How do you feel about going carol singing with LSM? I can't feel it's wrong, because of father always being right and because it's such fun, and that also make me feel that singing carols on other occasions in Advent is OK. [grins] It's sufficiently close to Christmas for me to be ok with it. I grew up with the tradition of having one's (Christmas) Carol Service on the evening of Advent 4 so I'm using to anticipating by a few days. There are those (my uncle included, at least in the past) who hold not before Christmas Eve. In principal I agree, and would love to see Carol services happening on the Sunday after Christmas say, but recognise that in today's mobile world there are many pratical problems with that.
I will not, however, be going Carol singing in the town centre with MethSoc on Wednesday. I managed it last year (on the Friday of this week anyway), but I can't do it this.
The other thing is I can see a difference between singing in Church and going out and singing to people in the streets. Something to do with the different foci of these things or something.
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It's sufficiently close to Christmas for me to be ok with it. I grew up with the tradition of having one's (Christmas) Carol Service on the evening of Advent 4 so I'm using to anticipating by a few days. There are those (my uncle included, at least in the past) who hold not before Christmas Eve. In principal I agree, and would love to see Carol services happening on the Sunday after Christmas say, but recognise that in today's mobile world there are many pratical problems with that.
I will not, however, be going Carol singing in the town centre with MethSoc on Wednesday. I managed it last year (on the Friday of this week anyway), but I can't do it this.
The other thing is I can see a difference between singing in Church and going out and singing to people in the streets. Something to do with the different foci of these things or something.