Midnight mass what church??
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Me and the family are planning on going to Midnight mass Christmas eve and we have a few churches near us and wanted to know what the best would be to go to?
We dont want anything heavy but we have a Roman catholic doing one tomorrow night and wanted to know if anyone has been to one and as we dont go to church any other time of the year would we be welcomed?
Also the same for Christmas day service please.
We dont want anything heavy but we have a Roman catholic doing one tomorrow night and wanted to know if anyone has been to one and as we dont go to church any other time of the year would we be welcomed?
Also the same for Christmas day service please.
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The Anglican version isn't any better. Go for a Lutheran church if you feel the need to be religious at Christmas time
Their services literally took hours as well. The sermon could be an hour or two, and when Bach was at Leipzig, they would perform usually two cantatas either side of the sermon and most of those are around 20 minutes.
Not to mention that there are liturgically only very subtle differences between Eucharist (well, probably Common Worship order I) and the Catholic Mass and the Lutheran service is very similar. Eucharist from the Book of Common Prayer is subtly different, the most notable is that the Gloria in excelsis - omitted during the periods of penance in Advent and Lent - comes at the *end* of the service and not (as in CWI and the Mass) immediately following the Kyrie eleison, near the start of the service.
If you just want somewhere for your kids to sing some carols then I don't suppose where you actually go matters much...
See my best friend do his thang at the altar. His first year as a curate
A prayer to St Glenfarclas methinks.
I'll sing off that hymn sheet.
The Midnight Mass at a RC church, usually lasts just over an hour.
Years ago I used to go to a lovely village one where I lived which had carols and was very light. Then the vicar changed to a more 'high' church one. I wasn't very popular when I dragged my family along to a very serious, dreary service in the middle of the night!