https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 04 May 2026 13:16:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464734 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:58:09 +0000 jedeve 464734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: @Mrs. Jacks: I still try to stand up during the gospel. I started to and then they decided to process around the whole church. I sat back down and waited, haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464658 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 09:28:40 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 464658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: I think you get a pass on standing! Merry Christmas! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464601 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:18:29 +0000 jedeve 464601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: no, though I think my husband has been there for Easter vigil. </p> <p>I survived! We went to our regular parish, not the cathedral. I only nodded off during the first reading. I have kind of given up on standing though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464421 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:14:57 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 464421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HLK208: weird, right?<br /> @MediaNaranja: Midnight mass or the children's production?@jedeve: Have you been to the Utah one? I haven't been to yours yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464399 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:44:36 +0000 MediaNaranja 464399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: Oh man, I went to that once. It is quite the production!!</p> <p>I am visiting my parents right now and they live in a small town with an even tinier catholic church and the only option is 11:15am on Christmas morning, so that's what we'll do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464389 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:13:51 +0000 SAHM0811 464389@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HLK208: omg, we went to an Easter vigil once (pre-kids)... I didn't know then that they are usually 3 hours long! so wow... yours was even longer! </p> <p>We might attempt an early Midnight Mass next year when the girls are 5 and 2 yo. They are night owls anyway, so if it starts at 9pm or so, it shouldn't be too bad. But yeah, it's been a while since we've went! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464268 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:51:06 +0000 jedeve 464268@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: we have the state cathedral too, but we are in Montana so a little different, hahaha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464257 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:38:49 +0000 twinmama 464257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Could you take a long nap before the midnight mass? I played music at all 4 of our Christmas services last year when I was pg. I had to sit a lot but was ok. Keep in mind if its crowded you might get overheated! But it would be a nice service to go to since you may not have the opportunity for a few years or more. </p> <p>I love the candlelight services, but we are going to a mid afternoon jazz service today. I think it will be nice and mellow and easier with two kids in tow! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464246 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:25:10 +0000 Bao 464246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, we are staying home. LO goes to bed at 7:30 and it's too much to wake her up and bring her out, she would be a monster! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464230 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:10:01 +0000 HLK208 464230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: tickets?! Whoa.</p> <p>We're going to 9pm but I'm still kind of worried bringing the LO's. We went to a 7pm Easter vigil at a cathedral and we were there until 1 am! I was 35 weeks pregnant then. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464217 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:50:59 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 464217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>WE're going to children's mass today at 4, but at our parish you can't even get tickets to midnight mass unless you get them before Dec. 12th. I guess that's because my parish is the State Cathedral? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464211 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:48:40 +0000 Grace 464211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's our plan tonight, but I've been so tired lately, I don't know if I'll make it. The backup is to go Christmas Day, but like you, I've never done that. Would feel so strange not to go to mass on Christmas Eve! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464104 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:23:52 +0000 matador84 464104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I loveeee midnight mass but we are out of town this year! If I were at home we would definitely go, DS would probably sleep through it. Carols start at 1130, mass at 12. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464101 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:18:44 +0000 SAHM0811 464101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If I didn't have young kids, I'd go to Midnight Mass! I miss that option. </p> <p>Christmas morning is usually really, really crowded...<br /> and it's tough to get all four of us out of the house, all dressed up, and ON time in the mornings, let alone a holiday morning after they open presents... Plus we have two families to visit on Christmas Day too, so it really is a busy day for us. But that's our situation! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/midnight-mass#post-464076 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:03:40 +0000 jedeve 464076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Anyone going to midnight mass tonight? I'm 37 weeks and don't know if I can make it out that late (even if ours starts at 10) but I don't know when I would be able to go again! The other option is 9am tomorrow. I've never gone on Christmas Day! </p>