Mass during the Octave of Christmas

[GwenL]

As we know, we celebrate Christmas for eight days. Here is what our parish does on weekdays during the Octave of Christmas: Mass includes incense (at all the possible points), three or four Christmas carols (procession, offertory at least), and daily Mass ends with exposition of the most Blessed Sacrament. We have adoration until early evening, when we have Carols, Blessings, and Lessons followed by Benediction.

Aren’t we blessed?

Does anyone else do anything similar?

We do cancel the early a.m. Mass; the mid-day Mass is the only one during this time.

 

[Nelka]

You are lucky.

 

[Matthew_Holford]

As we know, we celebrate Christmas for eight days. Here is what our parish does on weekdays during the Octave of Christmas: Mass includes incense (at all the possible points), three or four Christmas carols (procession, offertory at least), and daily Mass ends with exposition of the most Blessed Sacrament. We have adoration until early evening, when we have Carols, Blessings, and Lessons followed by Benediction.

Aren’t we blessed?

Does anyone else do anything similar?

We do cancel the early a.m. Mass; the mid-day Mass is the only one during this time.

You are very blessed. Many parishes seem to go into a state of torpor after Christmas Day.

 

[Luminis]

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[Mrs_Sally]

We continue to have our normal 3 daily Masses, which follow the calendar (ie, St Stephen, St John the Beloved, etc.) We do not have a choir or music at daily Mass. Masses have about the same number of people as usual. Some who normally attend may be out of town, but others who are home on vacation are able to attend who normally wouldn’t be.

Any opportunity to attend Mass is a blessing!

 

[turtle18]

You are very lucky! I was just thinking today how sloppy the liturgies are in the archdiocese I live in and was wondering why no one puts any effort into celebrating the Christmas octave. No mattter what, the guts of the liturgy relies on the celebrant and when they are skipping the Gloria, saying the wrong Eucharistic prayer it gets really old…yeah just another weekday Mass.

 

[Matthew_Holford]

You are very lucky! I was just thinking today how sloppy the liturgies are in the archdiocese I live in and was wondering why no one puts any effort into celebrating the Christmas octave. No mattter what, the guts of the liturgy relies on the celebrant and when they are skipping the Gloria, saying the wrong Eucharistic prayer it gets really old…yeah just another weekday Mass.

“… the wrong Eucharistic prayer (sic) …” could you please expand on what you mean?

 

[happymommy]

Our Priest took the week off so no Mass for our church until this Sat night.

 

[Matthew_Holford]

Our Priest took the week off so no Mass for our church until this Sat night.

Priests are, of course, entitled to holidays. One wonders if there aren’t certain times of the year when they shouldn’t be taking them. In someways there’s a danger, in the Church, of Christmas becoming like it is in the secular world: after Christmas Day it’s over.

 

[Mrs_Sally]

Priests are, of course, entitled to holidays. One wonders if there aren’t certain times of the year when they shouldn’t be taking them. In someways there’s a danger, in the Church, of Christmas becoming like it is in the secular world: after Christmas Day it’s over.

Most parish offices and schools are also closed during this time, so it may have made the most sense for everyone. Depending on the usual number of daily Mass goers, the priest may have had a very quiet week this week anyway. If he is back for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God all is well.

The years when Easter is early give the priest very little time between Christmas and the beginning of Lent.

 

[GwenL]

We continue to have our normal 3 daily Masses, which follow the calendar (ie, St Stephen, St John the Beloved, etc.) We do not have a choir or music at daily Mass. Masses have about the same number of people as usual. Some who normally attend may be out of town, but others who are home on vacation are able to attend who normally wouldn’t be.

Any opportunity to attend Mass is a blessing!

We don’t have a choir for daily Mass, either. It’s just the priest leading the congregation in singing. We also follow the calendar, but celebrate these Masses as solemnities within the Octave.

We have a much bigger crowd than normal for these Masses. Usually, we have two daily Masses; during the Octave we have only this one. Plus, many other local churches have no daily Mass during the Octave, so they come to the Cathedral.

We have Conventual Franciscan friars who take the liturgy very seriously and do it right. I’m not aware of any diocesan clergy in our diocese who celebrate the Octave like this. We do the same thing during the Octave of Easter.

We have two friars assigned to the Cathedral, and they alternate taking some time off during the Octave. Plus the parish office and diocesan offices are closed, so they have a minimum of other appointments and meetings.

 

[Mrs_Sally]

If you are at a cathedral, than yes, your Octave Masses should be wonderful things. We are a suburband parish pretty far from our diocesean cathedral and even farther from the big city. My parish is very orthodox and reverant, but we don’t have incense at daily Mass. Getting 2 altar boys when the parish school is out of session is not easy!

 

[GwenL]

If you are at a cathedral, than yes, your Octave Masses should be wonderful things. We are a suburband parish pretty far from our diocesean cathedral and even farther from the big city. My parish is very orthodox and reverant, but we don’t have incense at daily Mass. Getting 2 altar boys when the parish school is out of session is not easy!

We are in a big town/small city (250,000); our diocese is mostly rural. I think our Cathedral seats a total of 400 or so. I’ll be we are further from “the big city” than you are!

We don’t normally have incense at daily Mass. We have incense on Sundays and solemnities; since we are celebrating the days of the Octave as solemnities, we have incense, yay!

We also have a rector who sings at the drop of a hat. He chants most all of the Mass even at 7:00 a.m. daily Mass. Any excuse to add a hymn is good enough for him, even with 35 people in the pews.

 

[Paxvobis]

As we know, we celebrate Christmas for eight days. Here is what our parish does on weekdays during the Octave of Christmas: Mass includes incense (at all the possible points), three or four Christmas carols (procession, offertory at least), and daily Mass ends with exposition of the most Blessed Sacrament. We have adoration until early evening, when we have Carols, Blessings, and Lessons followed by Benediction.

Aren’t we blessed?

Does anyone else do anything similar?

We do cancel the early a.m. Mass; the mid-day Mass is the only one during this time.

I’m jealous!