Coping with the "Holiday" season

[Eilonnwy]

I suppose in Catholicism you have all the mass's n stuff. Never understood those. Christmas for me is nothing more than the secular holiday of over indugence followed by the bleakness of January and February. Easter is a 3 day party where you're sad for a couple of days then party. Much nicer and actually meaningful.

Yeah, there's a Christmas mass my mother goes to on Christmas Eve at Midnight (So technically Christmas Day.) I used to go, and actually I liked those masses. We sang Joy to the World, which is one of my favorite religious x-mas songs, and other fun songs, plus the church would look really nice with Christmas lights and everything.

Easter for me is palm branches and special dresses. There was the Palm Sunday mass where we got the palm leaves. Then Good Friday was always a somber affair. The Catholic Church does not have Mass on Good Friday and that's the only time of the year when the tabernacle that contains consecrated hosts is empty and the candle put out. I think the symbolism there is Jesus is dead so no Body of Christ for you! And then of course Easter Sunday which is the busiest church mass ever. Those non-practicing Catholics come out of the woodwork on Easter and sometimes Christmas. Easter was just never that fun for me, so when I became an atheist I didn't mind not celebrating it. *shrugs*