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I,am glad too hear what you said, I Hope that many more people will tell me what makes them happy at Christmas.
 
Midnight Mass.
Extra time with family.
Christmas lights.
The songs.
The cookies.
 
What I really enjoyed about Christmas were the kids. That was the heart of if for me. After they grew up I enjoyed the grandkids. There is something about a child that just does something.

And I have always enjoyed receiving Jesus at the Christmas Mass. It is something very special and has always moved me.
 
At Christmas I feel most connected with family members who have passed away - because of years of happy memories of the holidays. Wistful nostalgia.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
At Christmas I feel most connected with family members who have passed away - because of years of happy memories of the holidays. Wistful nostalgia.
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Yes, this is true,I too think off my mother who passed away when I was 16 yrs old,she died two day,s after my Birthday ,so Always,s will never forget Christmas ,for I will always remember what my mother said, first we go too church, then when you come home you can open the gift,s you got.
 
I picked my daughter up at the airport last night as she returns home from college. She is a faith-filled young lady and when she is home there is more laughter in our house.
 
The_Apostolate said:
What make you feel happy about Christmas?.
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Mostly being with family. And being able to please others by cooking for or giving small gifts to a few friends and family.

All this is a reflection of the higher reason for celebrating Christmas - the Incarnation and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ. He became a part of the human family so that we could become part of the divine family. The joy I feel being with family is a reflection of our joy in being part of God’s family. Just so with the act of giving to our human family, we experience happieness when we act to please God, either directly or through the Body of Christ here on earth.

I also greatly enjoy the rehersals for and the singing at the Christmas Masses (as usual, I’m singing at 3 Masses this Christmas Eve/Day).

There’s also the food, especially my sister’s cooking for Christmas Day. Our special celbrations involving earthly meals are but a foretaste of the Heavenly Banquet described in Revelation.
 
How can I count the ways.
I just love Christmas.
For me and my husband, since we are in a several choirs between us, Christmas is mostly about singing.
We don’t do a lot of decorating but I love to see what other people do. I love looking at wildly decorated homes (saves us the bother and money of doing it ourselves)
I love school Christmas programs of children (especially those of my grandkids)
Most of all I love Christmas Eve Mass and watching a child place the Baby Jesus in the manger.
This Christmas we will spend time with family.

Merry Christmas.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
At Christmas I feel most connected with family members who have passed away - because of years of happy memories of the holidays. Wistful nostalgia.
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Thank you for reminding me! Both Mama and Daddy died before my sister and I were thirty. We had always had magical Christmases and tried to provide the same for our two daughters who are now 31 and 29. The time between having kids and grandkids is like being in the twilight zone- I miss the excitement and joy of little ones. This year I have been sending my daughter and fiancé ornaments and items to help them start their own traditions and I’ve had a great time. My Jesuit parish has had wonderful Advent services and lo and behold, the music is actually singable!🙂
Merry Christmas and ✌️ to all!
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
At Christmas I feel most connected with family members who have passed away - because of years of happy memories of the holidays. Wistful nostalgia.
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This^

Seems like I can include some pets of mine which strangely have died just before Christmas.
 
With the kids all grown and out on their own (and so scattered across the country), We’ll just spend a very quiet Christmas. I always look forward to Midnight Mass at our FSSP parish. Its a long drive home afterward but worth it. We try to keep things Christ centered. In fact our tree won’t go up until the day of Christmas eve. Going to go out to a local tree farm today and bring it home.

Right now we are still celebrating Advent so things are still penitential with only some signs that Christmas is close.

Wife is baking up a storm and making tons of fudge. Packages have been mailed out to all the 7 kids/19 grandkids/ 2 great grandkids. So this last week is waiting in anticipation of the birth of Christ. Even my 80 pound black Lab is quietly waiting. He knows something is happening. 😉

When I was younger I looked forward to the chance of snow; but those days are long passed. The old bones don’t enjoy it anymore, plus too much snow will cancel Midnight Mass as the drive is too far.
 
Midnight mass is my absolute favorite mass of the whole year. There is so much peace and joy in celebrating the first mass of Christmas day. The music, the colors, the silence. It’s all magnificent!

Setting up the nativity set is another favorite. The St. Joseph in our set isn’t quite flat on his feet, so he tends to move around. Often we come home and he’s facing a completely different direction than when we left earlier. We have a good laugh about Joseph dancing around the nativity.

On a more secular note, I LOVE to pick out thoughtful gifts and then wrap them with care. Wrapping presents is so much fun. It completes the Christmas tree to have pretty packages wrapped up underneath it.

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Really everything everyone else has listed all lend to Christmas happiness, but probably the most profound thing, and it happens every year, happens at Christmas Eve Mass. Invariably, worldly things, often stupid petty things, get me pretty snarly by the time Christmas Eve rolls around, but once I kneel in the pew, and see the beautifully lit church, see the crèche, gaze upon the crucifix behind the altar, and hear those first strains of the songs, the anxiety and anger simply vanish.
 
corsair said:
With the kids all grown and out on their own (and so scattered across the country), We’ll just spend a very quiet Christmas. I always look forward to Midnight Mass at our FSSP parish. Its a long drive home afterward but worth it. We try to keep things Christ centered. In fact our tree won’t go up until the day of Christmas eve. Going to go out to a local tree farm today and bring it home.

Right now we are still celebrating Advent so things are still penitential with only some signs that Christmas is close.

Wife is baking up a storm and making tons of fudge. Packages have been mailed out to all the 7 kids/19 grandkids/ 2 great grandkids. So this last week is waiting in anticipation of the birth of Christ. Even my 80 pound black Lab is quietly waiting. He knows something is happening. 😉

When I was younger I looked forward to the chance of snow; but those days are long passed. The old bones don’t enjoy it anymore, plus too much snow will cancel Midnight Mass as the drive is too far.
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I will once again be along on Christmas day, for my wife stop going too church again.
 
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