Christmas Eve Midnight Mass - BBC 2019 - Croydon Minster

The annual BBC television broadcast of Christmas Eve Midnight Mass, 2019. On this year it came live from Croydon Minster, London.
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Croydon Minster:
www.croydonminster.org/
Information on the organ:
www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html...
The Church of England:
www.churchofengland.org/
Anglican Choral Tradition:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglica...

[@dirksachse6574]

Good day to all, I`m a roman catholic priest in Germany, but having seen this Midnight Mass, I really was so pleased by the lovely liturgy, the vestments and above all the excellent music. My dear brothers and sisters in the Church of England, i only can say: Welcome, wonderful and thank you for this remarkable service!!!

[@grazinkak9364]

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[@JessicaSalenaOrtiz]

Merry Christmas Father Sachese

[@paulparsons4003]

Not all churches in U.K. are of this standard. But I can do this for you in Germany if you want !

[@dirksachse6574]

@@paulparsons4003 I thank you very much, but I am a retired priest now. I am not any longer a vicar in charge!

[@victormus533]

Best service watching at 2023

[@TheLolbot3000]

Lovely Anglo-Catholic service. I wish my cathedral was a little higher church now!

[@seanmclatgal7]

Merry Christmas! Thanks from Saint-Petersburg, Igermanland, Russia

[@alphinjosephchackochan8906]

Watching on November 2021, gives me hope, peace and joy. Waiting for upcoming Christmas.

[@cristiananton2068]

Very peaceful and Biblically connected. It has put my mind at ease, in a state of inertia and calm.

[@sallyjohansson6045]

The organ and choir singing Mozart at 10.30 is beautiful.

[@omendjadi]

Watching June 2020. Gives me hope.

[@timotheecoloueille7647]

Wishing you all the best! Hard times, but an even greater God was born in this season. Merry Christmas to you!

[@bebotmaxphilippines.5656]

Yes, it gives us hope in this pandemic

[@bebotmaxphilippines.5656]

Watching, January 2021, it gives us hope..

[@exeyez1969]

Jesus is God. My Saviour. He sets me free. He gave me new life. Halleluya. Amen.

[@stevengrammer5261]

God bless Christmas mass from Lynnwood Washington U.S.A.!

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Charles Wesley wrote Hark The Herald Angels Sing, Mendelssohn composed the tune.

[@DannyEastVillage]

the choir is wonderful. Their Latin is very good.

[@jamesrobert680]

Immaculate.

[@jamesrobert680]

Beautiful service.

[@jamesrobert680]

@chris falkenberg if you have nothing relevant, then fuck off.

[@alphinjosephchackochan8906]

So wonderful Christmas midnight mass 🙂 feeling rejuvenated

[@thomashosking385]

Really beautiful. Many thanks for uploading.

[@wernermasfranck433]

Magnificent Christmas Eve celebration! We are all children of the Heavenly Father. Thanks for charing this heartwarming message of hope and comfort! Peace and joy to my brothers and sisters in Croydon and the world! God bless you all and a Merry Christmas and Happy New year from Brussels.

[@yvonnewratten5855]

Lovely service

[@butlerson]

Absolutely magnificent and inspiring!

[@7Cherubim]

Superb

[@DannyEastVillage]

how can people be so petty and mean that they take the trouble to come here and trash this delightful liturgy at which so many different types of people are having a wonderful time glorifying the Incarnation?

[@thomashosking385]

I agree with you. Peace and goodwill?

[@RogerYng]

A great service. But why do people comment negatively on such stupid things? Do we really need anti-Anglican remarks? Or what Cranmer would have wanted nearly 500 years ago? People can be so tiresome. Thanks for posting this.

[@1906rah]

Who is that lovely man who read the gospel? He is suffused with joy!

[@Jim-bh7gs]

I had the same thought.

[@simonem.5678]

That’s is meant by: Gospel means good news

[@omendjadi]

What a wonderful, diverse Christian community.

[@HumanCath]

Is this NOM in anglican Church?

[@allanjerry5199]

Can anyone give the name of the Latin song sung at the beginning of the mass?

[@patrickspiers7155]

It is the Introit from the Gregorian rite of the Catholic church...Dominus Dixit ad me. It has been sung at the beginning of every Latin Mass for the nativity since written many hundreds of years ago. It is sung in most Catholic churches and ALWAYS in St Peters Rome. As a Catholic choir master, we sing this but I have to say, seldom have I heard it sung so beautifully... well done Croydon choir...what an absolute treasure! God Bless you all. x

[@allanjerry5199]

@@patrickspiers7155 Thank you for the info. Love and greetings from India.

[@Jim-bh7gs]

@@allanjerry5199 As a Roman Catholic who stumbled upon this. I have to say, those people SANG like I have never experienced in any parish or cathedral I 've been in. Is it the Brits, their church,or what? Catholics don't sing heartily.( I think organists play louder to cover up.)

[@johnwebb4655]

@@Jim-bh7gs most Catholic choirs are music illiterate. The church that got the sacred music started has now become the least skilled. It’s a shame really

[@franmontiel11]

20:41

[@jackmorrison7379]

Nicely done and I love the diversity of the congregation and choir. No expert on London and surrounding neighborhoods here in Yankee land but Croydon seems very far from the "posh" districts. On a channel named after Archbishop Cranmer it is more than strange to see such Anglo-Catholic "we can do high mass better than the Latin church" . After all Cranmer died a grisly death at the hands of "Bloody" Queen Mary for rejecting both the ceremonial and theological viewpoints shown here.

[@colinlavelle7806]

Exactly....Cranmer loathed the mass and I'm sure he celebrated mass (reluctantly) because he had to to stay in favour with Henry VIII. He also loathed any pretence at the true presence in the eucharist.

[@michaelj5168]

@@colinlavelle7806then he got exactly what he deserved in the end

[@annasetbo562]

where can we get traditional mass in Australia.

[@johnking5174]

Why are you asking here?

[@annasetbo562]

@@johnking5174 So that Australia Parishes can see and follow.

[@johnking5174]

@@annasetbo562 Croydon Minster here is not Roman Catholic

[@annasetbo562]

@@johnking5174 Oh, I did not know. It looks so similar. Anyway It is the best service I have seen and like it very much. God bless John

[@johnking5174]

@@annasetbo562 It is a Church of England place of worship. I don't know if you know what the Church of England is?

[@discobean54]

I'm curious to know is this is a Catholic service?

[@howardstephens5003]

Church of England (Anglican)

[@michaelheintz8853]

Is this C of E or RC? The music is too good to be RC.

[@thomascranmer8653]

CofE

[@nk11090]

The two are very similar

[@Jim-bh7gs]

Ohgod, funny, and SO TRUE! And people sang their hearts out.

[@mraihansidhartta309]

This is catholic church or anglican church ?

[@joshuamiller-le753]

anglican. you can tell by the good music. lol

[@mraihansidhartta309]

@@joshuamiller-le753 oh true anglican music so excited, but what happen with their people, many left the church

[@jackmorrison7379]

@TheRenaissanceman65 Gospel processions are regularly done in both broad church and high church Episcopal churches with enough clergy and assisting liturgical party (a distinct minority these days). The gospel is read "among the people". Modern Roman Catholics also do a truncated procession on Sundays to the speaking stand ("ambo"?) with thurifer and torch bearers. They don't leave the chancel to mix with the unwashed. The sermon length was likely dictated by a BBC production assistant named Jeremy to "fit " in the time constraints of the broadcast. Anglican or R.C. had nothing to do with it.

[@eatonjask]

@TheRenaissanceman65 "And the sermon was less than 10 minutes - very un-Protestant." As the Anglican Church isn't Protestant, very appropriate.

[@eatonjask]

@TheRenaissanceman65 "It is Protestant because it isn't Catholic."??????? Claptrap! By that definition, the Russian Orthodox and Egyptian Antiochean churches are also 'Protestant', which is most assuredly untrue. I have read the 39 Articles - I've studied them in a comparative religions class. They make the Anglican Church distinct, but not Protestant. Jan Hus and Martin Luther would roll in their graves at calling the Anglicans "Protestant". That the 'Roman Catholic' church choses to be binary about being "catholic" or "protestant" doesn't make them right. Rome doesn't get to define what is or isn't in the Christian world.

[@gillehrer2824]

It doesn't matter if the rites, ceremonies and doctrines are similar, the fact is that the rebellious "Catholic" church in London has been headed by the British monarch since 1534 because the overbearing British ruler wanted it so. Therefore, I'd like to ask: When will we have an English queen/king to make a new reconciliation between England and Rome (Vatican), as Queen Mary I did? Christ's church is unique and the Pope is the only only representative of Christ's church on Earth, it shouldn't have divisions with Orthodox, Protestants, Anglicans and Catholics in separate churches. AM I RIGHT or WRONG? xx== (gilberto lehrer from brazil)

[@eatonjask]

As long as the Roman Catholic church sticks to unsupported formulations and claims such as " the Pope is the only representative of Christ's church on Earth," claims unsupported by the Gospels, then there will be divisions, into those who follow Jesus' teachings and hear Jesus speaking through the Bible and through his followers, and those who insist that 'a person' - the Bishop of Rome - is the only human God speaks to. In short, you are wrong. But freedom of religion and belief means you are entitled to your beliefs. Now, let's get back to celebrating Jesus' birth.

[@jackmorrison7379]

There are what Senor Lehrer, 200 million to 500 million fully lapsed Catholics of the Latin Rite worldwide? They worship possessions, lust, sport, gambling but never our blessed Lord. Yet you and people like you never seem to worry about their souls??? Instead you come here with your overbearing and arrogant triumphalism to prance about in your alleged exclusivity as if you know more than His Holiness who is never arrogant and always welcoming to us. Are you in full union with Rome or in one of those breakaway sects who do not recognize the current and last 3 Popes??? We are part of Christ's church. You have a psychological need for an exclusive club! So did the Pharisees!

[@JeffAvants]

Well, you are certainly wrong not ask what the Roman Church's part was in this division. I tire of the arrogance of the Roman Church. If they want real revival and unity, then they will have to humble themselves, admit their faults, and seek their part in reconciliation. Also, you misunderstand the nature of a long running history between the papacy and England, before Henry VIII ever took the throne. His actions were merely the catalyst to a preexisting condition and course that had been set politically, theologically, morally, economically, ad nauseam, in actions by the Churches at Rome, England, and between English royal rulers and Rome and the Popes . If Rome could take one-tenth the responsiblity for that as it has for sexual sins and harm (and ALL churches and society are guilty of this too), then the healing and bonding in Christian unity could truly begin.

[@patrickcarlow8758]

Let us pray for the unity of the church will be restored with the help of the holy SPIRIT. Catholic priest here, ministering in Nevada.it was a beautiful celebration.

[@colinlavelle7806]

@@JeffAvants I also tire at the stuffiness of the established CofE in their ghastly attire and privelidged position . The Royal's ariving at Westminster greeted by the Dean and chapter bowing and scraping. (it hasn't been a Abbey since 1559 when the Abbot and monks were expelled by Elizabeth I) after all it was formerly a cathoilc church as were most of the current Anglican Cathedrals in England today.

[@colinlavelle7806]

Thomas Cranmer the protestant Abp of Canterbury would not approve...he loathed the mass and the implication that jesus was corporally present on the eucharist!!! I say that as a catholic.

[@paulparsons4003]

This is a parish church, not a minster!

[@bwilliamleo7872]

The church was elevated to the status of Croydon Minster as the modern honorific title on 29 May 2011.

[@paulparsons4003]

@@bwilliamleo7872 pompous nonsense.

[@michaelj5168]

@@paulparsons4003spoken like a true Grinch!!