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

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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.

No. You should learn about your religion.

To be fair, catechesis has been garbage for decades. When I was in grad school a Catholic student in the American history section I was teaching had no idea who Moses was (important for African American history). Unbelievable that someone could grow up going to Mass for 18 years and never have heard of Moses before…

If you went to Mass even just on Sunday for 18 years you certainly heard a great deal about Moses because the cycle of readings includes his story and particularly his role in the Exodus.

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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.

No. You should learn about your religion.

To be fair, catechesis has been garbage for decades. When I was in grad school a Catholic student in the American history section I was teaching had no idea who Moses was (important for African American history). Unbelievable that someone could grow up going to Mass for 18 years and never have heard of Moses before…

If you went to Mass even just on Sunday for 18 years you certainly heard a great deal about Moses because the cycle of readings includes his story and particularly his role in the Exodus.

Yeah that’s why I was kind of shocked. To be fair she was one of my less-intelligent students (out of two sections of 50, most of whom struggled to string together three sentences to make a paragraph…)

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Anonymous wrote:I Always schedule DD’s birthday party on Sunday morning so that the overly regimented weirdos who think no other mass “counts” don’t go.

Well if your DD goes to Catholic school then the only person you’re hurting is her, by scheduling her party at a time when her friends are likely unable to attend.

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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.

No. You should learn about your religion.

To be fair, catechesis has been garbage for decades. When I was in grad school a Catholic student in the American history section I was teaching had no idea who Moses was (important for African American history). Unbelievable that someone could grow up going to Mass for 18 years and never have heard of Moses before…

If you went to Mass even just on Sunday for 18 years you certainly heard a great deal about Moses because the cycle of readings includes his story and particularly his role in the Exodus.

Yeah that’s why I was kind of shocked. To be fair she was one of my less-intelligent students (out of two sections of 50, most of whom struggled to string together three sentences to make a paragraph…)

Cool story.

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Anonymous wrote:I Always schedule DD’s birthday party on Sunday morning so that the overly regimented weirdos who think no other mass “counts” don’t go.

But I bet you never do it on Saturday mornings because the weirdos with sports game wouldn't go then either. Right?

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Anonymous wrote:I Always schedule DD’s birthday party on Sunday morning so that the overly regimented weirdos who think no other mass “counts” don’t go.

Mmm hmm.

Do you schedule parties on Yom Kippur to avoid the Jewish kids you know?

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Anonymous wrote:I Always schedule DD’s birthday party on Sunday morning so that the overly regimented weirdos who think no other mass “counts” don’t go.

Well if your DD goes to Catholic school then the only person you’re hurting is her, by scheduling her party at a time when her friends are likely unable to attend.

Actually, it’s usually a full house. I assume that attendees simply go to mass another time, even if that means that they’re now going to purgatory or hell because they went to mass at the “wrong time.” Very nice of them.