Mass During the Night or?

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Do the (English) liturgical books and materials at your parish refer to it as “Mass During the Night” or do they refer to it as “Midnight Mass” or some other name?
 
SMHW said:
Do the (English) liturgical books and materials at your parish refer to it as “Mass During the Night” or do they refer to it as “Midnight Mass” or some other name?
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The new Roman Missal states “At the Mass during the Night”
 
SMHW said:
Do the (English) liturgical books and materials at your parish refer to it as “Mass During the Night” or do they refer to it as “Midnight Mass” or some other name?
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Well, the handouts call it midnight Mass, because it’s at midnight, but the missal calls it mass during the night, as they all do.
 
SMHW said:
Do the (English) liturgical books and materials at your parish refer to it as “Mass During the Night” or do they refer to it as “Midnight Mass” or some other name?
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the bulletin refers to them as Christmas Eve Masses at 6, 8 10 (Spanish), and Midnight, and one Mass at 9am on Christmas day. Each year the pastor chooses one set of readings that are used at every Mass, this year it was the “dawn” readings.
 
As others have said, the Missal itself says: “Mass during the Night”. At our parish the bulletin, service sheets, etc. called it “Midnight Mass” despite the fact we had it at 11.30 p.m.🤷
 
My diocese’s missals read “Midnight Mass”, and our “Midnight Masses” all started at midnight, so… 😃
 
The new translation of the Missal, both the American edition and the one for the UK, Ireland and Australia, say ‘Mass during the night’. The 2002 Missale Romanum says ‘Ad Missam in nocte’. Midnight seems to be out of favour.
 
jimrob said:
The new translation of the Missal, both the American edition and the one for the UK, Ireland and Australia, say ‘Mass during the night’. The 2002 Missale Romanum says ‘Ad Missam in nocte’. Midnight seems to be out of favour.
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The 1962 missal of the EF, just like the current 2002 OF missal, says “Ad primam Missam / in Nocte” (“At the first Mass / during the Night”). It has never officially been called “Midnight Mass,” nor has there ever been a requirement that it be held at midnight. That’s simply what churches did so that they could hold it as early as possible on Christmas Day. Hence people could get to bed earlier; and there was no Communion fast. “Midnight Mass” has always been an informal name.

Oh, and look that they were calling it in 1577:

http://books.google.com/books?id=lw...jDxatDQC2JB5ac3T8OExA&ci=95,45,778,292&edge=0
 
SMHW said:
Do the (English) liturgical books and materials at your parish refer to it as “Mass During the Night” or do they refer to it as “Midnight Mass” or some other name?
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I do not have my new missal with me. However, at the Church I attended, in his homily, the priest referred to the different readings used for the three classifications of “Christmas” Mass.

When I was a child, there was only one Holy Sacrifice of the Mass said at dawn. This Mass would immediately follow the Midnight Mass (said at Midnight). One Christmas, I walked to Church for the “Dawn” Mass. The quiet peace of that Mass will always be remembered.

Christmas Blessings to all –
both to those who believe and to those who do not believe.

“The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?”
from the poem “Christmas” by George Herbert

The “Twelve Days of Christmas” are meant to be celebrated.
 
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