church humour and Christmas/holiday plays

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Mary Ann" <macloudt at ...> wrote:
> Our old family church in Toronto used to call them "twice-a-year 
> Catholics", and these people received a stern talking-to from the 
> priest.  They also provided fun distractions for bored stiff 
teenagers  as these twice-a-year folk didn't know when to sit, kneel or 
stand.   Yes, I was that bored during mass. :D  A British priest I knew 
referred  to these folks as Submarine Catholics as they only surface 
twice a year.  I love this phrase, lapsed Catholic that I am.
> 
> Do other religions have such terms for infrequent worshippers?  Just 
curious.
> 

Tonks:

At my Church we call them Christers. Meaning Christmas/Easter. But I 
understand that this name also mean something else in other areas. Our 
current Priest objects to the term, but I think it is funny. An no, we 
don't mean it in a bad way, just in a fun way.

Tonks_op