan holiday. I think it’s nice that they have so much fellowship and food at their services. Most protestant churches have somesort of coffee hour afterwards. I haven’t been to a Catholic Church that wasn’t cheap enough to have coffee for its own parishoners after Mass!
 
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Your friend sounds as if he or she belongs to a fundamentalist sect of somesort, like a “nondeminational” group (is there such a thing as being ‘nondeminational’?), or somesort of Baptist church.

But many protestant mainline churches do not hold service on Christmas Day, but will hold a service leading up to December 25 (such as a candlelight service at 11:00 pm). I am not exactly sure as to why but it seems on purpose in order to downplay the celebration.

Your friend’s church probably rejects the Dec. 25th date because his or her sect believes that it is a pagan holiday. I think it’s nice that they have so much fellowship and food at their services. Most protestant churches have somesort of coffee hour afterwards. I haven’t been to a Catholic Church that wasn’t cheap enough to have coffee for its own parishoners after Mass!
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I,m Sorry but I,m a Cathloic and have been to over 6 diff CC mass on DEC 25 but have never had coffee after mass. that 6 diff states
 
I’ve read about this happening in a very large non denominational church that has branches overseas also. Apparently the pastor who started it decided he wanted to be with his family on Christmas day, and that must mean he does not consider his flock his extended family. Just guessing on that.
It’s so funny that the very people that say they just love Jesus so much can’t spend an hour or more at church with their community on the day marked as the one he was born. I could never belong to a community with such empty lip service.
 
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I,m Sorry but I,m a Cathloic and have been to over 6 diff CC mass on DEC 25 but have never had coffee after mass. that 6 diff states
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Both parishes I attend have a hospitality Sunday on the first of the month. The one where I sing has the best donuts in town. I’ve been to Catholics churches all over the Midwest and Northeast, and this isn’t odd to me at all. Even back in the 1950s and 1960s, our parish organizations had Communion Sundays once a month. On the first Sunday, the Girl Scouts had theirs, the second the Knights of Columbus, etc. Afterwards there was coffee, juice and various pastries. Then in May each group would have the Communion Breakfast and have a big old meal in the parish hall. Catholics like to eat and socialize as much as everybody else.
 
There are coffee and doughnuts and various bite size things to nibble on once or twice a month (if there is something special going on) at the parish I go to. This may boil down to a money matter for smaller parishes that do not. Or, they simply never did it and don’t have the volunteers to pull it off. You need quite a few of them to make it happen.
 
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