Still 23 days: celebrating Christmas night ... Just over three weeks until the birth of Christ hard, and thus high time to think about the design of the (free time during the liturgy) holidays.
The mandatory-family Partially determined (Christmas Eve with their parents, they then each a feast day in the adult children of guest), the bulk of the remaining time is more than well filled with liturgical service: Christmas, High Mass, if necessary Worship, stand in the evening shows as Communion assistants ... I think it's good when the (few) celibate communion helpers / do the inside, so those who are married have time for the family. However, I wished that our clergy service by producing the same times ... . Prepares o (
A certain headaches my holy night Until I came home from the Christmas, exchanged the pregnant Mary to my Ankleidekrippe no longer pregnant laid out, the various child Jesus into their hay-and-diaper-weighing and fell into bed, and then on Christmas morning to appear with their parents for breakfast and for the purpose of the Junior High Office to pick up. This year, however, the little brother right and the little brother to stay after the spiritual (bringing forward) Midnight overnight - I live just 400 meters from the church -. And in the morning it is closed to high office serving that we can not go to sleep directly / be located, as somehow obvious ...! In addition, the other (adult) Altar and "our" Cathedral vicar invited to stop by for an hour or so maybe a bit longer to taste the exhilaration of matins with a glass of wine and Christmas cookies.
The question of questions: How to design this "hour" (or two) in a meaningful way?
I mean, is perhaps now a great conversation revealed all sit together happily, time flies away and the round is veeery sad, if it is to finally go to bed. But in case that it is not so nice, I would have quite liked one or two proposals in store how to celebrate this special night worthy.
I throw the question time in the round and look forward to your comments. Oh yes: The film "The Nativity Story at the time was noted already on the list ... O)