A question about being late for a Mass

[PaulfromIowa]

Jimmy Akin: Arriving Late and Communion:
http://jimmyakin.com/2007/10/arriving-late-c.html

 

[Evan]

On Tuesdays, I work at the Food Bank and always get to mass late, between the consecration and the Agnes Dei. I can still receive. I HAVE NOT attended mass, though I can still receive if it is the first communion for me that day.

 

[Francis]

@someone429

http://www.ewtn.com/library/liturgy/zliturg9.htm

A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
COMMUNION FOR LATE ARRIVALS AT MASS?

 

[jcrichton]

What you seem to be doing is defending legalism.

Why do you suppose that the Church Commands that we abstain from food (with the exception of water and medicine) for at least one hour?

Is it because Receiving Communion is a matter of convenience or is there a deeper reason?

Why is it that people have no problems arriving at a sports/entertainment/market complex hours before the event but they get all legalistic about the flexibility of attending Mass?

Maran atha!

Angel

 

[babochka]

babochka:

for someone who identifies himself as busting myths, you are perpetuating a big one here. The Church has no definitive cutoff for arrival, nor has it defined how early it is acceptable to leave.

Because the Church is cognizant that things to happen; however, progressive people, as you seem to be, get caught up in the freedom that the Church allows and convert it into a loophole for “I did it my way (anything goes/do as you please).”

Maran atha!

Angel

I’m confused as to why you think I am progressive?

I am simply acknowledging that it is a myth that the Church has a set time at which you are “too late for Mass to count”.

I think you should be there from the beginning to the end, not from the gospel to the Prayer after Communion. As my pastor likes to say, we should be there from the “Amen” to the “Amen”. I don’t agree that there is some sort of “safe-zone” for arriving late or leaving early.

If you have a good reason for being late, so be it. If not, it really isn’t acceptable to arrive late just before the gospel because “it still counts”.

How is this progressive?

 

[JanetF]

I have a question: If I am late for a Mass for several minutes, can I receive the Eucharist during this Mass?

So I was told growing up in the 60’s that if you are late, but are there in time to hear the gospel, and stay through the final blessing you are good.

But as others have stated there is no written rule published by the USCCB. Try your best to get to mass on time. If you are occasionally late through no fault of your own, then trust that God knows your intention.

 

[Cor_ad_Cor]

@jcrichton
I don’t know who you think is defending what; I’m simply reiterating the Church’s teaching. There were several on this thread stating misinformation. This site is of no value if we don’t give people accurate information.

 

[pensmama87]

If it’s a Mass that is not obligatory, I don’t think technically it matters. A few weeks ago I was on my way to daily Mass and got held up by an accident ahead of me on the road. I arrived right before the consecration, and I received.

If this had happened on a Sunday…well, then it would depend. I suppose if I intended on attending another Mass, or if I couldn’t but had still made an effort to arrive on time, there would be no reason to refrain from receiving.