If kids go to Catholic, is family expected to attend mass on Sundays?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh, my kids already go to mass on fridays. How many times do they have to go per week? 2? 10?

Sunday is a holy day of obligation. Friday is not.

Neither is Saturday. Yet I know dozens of Catholics -- very devout ones — who go to Saturday Mass instead of Sunday.

So why doesn’t the school-required Friday Mass count?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh, my kids already go to mass on fridays. How many times do they have to go per week? 2? 10?

Sunday is a holy day of obligation. Friday is not.

Neither is Saturday. Yet I know dozens of Catholics -- very devout ones — who go to Saturday Mass instead of Sunday.

So why doesn’t the school-required Friday Mass count?

They are going to the Vigil Mass on Saturday, which the Church has said counts for the Sunday obligation. If they went on Saturday morning that would not qualify as satisfying the Sunday obligation.

If you are Catholic and you do not know about the Sunday obligation then you should talk to a priest about it. It’s honestly kind of silly to identify as Catholic and then make only minimal effort to figure out exactly what that means. It would be like identifying as a German but making no effort to learn about the language or culture. If you are not Catholic, it doesn’t really apply to you, so no need to debate it with internet strangers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh, my kids already go to mass on fridays. How many times do they have to go per week? 2? 10?

Sunday is a holy day of obligation. Friday is not.

Neither is Saturday. Yet I know dozens of Catholics -- very devout ones — who go to Saturday Mass instead of Sunday.

So why doesn’t the school-required Friday Mass count?

They are going to the Vigil Mass on Saturday, which the Church has said counts for the Sunday obligation. If they went on Saturday morning that would not qualify as satisfying the Sunday obligation.

If you are Catholic and you do not know about the Sunday obligation then you should talk to a priest about it. It’s honestly kind of silly to identify as Catholic and then make only minimal effort to figure out exactly what that means. It would be like identifying as a German but making no effort to learn about the language or culture. If you are not Catholic, it doesn’t really apply to you, so no need to debate it with internet strangers.

This is totally false. Have been Catholic my life, as have have family generations before me, and any Saturday Mass is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh, my kids already go to mass on fridays. How many times do they have to go per week? 2? 10?

Sunday is a holy day of obligation. Friday is not.

Neither is Saturday. Yet I know dozens of Catholics -- very devout ones — who go to Saturday Mass instead of Sunday.

So why doesn’t the school-required Friday Mass count?

They are going to the Vigil Mass on Saturday, which the Church has said counts for the Sunday obligation. If they went on Saturday morning that would not qualify as satisfying the Sunday obligation.

If you are Catholic and you do not know about the Sunday obligation then you should talk to a priest about it. It’s honestly kind of silly to identify as Catholic and then make only minimal effort to figure out exactly what that means. It would be like identifying as a German but making no effort to learn about the language or culture. If you are not Catholic, it doesn’t really apply to you, so no need to debate it with internet strangers.

This is totally false. Have been Catholic my life, as have have family generations before me, and any Saturday Mass is fine.

Can. 1248 §1. A person who assists at a Mass celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the feast day itself or in the evening of the preceding day satisfies the obligation of participating in the Mass.

Source: https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann1244-1253_en.html

[Anonymous]

lol no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh, my kids already go to mass on fridays. How many times do they have to go per week? 2? 10?

Sunday is a holy day of obligation. Friday is not.

Neither is Saturday. Yet I know dozens of Catholics -- very devout ones — who go to Saturday Mass instead of Sunday.

So why doesn’t the school-required Friday Mass count?

They are going to the Vigil Mass on Saturday, which the Church has said counts for the Sunday obligation. If they went on Saturday morning that would not qualify as satisfying the Sunday obligation.

If you are Catholic and you do not know about the Sunday obligation then you should talk to a priest about it. It’s honestly kind of silly to identify as Catholic and then make only minimal effort to figure out exactly what that means. It would be like identifying as a German but making no effort to learn about the language or culture. If you are not Catholic, it doesn’t really apply to you, so no need to debate it with internet strangers.

This is totally false. Have been Catholic my life, as have have family generations before me, and any Saturday Mass is fine.

Nope. Saturday morning Mass does not count for the Sunday HDO. Ask your priest.