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n. A Roman Catholic religious service that marks the beginning of Christmas Day
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Midnight Mass is a Christmas Eve liturgical tradition in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.
Midnight Mass may also refer to:
- Midnight, Mass., a Vertigo comics series
- Midnight Mass (EP), a 2010 EP by Acid Witch
- Midnight Mass, a 2004 novel by F. Paul Wilson
- Midnight Mass, a movie event series created by Peaches Christ in San Francisco, California
- "A Midnight Mass", a scene in the play Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn
Midnight Mass is the second EP by the American heavy metal band Acid Witch. It was released on October 16, 2010, on Hell's Headbangers.
Usage examples of "midnight mass".
Father Roche knelt next to him and hoisted him easily over his shoulder, the clerk's head and arms hanging limply down, the way Kivrin had carried Agnes home from the midnight mass.
After midnight Mass -- we'd just finished mixing the punch -- the Swedes and Finns came pouring out of the Seamen's Church across the street.
They have told us if we dare to hold Midnight Mass in the Cathedral, they will storm the town.
I was cold and damp myself, and thinking only of getting inside and dressing for Midnight Mass.
Then, as I said, Christmas comes and after Midnight Mass we are all a little surprised (a lot actually) when Father Crosby only gives us a dirty look and ignores us but doesn't kick us out of his church, like excommunicate us in front of everyone.
On Christmas Eve I made a big fire and lay there on the white bearskin rug beside it thinking of all the Christmases in Europe, midnight mass in Paris, the bells ringing in the village at the foot of the cliffs on Saint Esprit.
Let's just be selfish for once and sit here in the last pew and sing along with the carolers and pretend it's our first midnight mass together.
They were walking to midnight mass and the church was right around the corner on Sanborn Road.