Comments on: Christmas Eve VS No church on Sunday

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think we should be having our most important gospel learning and spiritual experiences at home. I don’t think holding an extra sacrament meeting not on the Sabbath would improve our celebration of Christ’s coming.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’d be up for a Mormons Mass, but it would depend on who was speaking.

By: Susan M

Susan M — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Our ward is meeting for a combined SM with the other wards that share our building. I feel bad for whoever has to give a talk on Christmas Day, in front of three wards.

By: Mary Siever

Mary Siever — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kim, you need to CLARIFY why you would be up for a Mormon Mass….come on now, ‘fess up.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’d love to give a talk in front of three wards. The bigger, the better.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

‘Cause then we can come home and eat tonnes of food like we used to do after Catholic midnight mass.

By: Mary Siever

Mary Siever — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

:) Yep that's why

ltbugaf

I agree, we don't need to attend Church on Christmas. But I do enjoy that we get to this year.

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ltbugaf you obviously have never spent Christmas at our house if you could think that the most important gospel learning and spiritual experiences happen in our home on that day hehehehhee. That’s WHY I like to go to church on Christmas Day.. .to be able to worship in peace and quiet. And to be able to focus on something other then who is going to clean up that mess that I left behind!!!

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For me it’s sort of divided in two. We try to do most of the sacred stuff on Christmas Eve, and all the Santa stuff on Christmas day. Seems like a reasonable system. I’ve had to compromise with my wife, though, who is used to opening one present on Christmas Eve. Pure heresy in my family, but what can you do?

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ltbutgaf we had to compromise in our family too.. our first Christmas together was 3 months after we had joined the church and I was equally shocked that they not only did not have midnight mass but that they did not have church the next day either!!

I almost left the church at that time. Then on the afternoon of Christmas Eve I started getting dinner ready with the turkey etc and hubby kept asking if it wasn't a little too early and I said no we need it for dinner and what is your problem?? Finally he clues in and asks what time exactly are we planning on eating Christmas dinner and I nonchalantly say after we open presents at midnight.

Speaking to a man who not only did NOT open presents in the middle of the night, nor wake up children in the middle of the night nor eat a big turkey dinner in the middle of the night with your entire family, it was ironic how he said we are NOT doing that and my family is NOT going to be eating at 12 midnight but at 12 NOON the next day and the children are NOT going to be opening up the gifts till morning!!

It took a slammed bedroom door and about an hour of tears before he called his family and told them he didn't care what they did but they better be there by midnight to open presents and to have Christmas dinner.

After the celebrations were done that year we sat down and compromised. He wanted us to join the church and I had to give up midnight mass and going to church on Christmas Day he would have to give up sleeping at midnight. The 2nd Christmas we shared we woke the kids up at midnight and opened presents. Stockings are opened in the morning (Santa comes on his returned trip back to the North Pole and fills stockings for the children that go back to bed like good kids)and we have our big dinner around noon or so.

This year we get to add going to church on Christmas Day and I for one can not wait :) And I am a strong believer of compromise. If someone wants to do something other then I want I just keep giving them more information until they see it my way. :-P