Posted: 12/23/2011 5:55:49 PM EDT
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How many members here go to Christmas Eve services at the church of your choice?
What time do you usually go? midnight? |
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How many members here go to Christmas Eve services at the church of your choice? What time do you usually go? midnight? 10:00 service Living near the old folks, they have to call it a night early. Thus 10:00 PM is about right, ecspecially when people have real young kids also. |
| 6 p.m. Christmas Eve and b/c Christmas Day falls on Sunday this year, we'll go again Sunday morning. Christmas Eve is not a typical service, mostly singing with a bible passage reading b/t each song, ending with us lighting candles and gathering at the nativity in the front of the church and singing Silent Night. Christmas morning will be our typical church service format. |
| Hadn't thought about that, burning the church down w/ candles! The nativity is outside and we each take a candle and lit is lit by people standing at the door, on our way outside. Many blow out due to the wind. But it's beautiful thing to unite with your church family and visitors in the moonlight around the nativity, with lit candles, singing Silent Night, and honoring our Savior. |
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Hadn't thought about that, burning the church down w/ candles! The nativity is outside and we each take a candle and lit is lit by people standing at the door, on our way outside. Many blow out due to the wind. But it's beautiful thing to unite with your church family and visitors in the moonlight around the nativity, with lit candles, singing Silent Night, and honoring our Savior. It does really help with a sense of community and belonging. |
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When I lived in Denmark, I would ALWAYS go to church on Christmas eve. I couldn't imagine not going. If I ever live in Denmark again, of course I will do so again. Everyone I knew in Denmark did so.
But, living in the U.S., it's obviously harder to find a Church of Denmark to go to.  The closest one would be the Danish sailor's branch of the Church of Denmark in New York City (I think it's in Brooklyn), but that's too far of a drive on Christmas eve, because you gotta get dinner ready after going to the service - and the drive is like 3-4 hours each way.
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When I lived in Denmark, I would ALWAYS go to church on Christmas eve. I couldn't imagine not going. If I ever live in Denmark again, of course I will do so again. Everyone I knew in Denmark did so. But, living in the U.S., it's obviously harder to find a Church of Denmark to go to. The closest one would be the Danish sailor's branch of the Church of Denmark in New York City (I think it's in Brooklyn), but that's too far of a drive on Christmas eve, because you gotta get dinner ready after going to the service - and the drive is like 3-4 hours each way.I hope you don't mind me asking but, what kind of denomination is the Church of Denmark? Such as Methodist, Protestant, Catholic,,etc.? I'm Lutheran. |
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When I lived in Denmark, I would ALWAYS go to church on Christmas eve. I couldn't imagine not going. If I ever live in Denmark again, of course I will do so again. Everyone I knew in Denmark did so. But, living in the U.S., it's obviously harder to find a Church of Denmark to go to. The closest one would be the Danish sailor's branch of the Church of Denmark in New York City (I think it's in Brooklyn), but that's too far of a drive on Christmas eve, because you gotta get dinner ready after going to the service - and the drive is like 3-4 hours each way.I hope you don't mind me asking but, what kind of denomination is the Church of Denmark? Such as Methodist, Protestant, Catholic,,etc.? I'm Lutheran. Evangelical Lutheran. |
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Quoted: We use to get to open two presents after the family got back from Christmas Eve services, had to wqit on the rest later. Anyone else try this practice? It's a tradition in my family. When we were little, my sisters used to wonder why mom and dad didn't get us anything for Christmas (all of them were from Santa, of course!), so my parents started letting us open small, family presents to each other on Christmas Eve. We still do it, and we eat a late dinner/snack at the same time (I always bring the wassail). In recent years it's become more about my little nieces and nephews, so the present-opening orgy on Christmas day is reserved for them. We all go around to everyone's house during the day and then have a big dinner at my sister's. I roast a duck for that. |
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When I lived in Denmark, I would ALWAYS go to church on Christmas eve. I couldn't imagine not going. If I ever live in Denmark again, of course I will do so again. Everyone I knew in Denmark did so. But, living in the U.S., it's obviously harder to find a Church of Denmark to go to. The closest one would be the Danish sailor's branch of the Church of Denmark in New York City (I think it's in Brooklyn), but that's too far of a drive on Christmas eve, because you gotta get dinner ready after going to the service - and the drive is like 3-4 hours each way.I hope you don't mind me asking but, what kind of denomination is the Church of Denmark? Such as Methodist, Protestant, Catholic,,etc.? I'm Lutheran. Evangelical Lutheran. Ah yes... The Goose Handlers. Similar to the Snake Handler Baptists down where I grew up. |