Is it inappropriate to go to a dance club after Easter Vigil?

[yellowbicycle]

I will be attending Easter Vigil this year.
That night is also my friend’s going-away party at a local club. He will be shipping out to Iraq the following Monday.
It just seems weird to me to attend a traditional and holy event like Easter Vigil and then to run right up to the club where, I can promise you, nothing holy or traditional has EVER gone on.
We’re both really busy with our families and work so I suspect this will be my only opportunity to see him before he ships out. I would like to be at his party to wish him well, but I don’t want to give a scandalous appearance.
Opinions?
Thanks in advance!

 

[RainDown]

Personally, I wouldn’t do it, but if you’re not sinning yourself, I think it could be alright.

 

[jwatza]

I would probably work really hard at finding a different time to meet with him and say goodbye.

 

[SMHW]

Clubs don’t really make for the best good bye’s no matter what the day or occasion.

But if that is your chance to see your friend then go. I don’t think the fact that you would be coming from the Easter Vigil is relevant. It’s either OK to go to the club or it isn’t.

 

[Mrs_Mac]

I would probably go but make it an early night and keep my behavior a little more reserved than usual.

 

[Apryl]

I will be attending Easter Vigil this year.
That night is also my friend’s going-away party at a local club. He will be shipping out to Iraq the following Monday.
It just seems weird to me to attend a traditional and holy event like Easter Vigil and then to run right up to the club where, I can promise you, nothing holy or traditional has EVER gone on.
We’re both really busy with our families and work so I suspect this will be my only opportunity to see him before he ships out. I would like to be at his party to wish him well, but I don’t want to give a scandalous appearance.
Opinions?
Thanks in advance!

Is it inappropriate to go to a dance club?

I mean, really? Is it a bad thing to go to a dance club - just GOING and DANCING?

I used to go out to this bar about four nights a week. We would dance. I got great exercise. I even made some friends there.

I don’t drink adult beverages. I didn’t do any dancing with any on in there I couldn’t do with my own brother. I never took any one home with me.

So, what makes a dance club/bar a bad place? Just because a lot of other people may go there for bad things?

I could say the same thing for many health clubs (which I call ‘meat markets’)

I say: go! Enjoy yourself! Don’t feel guilty if you are not doing, or trying to do, anything that is wrong. I personally don’t think that I would go into Confession and say, ‘Bless me Father, for I have sinned: I went into a dance club’… since that ain’t, imo, a sin.

Now, if you are going there to be ‘bad’ and ‘try to be bad’ and be disrespectful to other people and do things you would need to have hidden, you shouldn’t be in there, whether it’s Easter or not.

If it’s wrong, saying good-bye to your friend doesn’t change that.

Just my nickel in the pot!

 

[tyson_anthony]

Look at it this way, attending the Easter Vigil and (presumably) receiving the Eucharist, will strengthen you against whatever temptations you’ll face at the club, lol.

 

[kage_ar]

The Easter Vigil begins a celebration. We are to rejoice and feast!

A going-away-party for someone I might not ever see again, if I were planning it, would be someplace where we could eat and have some drinks and dance and also talk, visit and hug and cry. Screaming over blaring dance music, surrounded by drunks and people dancing like porn stars is not where I would choose to have that sort of a get together.

Christians can go to bars, Christians can have some drinks, Christians can dance, as long as we do it all with moderation and modesty

 

[LilyM]

The Easter Vigil begins a celebration. We are to rejoice and feast!

A going-away-party for someone I might not ever see again, if I were planning it, would be someplace where we could eat and have some drinks and dance and also talk, visit and hug and cry. Screaming over blaring dance music, surrounded by drunks and people dancing like porn stars is not where I would choose to have that sort of a get together.

Christians can go to bars, Christians can have some drinks, Christians can dance, as long as we do it all with moderation and modesty

My view too - Lent will be over and it’s more than appropriate to enjoy ourselves (within bounds, of course) at Easter, after all He is risen!

 

[yellowbicycle]

Thanks for the (name removed by moderator)ut everyone! It’s been very helpful!
All of you make excellent points! I knew I came to the right place for this
And, I agree, a club IS a bad place for such a party, but hey, I’m not on the planning committee.
The club most certainly is the type of place where everyone is drunk and dancing like porn stars (and doing other things like porn stars). It’s a goth club with a dress code, no less. This is where we all used to hang out when we were in our early 20s.
I left the club and the lifestyle a while ago.
Some of my other friends didn’t.
And they’re the ones doing the planning. So there you have it.
The dress code had me a little worried. I’m not about to tramp it up, well, ever, but most certainly not after Mass!
I’ll probably wear a nice dress (weather dependent) to Easter Vigil. I would certainly be turned away at the door of the club in such a modest ensemble. Not only that, but the club is a pit of grossness, and my Sunday best really IS my Sunday best, and I don’t want to come home with it reeking of smoke and booze. BLECH!
But, I can change in the car into something more club appropriate but still not trampy. And I’m betting since it’s my friend’s going away party, they’ll make some exceptions anyway and let me in even if I’m dressed like a ‘normie’.
My friend’s been emailing me saying ‘I know it’s the day before Easter, but it would REALLY mean alot to me if you could be there’. I can’t say no to a request like that! . God forbid, if anything happened to my friend in Iraq, and I missed my last opportunity to see him, well, I think that would be a regret I could not live with.
i think my mind is made up! I’m going, right after Easter Vigil, and not for a very long time. I should be able to be home and in bed by 11, so I can still get up at 6 the next morning with the kiddos.
Gotta take the kids to the easter egg hunt, get brunch ready, get the house ready. Man, all Jesus had to do on Easter Sunday was rise from the dead! I’ve got WAY more to do!