What services is your parish offering for Christmas?

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Ours is doing midnight Mass and 9.30am. That’s it. :-/
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7pm Mass on the 24th, midnight Mass, 8am, 10am, 4pm Spanish Mass. There was a Christmas party after the 7pm, 10am and 4pm Masses. On the 23rd, we had the Christmas Oratorio performed by the children from the Catholic kindergarten and a choir from a Catholic girls’ secondary school. At the 7pm Mass 8 people were baptised and received into the church. Not bad considering how few Catholics there are in this area.

Gearoidin
 
4:00pm, 6:00pm, and 9:00pm on Christmas Eve

Midnight Mass (at Midnight)

9:00am and 11:00am on Christmas Day

After Midnight Mass our pastor told us there were approximately 1900 people at our 4:00pm Mass. The others so far have ranged from 500 people to a little less than 900 people.

From previous experience the 9:00am Mass will probably have about 700 people and the 11:00am Mass will be a bit more crowded. I’ll be at the 11:00 so I guess I’ll find out.
 
We had services at 4:00 (children’s), 7:00 and 10:00 (midnight). Today there will be services at 8:00, 10:00 and noon.

I attended 10:00 (midnight), and was thinking of going back today (perhaps at 10:00) to see if it might, perhaps, be a service at which I feel more “connected”. I was surrounded by “chatterers” last night…kind of tough to feel the spirituality of it all.

One interesting thing is that both of our priests will be celebrating all six of the masses…and our choir will be at all six.
 
Christmas Eve 5,7 &Midnight
Christmas 8,9:30 & 11:15

I went to the 5 vigil Mass - Church seats about 1100 - I estimate about 1500 were there.

Trick
 
Normally we have 4:30 PM on Saturday, and 8 AM 10 AM, and 12 noon on Sunday. For Christmas, we had 4:30 PM on Saturday, and Midnight and 9 AM on Sunday.

I went to 4:30 and it was SRO. Glad I got there early.

PF
 
Same as every Sunday. 4 and 6 pm on Saturday; 8:30 and 10:30 on Sunday.

Our pastor is also pastor at another church, but we “got him” for Christmas this year, even though it was his weekend to be at the other church. There is another priest (a ‘sacremental minister’) who helps him out with daily and weekend Masses.

We went to the 4 pm Mass, which is usually predominantly senior citizens. There were quite a few families there last night, and it was SRO by the time things got started. They added a row of folding chairs in the aisle.
 
4:30, 6:00 and Midnight for Christmas Eve, and 8am, 10am and 12:15 for Christmas Day. 🙂
 
5pm. Christmas eve English vigil /family mass with Children re-enacting the gospel, 7pm, Spanish vigil, 10pm. English, Midnight Polish Mass.

Christmas Day 6;30am. English, 7:30a, Polish, 9am. English; 10;30a Polish, and finally 12:15p English
 
Since I currently attend the Mission Parish, we had 7 p.m. vigil Christmas Eve and 11 a.m. Christmas day - both were full but not SRO as I am quessing that many went to our Mother Church for one of their many Masses. Let me see if I can remember all of those Masses.

Christmas Eve - 4 p.m. 6 or 7 p.m. Midnight

Christmas Day 7 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. (no 6 p.m. Mass)

I am also going to guess that all the Christmas Eve Masses were SRO with many visiting family members, Christmas & Easter only Catholics and some Protestants who really like the pageantry of Midnight Mass (-:.

It is so sad for me because I usually forget that both Christmas and Easter have many more attending than usual and I just leave my house at the usual time to get there with about 5-10 mins. to spare 😃 . When with my children we have to sit separately (yes, we still manage to get there in time to get a seat) and one year when they were small the usher wanted to sit me separate from my then 11 yo and 5 yo - all of us in separate places relatively far from each other - what were they thinking?? I stood with them instead!

Brenda V.
 
We are a good sized “small town” parish linked with a smaller “small town” parish in the next small town over.

We had a 4:30 and a 7:30 at our parish on Christmas Eve with a 6:00 at the linked parish. This morning we had an 8:45 at the linked parish and 10:00 at our parish.

By the end of the 10:00 this morning, our poor priest was dragging. I think he’s glad that our seminarian was home to help him out.
 
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