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Rhiannon12866

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11. I'm watching it, too.

Reply to scipan (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2024, 01:16 AM

Dec 25

Stephen Colbert was preempted by local programming here. And it takes me back. When I was 11 or 12 my family drove a few hours away to pick up my maternal grandmother on Christmas Eve. I was give the choice whether to go since I was old enough and we had a new puppy who I loved. But I went and the fog was so bad that my Dad drove up on the lawn of a motel and we ended up staying there on Christmas Eve - with no change of clothes and a puppy left alone at home in the kitchen. And Midnight Mass from the Vatican was what we ended up watching that night on the motel TV. BTW, the puppy was fine despite my mother's worries about the turkey that she'd left out on the kitchen counter to thaw.

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I'm an atheist and I'm watching the Pope's Christmas mass [View all] scipan Dec 25 OP

You are not weird in recognizing goodness & good intentions when you see them, no matter where Hekate Dec 25 #1

Thank you. I like this Pope. He seems to care about humanity. scipan Dec 25 #2

To each their own Meowmee Dec 25 #3

How many cats do you have? Mossfern Dec 25 #31

3 currently 2 passed last year tragically Meowmee Dec 26 #34

I am pretty sure you are weird. RockRaven Dec 25 #4

Heh. Merry Christmas happy solstice happy Holidays to you. scipan Dec 25 #6

You can be weird and still be good people ornotna Dec 25 #5

Pope's mass mamajudi Dec 25 #7

I'm in my 70s too. I was a hippie in the late 60s. I share your hope. scipan Dec 25 #9

I'm a buddhist, and I'm watching as well, as I do every year. flvegan Dec 25 #8

Thank you. scipan Dec 25 #10

I'm watching it, too. Rhiannon12866 Dec 25 #11

What a stressful and wonderful memory. How complicated we are. scipan Dec 25 #18

LOL! Well, everything turned out fine, though there were some scary moments. Rhiannon12866 Dec 25 #20

Not weird at all... WarGamer Dec 25 #12

It's just love. Without it we would be untethered or something. scipan Dec 25 #14

uh no, you're not weird bluboid Dec 25 #13

Well, yes. Iggo Dec 25 #15

Yeah, I knew that. scipan Dec 25 #16

The Message stillspkg Dec 25 #17

You inspired me to find it and watch it. Silver Gaia Dec 25 #19

A Christmas Story is playing on loop ... aggiesal Dec 25 #21

Absolutely not! Think. Again. Dec 25 #22

Like St Frances, nice to the poor and animals, multigraincracker Dec 25 #23

I got caught up watching one of the popes carry a wooden cross to the stations bigtree Dec 25 #24

We Watched It, Too Deep State Witch Dec 25 #25

I went there and it was great. multigraincracker Dec 25 #27

We were there this past September Deep State Witch Dec 25 #28

If you get a chance, visit Assis. multigraincracker Dec 25 #29

I was also in Rome in September T_i_B Dec 25 #33

We Visited St. John Lateran Deep State Witch Dec 26 #35

It's never possible to fit it all in with Italy T_i_B Dec 26 #36

Christians are the Corporations foot soldiers. Funtatlaguy Dec 25 #26

The pope also says that surrogacy is The Revolution Dec 25 #30

I'm jewish and watch midnight mass every year. RubyRose Dec 25 #32