How many of you are going to a religious service this holiday?

[Condem]

Just curious.

[UrbScotty]

1. Midnight Mass!

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Too late. I already got snowed out of my Yule celebration.

[annabanana]

3. Heading off for a Christmas Eve service in about two hours...

Nice little Episcopal church here in town does a nice service..

[kestrel91316]

4. Candlelight services this evening at the Methodist church around the corner.

Not visiting family in WI this year, so I thought I would go. Never been to that church before, but I can walk so it's my first choice.

I'm having dinner by meself tomorrow and I'm not lonely or sad, amazingly enough. I told a friend to come for dinner (coq au vin) if they closed the 14 and she couldn't get to HER family gathering.

[lynne]

5. Two services tonight. I participate in one - my son in the other.

When I get home from church it will be Christmas morning - makes it very special.

[VAliberal]

6. I'm heading off in 15 minutes to officiate two services

in my rural Presbyterian parish.

Merry Christmas!

Peace on earth!

Goodwill to all people!

[libnnc]

7. BIL is a Lutheran pastor

and his church is doing a Moravian Love Feast service for the first time.

...hope no one spills the trays of sweet coffee. :scared:

[norepubsin08]

9. that sounds cool

in Sept of 2007 I sang at a Moravian Church in Winston-Salem NC it was a wonderful congregation!!!! Bishop Lane Sapp was a very warm and welcoming Pastor.

[norepubsin08]

8. I planned two services

one a children's service and the other a candlelight service plus decorated the church yesterday-my daughter is playing the viola for the children's service...I am soloing the prphecy of Isaiah in the adult service and my wife has a speaking part in the recitation of the O Antiphons

[smiley]

10. if you consider going to a bar a religious service

then I am

[hedgehog]

11. Midnight Mass

at 10PM, of course!

I had to warn the kids a while back to take it easy sampling the egg nog and Bailey's and special beer. They all brought a bottle to share, and all those little sips can add up!

Being lit for Midnight Mass is an old tradition better remembered than honored!

[Peacetrain]

12. Candlelight services at 11:00 PM

Have a good one tonight everyone :hi: you too Condem

edit: for spelling

[Condem]

15. Merry Christmas , peace.

[connecticut yankee]

13. Candlelight Service

at the Unitarian Church.

It's a beautiful tradition,and I wouldn't miss it for anything.

Peace and love to you all.

[Condem]

14. Thank you for responding, everybody!

Merry Christmas to you all. Enjoy your services!

[H2O Man]

16. lodge

[TrogL]

17. I'm the organist, it'd probably be a good idea if I showed up

[goclark]

18. Methodist Church this Sunday

Looking forward to this tradition for my family.

[jtrockville]

19. * sings * Sittin' downtown in a railway station...

No religious service for me.

I'm waiting in Philadelphia for Amtrak to change the engine on our train. I hope I still make my connection out of New York Penn.

[Condem]

20. Godspeed, jtrock. No pun intended.

Did that trip many a time.

[michaz]

21. Heading to Mass at 9:00pm. n/t

[Retired AF Dem]

22. Why do you want to know?

tin foil hat time.

[Condem]

25. Hey Retired

take a fucking pill. Did you read the message? Pure curiosity. Nothing else. Go read about 9/11 or something.

[LWolf]

23. I have never, in my 48 years, attended a religious service

on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

I did spend 3rd and 4th grade at a Lutheran school, because they had after school child care for my single working mom. Back in the 60s.

While there, I played a "wiseman" for the school Christmas play. That's the closest I've gotten.

In 9th grade, I babysat for neighbors who went to midnight mass.

Why?

[Condem]

27. You're choice, LWolf

Are you feeling a little guilty to ask Why?

[LWolf]

33. No.

:wtf:

Why would I feel guilty? I asked why you want to know if anyone attends a religious service.

Curiosity is not guilt.

Truthfully, I'm wondering why anyone would ask, or care, unless they were gearing up to proselytize, of course.

The season, and the holiday, is not about attending religious services. At least, it's not for me. And that's all that really counts, when it comes to how I choose to spend it.

I'm spending today with family. We're enjoying each other's company. I came home mid-day to see if the pipes were thawed enough to get me some water, and am heading back.

Hope your holiday, religious or no, is as nice as mine.

[Condem]

35. Enjoy LWolf.

[Sanctified]

24. We would but we are snowed in so I am doing the Service at my house tonight. n/t

[Condem]

26. Good luck, MiltonF

[ChazII]

28. Candlight service at 8 p.m. n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

29. I wasn't feeling well enough - and just wanted to stay at home with

the family.

I missed it, though...

[Undercurrent]

30. I'm snowed in, and have been for nearly a week.

BUT I have lights, tons of stored food. Yeah! I'll have a quiet Christmas with just me and my 88 year old dad who lives next door.

When I was a little girl we always went to services in the church my grandfather built. That old church was very special to me, and Christmas services, and Easter sunrise services were wonderful.

[SoxFan]

31. 8:30 AM Mass at the cathedral

Thankfully, the celebrant is Father Joe, the wonderful rector, and not the somewhat aloof bishop.

[Condem]

32. Grew up in a heavy Irish Catholic family

Midnight Mass was a must. Haven't gone in 20 years. I'll be honest. I do miss it. Merry Christmas.

[Taverner]

34. I do plan on getting inebriated

That's about as close to delusion as I plan to get

[Condem]

36. Merry Christmas, Tavener

Heading for my first Old Style in about 30 minutes.

[Morning Dew]

37. if whistling "Oh Holy Night", playing "Silent Night" on the concertina and . . .

reading Luke 2:1-20 counts, I had my own private service, as per usual. I haven't attended a Christmas service since 1974.

In the interim, I've darkened the door of a church for 3 weddings and one baptism. I joke that I'm one of seven known people to be booted from the Lutheran Church.