Unitarians apparently don't. There's a service at our church on Christmas morning for the diehards, heh. I won't be there, though. My Methodist parents were regular churchgoers but always skipped church when it fell on Christmas Day.
I always thought of Christmas as split into two parts: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with Christmas Day the secular part and Christmas Eve the sacred part. At our house, on Christmas Eve Dr. Tully Monster and I attend vespers and then come home to have dinner by candlelight and listen to the King's College service of carols and scripture (even though we're both atheists). On Christmas Day we hang out and read books and cook and watch movies and call family members.
There's something weird and Taliban-ish about those complaints--I've never heard them before. If everyone were at church the night before, why do they need to be there again simply because it happens to be Sunday?
If you go to a more liturgical church like Episcopalian (me) or Roman Catholic, a major feast day like Christmas starts at sundown of the day before, just like Jewish holidays, so if you show up for Midnight Mass (or even the early service), you've made your "Christmas duty", whether the next day is Sunday or not.
We have a morning mass without music on Christmas Day, always, but that's because our rector thinks he's really living in medieval England, or Rome around the time of Vatican I.
...to count their money and smite their many enemies
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I always thought of Christmas as split into two parts: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with Christmas Day the secular part and Christmas Eve the sacred part. At our house, on Christmas Eve Dr. Tully Monster and I attend vespers and then come home to have dinner by candlelight and listen to the King's College service of carols and scripture (even though we're both atheists). On Christmas Day we hang out and read books and cook and watch movies and call family members.
There's something weird and Taliban-ish about those complaints--I've never heard them before. If everyone were at church the night before, why do they need to be there again simply because it happens to be Sunday?
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We have a morning mass without music on Christmas Day, always, but that's because our rector thinks he's really living in medieval England, or Rome around the time of Vatican I.
...to count their money and smite their many enemies
**Mithra is the reason for the season**
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BTW, Ann what do you think of selfmade icon?
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BTW, Ann what do you think of my selfmade icon?
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