| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | CastleBee (81)
12/06/2005 | Not recognizing the true meaning of Christmas on some level is like going to a birthday party, grabbing all the presents and ignoring the guest of honor.
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 | BugahaNE (19)
12/03/2005 | This was always a tradition in my family. At the time I remember going mainly so I would not have to go to mass in the morning. Plus the Midnight mass was very moving, the slow, sadder Christmas songs would be sung, Silent Night etc.. You also got to see people you have not seen for awhile, college kids, with new boy or girlfriends.
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 | scarletfeather (47)
12/03/2005 | When I was growing up I was friends with a Catholic family. They went to Midnight Mass, then when they got home they opened Christmas presents. I never heard the kids complain about it.
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 | traderboy (25)
12/03/2005 |  Perhaps it's just me, but doesn't it seem the teensiest bit telling that most kids HAVE to be dragged into these guilt trips? It almost makes you think they know something you don't (or don't care to). I've never complained too much about the practice, as it's been a moderately effective way of building skeptics and freethinkers (where poorly-answered questions take root and germinate within the minds of the inquisitive). And where do the majority of the little darlings end up during these "services"? Passed out cold on nursery sofas, kneeling backwards on pews (paying attention to everyone BUT the speaker), racing through basement hallways, tripping into Nativity dioramas, or with arms folded in sullen hostility (my favorite). Locational osmosis has to account for the lion's share of recollective message marketing, 'cause it sure ain't focused intellect. I've lost track of the number of "my parents were Orwellian fascists" testimonials I've been e-mailed over the years (and many of the torturous aftermaths endured afterwards), all of which could have been sidestepped by indulging the simple concept of letting kids be kids during the scant time they possess.
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 | GenghisTheHun (168)
12/03/2005 | I saw the comment below and couldn't resist. Where would you rather take your kids on Christmas Eve? Would you want to take them to a traditional, steeped in history, Latin or Greek High Mass with all the ancient traditions? Or would you rather take them to some undecorated hall with a goober standing up front, sweating, waving his book talisman and with members of the congregation wailing or chanting or speaking in diabolical tongues in the good old Pentcostal style as a response to his cadenced "preaching?"
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 | frogio (47)
12/02/2005 | Haul them by the ear lobes if you have to. In my house, I make sure the kids remember Jesus' last name isn't Mattel.
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 | HistoryFan (98)
12/02/2005 | This used to be a problem when I was a kid. Usually, after we would spend Christmas Eve with my mom's relatives, my parents would dress me up and haul my butt to Midnight Mass, where I'd promptly fall asleep on Dad's shoulder.
Nowadays, I kinda miss it (even though I'm Baptist now).
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