Author Topic: Happy New Year (Read 2060 times)

Cantarella · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2013, 02:29:11 PM »

Does anyone make resolutions?

We do and also eat grapes at midnight! 12 grapes for 12 wishes. :smile:

I am happy to report that I kept most of my resolutions for 2013, except for one or two.

Matto · « **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2013, 02:38:23 PM »

Quote from: LoverOfTradition

Happy New Year 2014 to all!

We usually attend the Holy Mass since the Feast of Mary, Mother of God is a Holy Day of Obligation in the US.

:smile:

Traditional Catholics should call the first of the year the feast of the circuмcision of Our Lord as it was traditionally called.

Frances · « **Reply #7 on:** December 30, 2013, 02:41:44 PM »

:dancing-banana:
As a child, my parents would host a neighborhood cocktail party. We children would go to bed early then be woken up around 11:30. We'd join the adults to watch the ball come down in Times Square on TV, then run to the door and bang pots and pans with spoons. A WWII veteran neighbor would always fire off 21 shots to honor his buddies who were killed in the Philippines. We ate mini-hot dogs in cocktail sauce, chips with onion and clam dip, cheese and Ritz crackers, pickled herring in cream sauce. The children had cranberry juice and a tiny sip of champaign, after which time we went back to bed. The usual New Years Day dinner was roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans, creamed baby onions, French bread and butter with vanilla ice cream for dessert. I do not recall going to Mass, so I do not think we went.
Nowadays, my parents go to bed their usual 9:30. Any 'celebration' is done prior to then. The novus ordo churches in this area do not seem to observe any Holy Day of Obligation on January 1. There is none but the usual 9:30 am daily mass listed in my parents' n.o. bulletin. I have no special plans this year. I'll have to head directly for home after Mass (SSPX) as it is back to work at 6:30 am on Jan. 2.

poche · « **Reply #8 on:** December 30, 2013, 10:31:48 PM »

Happy New Year
:rahrah: :rahrah: :rahrah: :applause: :applause: :applause: :jumping2: :jumping2: :jumping2: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

jen51 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 30, 2013, 11:06:21 PM »

I have no plans this year. I'll probably do the same thing I've been doing the past few evenings, which is spinning wool while drinking wine. :farmer:

A couple New Years ago I went to the greatest party ever. It was about 70 Catholics in one house- drinking, laughing and being merry. There was a certain condition to attend this party though. You had to come with a diddy to share- a song sung or played, a poem, or what have you. The "stage" was in the living room, and all night until about 3 am the stage stayed busy. My favorite was a group of young men who would get up and sing hearty, boisterous Irish songs, and in the next instant they'd be singing melancholy songs of fair maidens and unrequited love. Then ladies would get up and sing beautiful songs and play charming melodies. Every once in awhile the stage would pause and everyone would join in on a Christmas carol. What a fond memory. Catholics know how to throw a party.