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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catholic husband hasn't been to mass since before we married, though we attend regularly elsewhere and would be considered devout/observant by most. The biggest reason is the protection of pedophiles from the church, but also because I'm not Catholic. I've been feeling increasingly guilty about this, since I know they prefer Catholics not marry Protestants because we tend to do exactly what happened - drag them away. I know he's a big boy and can make his own decisions, but let's be honest, he'd probably still be attending mass if it weren't for me. Any advice on getting over it?[/quote]

Everything seems fine. So what if he goes to a different christian church for mass.

Is he bringing this up? Doesn’t sound like it.

Why are you bringing this up? [/quote]
Episcopalians don’t have mass. Only Catholics and the Orthodox have the mass. It is something to be worried about since, for the husband and only the husband, this is a matter of grave mortal sin for him.[/quote]

Lutherans have the mass. So do Episcopalians. Catholics and the Orthodox do not have a monopoly on this.[/quote]

Lutherans have “divine service.”  With the possible exception of some Scandinavians, they are even farther from the idea of Eucharistic sacrifice than the Episcopals. Both groups are offspring of the Roman church and abandoned many Catholic beliefs. You can call what they do whatever you like, but they don’t even call it a “Mass” themselves and the ones I know would hasten to distinguish it since they don’t believe in what the Catholics believe occurs at Mass.

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+1. I’m very dear friends with a Lutheran pastor in one of the traditional flavors and he is adamant that it is not a mass in either name or in what is happening. And their version of how the host becomes the body of Christ, they don’t know, it’s just a mystery.[/quote]

Doesn't matter. It's not a symbol like Catholics pretend we believe.[/quote]

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