If itās wrong to use the bathroom during Mass, why are there bathrooms available to use?I often need to use the restroom in the morning. I usually go before I leave for Mass and before the Mass starts. However, I usually feel the need to go during Mass too. Is it okay to go to the bathroom real quick during Mass? Thanks!
Very true. It just would feel strange, to me at least, to miss parts of the Mass to go there.If itās wrong to use the bathroom during Mass, why are there bathrooms available to use?
If itās necessary, then itās necessary.
The church in the parish where I grew up didnāt have a bathroom until the 70s. We quickly learned that it was a case of āgo before you leave the houseā or āgo in the bushes behind the churchā. I donāt think any of us got through our childhood without at least one visit to the bushes.
Yes.I often need to use the restroom in the morning. I usually go before I leave for Mass and before the Mass starts. However, I usually feel the need to go during Mass too. Is it okay to go to the bathroom real quick during Mass? Thanks!
Actually, the fast is one hour before Communion, not the start of Mass. And the OP said nothing about coffee.
From what I read on other responses, older church buildings did not have restrooms. In many countries churches do not have themIf itās wrong to use the bathroom during Mass, why are there bathrooms available to use?
Then again, around the time these older churches were built it wasnāt unusual for houses to not have bathrooms either. Outhouses were still a thing when I was growing up in the 50s and we didnāt exactly live in the boonies.From what I read on other responses, older church buildings did not have restrooms. In many countries churches do not have them
One Sunday last summer our pastor was on vacation and his substitute was an elderly, retired priest. He was about 10 minutes into his homily when he got a ādistressedā look on his face and he said, āYou folks are going to have to excuse me for a few minutes.ā Then he was out the door. He returned about 5 minutes later and, without skipping a beat, wrapped up his homily.
Let me just say again that I really think you should find a good spiritual director that you can meet with regularly. You, my friend, have RAGING scrupulosity.I often need to use the restroom in the morning. I usually go before I leave for Mass and before the Mass starts. However, I usually feel the need to go during Mass too. Is it okay to go to the bathroom real quick during Mass? Thanks!
Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go!
Our cathedral still doesnāt have bathrooms. It was built in the 1890s. There are four Masses daily and seven Masses on Sunday, so you have a steady flow of people all week. If you need to use a bathroom you have to walk down the block past the Rectory and into the parish hall.
LOL!
I assume that he does take communion and that as a young man he does have a cup of coffee before Mass. Of course, assumptions do get one into trouble at times, but canāt we be a little lighthearted at times?