Nativity of Our Lord

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Nativity of Our Lord

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Will this be on the 25th December this year? Or, in keeping with other feasts of Our Lord, will it move to the nearest sunday (23 Dec)? :lol:
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Depends whether you are following the calendar for the ordinary or extraordinary rite! :lol:

Seriously, this is the one feast of Our Lord which isn't moved. The secular world also celebrates and so there isn't the pressure of having to 'fit Mass in' around work. Almost all of us are on holiday anyway- as used to be the case for the other holy days.

There is of course the pressure of fitting it in around visiting great aunt Nellie, having to have a glass of sherry with uncle Bert etc, but that's a different story. As we have discussed (lamented?) in other threads, the vigil Mass of Christmas seems to be a very popular way of getting the religious bit of Christmas out of the way as soon as possible.

Anyone seen Christmas cards on sale yet? I went up to our local Carmelites to get a baptism card a couple of weeks ago to discover that they had all their Christmas stock on sale!

I must stop posting so often- I'm embarrased to discover I'm in the top 10 posters :oops:
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Nick Baty wrote:...and I've bought my first Stollen.

So, when will you eat it? :lol:
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Are you the Grinch that's stollen Christmas?

I'm hoping to do (numbers permitting) Phillipp Nicolai "How brightly shines the morning star" this Christmas. I have a very good flautist to play the Bach cantata with it. I'll start teaching it as soon as the copies arrive from GIA.
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Flippin' 'eck. We're not starting on Advent until next week!
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ROFL at Nick.
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Showing my age, I know, but what is ROFL?
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Post by musicus »

OT (off-topic):

Rolling On The Floor Laughing

(The T is optional)

There are, of course, variations on this - most of which are not polite or acceptable here. :wink:
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musicus wrote:There are, of course, variations on this - most of which are not polite or acceptable here.

But you can, ahem, PM musicus to find out what's missing. :oops:
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mcb wrote:But you can, ahem, PM musicus to find out what's missing. :oops:

LOL! Don't bother... :D
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