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Traditional Catholic Faith => Catholic Living in the Modern World => Topic started by: Cantarella on December 30, 2013, 12:52:26 PM
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How do you bring in the New Year? Any special family traditions?
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How do you bring in the New Year? Any special family traditions?
Singing Te Deum in church on the 31st. You get a plenary indulgence for doing so.
Alas I have no traditional church near me, so the indulgence shall not be mine.
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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.
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Nothing too special. Usually some relatives come over, we play games until midnight, do the ten second countdown, and drink some champagne.
On New Year's Day, we go to Mass, and have pork of some kind for dinner.
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I sleep the new year in, unless i'm woken by fireworks, then I roll over and go back to sleep. It's just another sleep for me. Oh! before we go to bed we do a bit of this: :alcohol:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Happy New Year
:rahrah: :rahrah: :rahrah: :applause: :applause: :applause: :jumping2: :jumping2: :jumping2: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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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.
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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.
That sounds like such an entertaining occupation.
I have not attended to such a big Catholic party but perhaps one day I will host one. I would be delighted!
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Happy new year everybody! :alcohol:
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Happy New Year to everyone on CathInfo!
Psalms 64-12-14
"Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy fields shall be filled with plenty. The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the hills shall be girded about with joy, The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound with corn: they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn."
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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:
January 1st is the Feast of the Circuмcision and it is a Holy Day of obligation.
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How do you bring in the New Year? Any special family traditions?
Singing Te Deum in church on the 31st. You get a plenary indulgence for doing so.
Alas I have no traditional church near me, so the indulgence shall not be mine.
Traditionally, on the 31st was prayed the "Parce Domine" twice then the "Miserere" (Psalm 50) before midnight in repentence for our faults and offences of the past year. Then the Te Deum was prayed to thank God for his graces and protection.
This is a good devotion to pray at home if your chapel isn't having Midnight Mass which was also a Catholic tradition.
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Happy New Year and many thanks to Matthew and Mater Dominici for Cath Info.
You are aware the abortion act commences in Ireland tomorrow. How one should feel differs to what one must do.
As you know many have been praying for the demise of the treasonous Irish government.
I shall be spending the next couple of hours in prayer.
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We usually eat and play Bingo, while wearing funny hats, for which we have small prizes.
If we have mass on New Year's Day available, we go. I like to make lots of appetizers on the holy day and we just kind of munch on those throughout the day.
I usually make a resolution or two.
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A Happy New Year and a Happy Feast of our Lord's Circuмcision to all.
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How do you bring in the New Year? Any special family traditions?
Singing Te Deum in church on the 31st. You get a plenary indulgence for doing so.
Alas I have no traditional church near me, so the indulgence shall not be mine.
Traditionally, on the 31st was prayed the "Parce Domine" twice then the "Miserere" (Psalm 50) before midnight in repentence for our faults and offences of the past year. Then the Te Deum was prayed to thank God for his graces and protection.
This is a good devotion to pray at home if your chapel isn't having Midnight Mass which was also a Catholic tradition.
That's interesting. I'd like to do that. It would also be nice to pray Matins at Midnight. Many years ago when I was in the Novus Ordo, we had a holy hour of reparation from 11-12, followed by Mass at Midnight. It must have been a carry over.
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Happy New Year to all on here, and a blessed feast day of the Circuмcision of Our Lord.
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:dancing-banana:Happy New Year to all on CI!
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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:
The Newchurchers drew this one out of the hat, with a triple purpose:
1) Eliminate the Feast of the Circuмcision (because it's an embarrassment when dealing with our "elder (big) brothers" in the faith, and we are all about feeling good about ourselves).
2) Abandon the longstanding Feast of the Divine Maternity on October 11th, which they didn't want to think about every time they recalled their landmark M.R.S. of 1962. But they had to have a replacement date on the Newcalendar for a diversionary tactic, thus, Jan. 1st became the target date.
3) As it were a 'bonus' -- the Eastern Church could be given a nod of recognition, including the Orthodox, who have a significant preference for "Mother of God" over "Divine Maternity."
You could say there was a fourth purpose, but it's the same one that apples to ALL the Newcalendar changes: the overall effect of the changes was to instill confusion among the faithful, for that was the most prominent effect of them all, including this one. They never admitted they were trying to instill confusion, but since the overall effect was just that, and they never did explain any good reason for all the changes, once they were set in place they multiplied in a quasi-feeding frenzy of change throughout the abominable 1960's. If we think we are having a hard time now, try to imagine the time Catholics were having in the 60's. A significant number of regular church-goers simply stopped coming to church.
Oh -- Happy New Year! Christ is Born! Happy Feast of His Circuмcision!
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Happy New Year everyone! The Lord is good!