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MarilynW
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Posted: March 03 2008 at 11:27am \| IP Logged

I am interested in knowing how your parish is assigning tickets. Also what is the policy on nursing babies - do they count as a ticket? We would love to go- but 7 tickets is probably going to be impossible. We have family who may donate us their tickets - but our parish will not let this be done.

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Posted: March 03 2008 at 12:22pm \| IP Logged

Our parish is having a lottery. They haven't specified what they'll do about families. I'm not sure I'd take a ticket for myself even if I won one because my 17mo can't sit through stuff and it probably wouldn't be fair to others. I do hope my husband and son get to go, though.

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Posted: March 03 2008 at 1:54pm \| IP Logged

Our parish is doing a lottery as well. But the date for submitting your name was Saturday, so my DH and I missed it. It would be wonderful to have the family go, but it is going to be a very long day, so I figured that it would just be one of us going, with no kids.

Our pastor said that tickets were non-transferrable because they have quite a bit of security for the Mass. There has to be background checks on everyone who gets a ticket, which is why the date was set so early to sign up.

My DH wishes they chose a larger location, so more people could come. It does seem a little odd that they wouldn't do it at the Mall in DC like JPII did, or some larger stadium. I am sure it will be an amazing experience!

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Posted: March 03 2008 at 2:51pm \| IP Logged

It's a lottery at the parish we attend. I don't know what the deadline is/was; hasn't been a priority in our recent illness. My husband thinks it is limited to two tickets per family. If the tickets are non-transferrable, forget it -- the chances of us being able to get suitable and affordable babysitters during the event are so small that I had had a high expectation of donating any tickets we'd happened to win.

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