To: virgil
Christmas is a Holy Day of Obligation. You are required to go to Mass on that dayDoes "midnight mass" fulfill the requirement?
69 posted on
12/27/2013 4:50:59 PM PST by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: chajin
Does "midnight mass" fulfill the requirement?
Certainly. I believe attending a Christmas Mass said earlier on Christmas Eve would also fulfill the obligation.
Many Protestant sects have Christmas and Easter services, and Southern congregations attend fairly heavily on those occasions. The overflow crowds at the churches for Christmas and Easter services is usually referred to by the preachers/pastors as the influx of "the C & E crowd," i.e., the mysterious appearance of church members who only bother to show up on Christmas and Easter, and at no other time.
It appears that many nominal members of Protestant congregations only feel obligated to attend services twice a year, at least in the South. ;-)
75 posted on
12/27/2013 5:19:40 PM PST by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: chajin
Does "midnight mass" fulfill the requirement?Yes, it does.
97 posted on
12/27/2013 8:02:20 PM PST by
virgil
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