With the new stricter rules, not laws passed by the legislation, but rules announce by your governor, gather of people outside of your direct family members is prohibited. Except for religious services and protest. I sh$t you not. Well that being the case , we won't be having our friends and family together for a Christmas Eve. party, rather it will be friends and family getting together for a Christmas Eve. protest. Or, it will be a religious service. One of the guys attending is an ordained minister.