<< Rewind: Midnight Mass

Finally! I've wanted to go to Christmas Mass for as long as I can remember so I was super excited when our friends Adam and Becky invited us to go with them this year. Keep in mind that I've only ever seen it in movies, so I wanted to go to a giant cathedral with a big, beautiful choir. . . and I wanted it to be snowing, of course.


Adam tried his best to give me the "movie" experience I wanted, so he took us to the Christmas Eve Midnight Mass at the Cathedral of St. Paul in Birmingham. (That's a picture of the cathedral we went to.) It was absolutely gorgeous!


So I walked up the steps of that beautiful cathedral, sat with my family and listened to the blessings of the priest and to the choir singing Christmas carols in Latin and it felt like Christmas - finally. The shopping was finished, the family parties were over, for a couple of hours the hustle and bustle stopped and we sat together and remembered what the holiday was really about.