Being potentially unable to goto mass for an extended period of time

[Dahominical]

I will likely spend this up and coming Christmas summer holidays (I’m in the southern hemisphere) sheep shearing (more so wool pressing and handling) which for the uninitiated means working from some 5am till ~4pm, every day of the week. This means no Sunday morning mass. So, I did my due diligence and checked the only conceivable church I could attend doesn’t offer a Saturday evening mass (which I could potentially attend).

Is there any way to fix this, because being unwilling to work on Sundays likely means not working at all.

 

[1ke]

Talk to your pastor about it.

But generally if you are unable to attend mass for a serious reason— and work is a serious reason, you are excused.

 

[Dahominical]

By which you mean, my current local pastor or the rural one in the undisclosed location?

 

[1ke]

Either.

But your current pastor seems more logical as he is accessible.

 

[Roseeurekacross]

Can you get in touch with the Diocesan office of the rural location. Usually the Saturday Vigil Mass is a floating Mass in rural locations. So one week at (for example) the dog on the tucker box mass, the next at the big koala mass, the next at the big pineapple mass.

Start there and see whats offered and where, and what the distance travelling is. Will you be coming back after dark, do locals travel that road after dark or are there too many roos, camels, goats etc.

For example the road between Broken Hill and Silverton no one travels after dark for the wildlife on it.

 

[Sophie111]

For me its well within one’s own mature competence to answer the difficulty following Jesus’s clear common sense advice: the Sabbath is made for man not man for the Sabbath.

If it is not easy to get to Mass on Sunday just make it holy by setting aside some time for God with a Rosary. I prefer before dawn if I cannot sleep or in the early evening outside when its still warm.