To point out that Christmas is not cancelled

[NotReallyTheVicar]

Many millions of Christians will be celebrating Christmas as joyfully as ever!

@madcatladyforever

Sounds like they mean driving your poor kids all over the countryside for hours on end to see relatives you don't really like is cancelled. Christmas at home is the same as usual.

Yeah

But its not, depending on what the rules are

@madcatladyforever

Sounds like they mean driving your poor kids all over the countryside for hours on end to see relatives you don't really like is cancelled. Christmas at home is the same as usual.

It isn’t the same as usual, though...

Sounds like they mean driving your poor kids all over the countryside for hours on end to see relatives you don't really like is cancelled

I don’t do that anyway.

Christmas at home is the same as usual

No it’s not. As stated above, no carol services, nativities, gatherings with our close friends and family (who we do like), no crib services on Christmas Eve...

Of COURSE its a bloke whinging at all the mums on mumsnet. Of course it is. What a wanker (and old-school christian) thing to do.

I honestly don't think men know all the women-work that goes into a "normal" Christmas.

@madcatladyforever

Sounds like they mean driving your poor kids all over the countryside for hours on end to see relatives you don't really like is cancelled. Christmas at home is the same as usual.

But I do like my relatives? In fact, I love them very much. We're going to struggle to make it a special day just me, DH and a toddler - we've had plenty of days in the house and walks as a family this year, more than enough... And, more pertinently to this thread, as a Christian it will make me very sad indeed that we probably won't be able to go to a service and celebrate as part of a congregation. Easter watching the vicar on the Zoom was fucking miserable and if I'm honest we've stopped doing 'virtual worship' - it's depressing, DS hates it and so it's actually much harder work than taking him to church, and I get nothing of what I got from a service from it. We probably will make the effort to watch a service on actual Christmas day, but I resent being told that I've missed the whole point if I think that removing the fellowship and contact from worship is a loss.

I also think that if you don't like what you normally do at Christmas because you either agree to or actively volunteer for things that you don't enjoy or don't think are necessary, then that's on you, and its a bit pathetic if you needed a global pandemic to do for you what a little bit of backbone would have achieved...

@Hardbackwriter

I also think that if you don't like what you normally do at Christmas because you either agree to or actively volunteer for things that you don't enjoy or don't think are necessary, then that's on you, and its a bit pathetic if you needed a global pandemic to do for you what a little bit of backbone would have achieved...

Very true.

Martyrdom isn’t healthy.

It's like over the summer there was a spate of posts about how wonderful coronavirus is because the poster had realised for the first time that they could go for a picnic in the park rather than pay £100 for a family day out at a theme park

@Hardbackwriter

It's like over the summer there was a spate of posts about how wonderful coronavirus is because the poster had realised for the first time that they could go for a picnic in the park rather than pay £100 for a family day out at a theme park

Ohhhhh yes. I can very well see Christmas being a rerun of that. "Isn't it lovely that we don't have to spend every free minute dashing between relatives and grottos and shopping centres and trips to Santa's kingdom and Christmas markets!"

'Oh it's so incredible that I don't have to spend four solid weeks cooking to prepare for Christmas dinner!'

Just. Don't. Do. It.

And then watch as no one really cares (which I suspect is the exact reason that so many people insist that they 'have' to do these things for the sake of others - it's too dispiriting to admit they're wasted all this time and money and no one even really noticed, let alone cared that much)

Really going to miss going to an Advent sequence, first Vespers of Christmas and Midnight mass.
I will not miss everything else though! I'm
Working Christmas Day and it's always a great atmosphere.

@NotReallyTheVicar

Your OP is sanctimonious, self-righteous, condescending and un-Christ-like. It is one of the worst adverts for being a Christian I have seen. Good luck with your “holier-than-thou” life.

@Derbygerbil it really wasn't intended to be.