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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The email saying there would be no Catholic Mass is uneducated given that Mass isn't celebrated on Good Friday.

There is no reason, other than bigotry, that a Stations of the Cross, which is common in both Catholic and Protestant churches.[/quote]
Mass IS celebrated on Good Friday. [/quote]

No. I hope you are not Catholic. Hopefully you wouldn't be this ignorant of your own practice.

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/no-communion-on-good-friday
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That is an article explaining that while there may be a service where communion is available, it uses pre-sanctified hosts that were consecrated on Holy Thursday, because Mass (the service at which the bread and wine are consecrated) does not happen on Friday.  [/quote]
I think that the PP is being a little overly technical and hung up on terminology. But the bottom line is that Catholics do participate in “services” on Good Friday (and they take Communion), so there is no reason why they shouldn’t have been invited to participate in the services at the Pentagon. [/quote]

1. They were plenty invited. It was just going to be a Protestant service.
2. Neither devout Protestants nor devout Catholics want a bland one-size-fits-all service. There are mutually exclusive elements to both services. Protestants and Catholics are NOT in communion with each other. In short: you can have a service that is one or the other but not both. Only irreligious people want a bland service that is a muddled "both". And why do they care? Why would they come?[/quote]

In an 8 hour day they could have found time for more than one service.  Or they could have planned something like a Stations of the Cross which both Protestants and Catholics use.

Or the chaplain’s office (which is where this belongs, not with the leadership) could have sent something out that didn’t reveal ignorance of Catholic practices.  [/quote]

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