Benefits of Going to Daily Mass

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My friend just started going to daily Mass once a week and I plan on going with her tomorrow.
Who here goes? How often do you go? What benefits have you noticed since you started going?
 
We go to Mass simply to worship God.

thats the benefit. praising God.
 
I attended daily mass on my lunch hour for a couple years. I greatly enjoyed it, and I came to look forward to the break in my day to just focus on God.

Since I relocated, I haven’t been able to go daily anymore, but I would love to.
 
I try to go once or twice during each week. I’d like to go daily but there’s not much variety in the weekday Mass times and as a working person it is sometimes hard to find a Mass that realistically works with my schedule, taking things such as traffic into account. I’m hoping to work more on this when I do the Nineveh 90 program where daily Mass is strongly encouraged.

On the days I do get there, I feel I get the following benefits:
  • Grace of spending time with the Real Presence of Jesus and taking Him into my heart through receiving Communion. Also an extra blessing from the priest at the end of the Mass.
  • The Communion can help fulfill a requirement for an extra plenary indulgence for something like saying the Rosary in the church before or after Mass. (I don’t know if I actually qualify the plenary despite my best efforts to check off all the requirements, because it requires interior detachment from all sin and I am not sure if I’m “detached” enough, but I figure if I at least make the effort to fulfill the plenary requirements, I probably get more spiritual benefit than if I did not make the effort.)
  • The weekday readings, feasts and homilies are often thought-provoking.
  • Praying with other people helps connect me to others and also may be more effective than just praying alone. I do pray alone too but I am cognizant of Jesus saying “where 2 or 3 are gathered in My name then I am there too.”
  • A feeling of having done something good for your soul/ spirituality for the day - sort of like the feeling after an exercise session that you accomplished doing something good for your body/ health.
 
When I am at school, I sacristan once a week at one of the daily Masses on campus. I find it very fulfilling to go to Mass an extra day of the week. It’s just something about it - it’s kind of hard to explain, but I really enjoy knowing that a small niche community is gathering together to glorify the Lord and to enter into Communion with Jesus through the Eucharist out of the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Matthew Kelly talk about the special nature of going to Mass during the week in his latest book, Resisting Happiness.

Even when I don’t go to Mass however, I make sure to read the daily readings every day with Magnificat or through the USCCB, which e-mails me the daily readings every morning. In this way, I can engage with the Word of God and be reminded of the teachings that God has brought down to us in Scripture, rather than just once a week.

May God bless you and your friend as you engage with daily Mass! 🙂
 
I go to weekday Mass on average once a week. I volunteer as an assistant librarian in the library of the abbey I’m associated with as oblate. On the same day (usually Wednesdays), I also go to Terce, Sext, None and Vespers (Vigils and Lauds at home before leaving, Compline before bed also at home).

It’s in Gregorian chant as well 😃 (Ordinary Form).

Today exceptionally I was giving a monk a lift into the city. I went to Lauds, and then he celebrated a private mass with me in the abbot’s private chapel. He did the OF, entirely in Latin. I read the first reading, responsorial psalm and sang the alleluia all in Latin! Plus all the responses of course. Then we left for the city.
 
During Lent, I usually go 4 times during the week. Now that summer is here, I average 2-3 weekday masses. For those who find Sunday masses noisy, distracting and not enough time for prayer, I recommend attending extra weekday masses. Once I started attending during the week, I found I was more patient on Sundays. Mass is so pleasant during the week, I could put up with any negatives on Sunday.

I enjoy weekday masses because it is **not **an obligation. The people that are there all want to be there. Everyone sings when the priest announces the hymn. In the calm and quiet, it is easier to feel closer to God. It is nice to have the gospel readings continue through the week and have the priest connect them.

For me, to be able to receive our Lord daily is wonderful. Our mass is at noon. It is a beautiful thing to look forward to all morning. It is refreshing and inspiring for the rest of the day.
 
I’m a daily Mass goer, and I attend during lunch break from work. I’m blessed to have a chapel nearby with daily Mass. There are a lot of benefits. I go to Mass for all forms of prayer, ACTS. Adoration, contrition, thanksgiving, supplication. The last one, I pray for myself and intercede for the needs of others. I’ve been going for I think a decade now? Back to the benefits. I have a lot of shortcomings, and still struggle with them. That said, I noticed that I’m calmer, happier, less anxious than before. I still experience anger, anxiety, fear, annoyance, worry, but I notice and feel that it has greatly improved, interiorly.
 
I have gone to daily mass everyday for the last year and a half. I go to a parish during the week near work (6:15 am before work) and on my days off, I go to my home parish.
At daily mass on my days off, I used to think that when I retire, some day I would be fortunate to go everyday like all the retirees I see at mass. But, then I would tell myself, “Don’t try to fast-forward your life; it goes quick enough!”
Shortly after, I was elated to hear about the 6:15 a couple blocks from work! See, I didn’t need to wait for retirement! Ok, so I have to sacrifice some sleep, but the benefits far outweigh the snooze-time!
How? In the following ways:
I initially went to pray for my dad who was being treated for two types of Cancer; of course I desired that he be cured, but not knowing if it was God’s will, I mainly prayed that God would grant him strength, patience, and perseverance for his journey (He is currently Cancer-free and has been a trooper the whole way!!), I use this time to pray for any intentions as well as to give thanks to God for His blessings, I feel that daily mass has given me more empathy and compassion for others as well as patience; You learn to pick your battles (When someone cuts in front of you in line, if it’s that important for them to be first, “Go”, no anger, no aggrevation!!) Striving to remain in a state of grace/friendship with Christ (awareness of my sin and frequent Reconciliation) Partaking in the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, desiring and seeking a deeper relationship with Him, the desire to do Corporal Works of Mercy; your life simply cannot remain as it was, An inner peace and joy even in times of trouble that comes from placing your complete trust in Christ our Saviour! (Other people will notice this within you) 🙂

For me, it is an awesome start to my day! On the rare occasion that I miss a day, things feel off!
I hope you will reap many benefits!
Peace and all good! 👍
 
ok; i’ll try

attending daily mass increases your ability to avoid sin; you can receive the eucharist daily,

you start the day w/hearing the gospel; and perhaps your troubles seem somewhat less compared to the greater glory we are promised if we can just somehow survive this brief trial on this planet

read: “Lamb’s Supper” by Dr Scott Hahn
 
One time I was looking for a possible wife on Catholicmatch.com. One special thing that attracted me to the woman I married was the fact that she went to daily mass. I thought that this was a great statement about her character as a Catholic.
 
I love daily Mass and go as often as possible. Was going 6 or 7 days a week when I was between jobs but since I started at a new job recently (thank you St. Joseph), I’m try to go at least 3x a week. I go for the reasons the others have mentioned. That closeness with God is a beautiful source of grace.
 
3 days a week.
It’s wonderful, because the homilies tend to be much more relaxed, thoughtful, The Mass is relatively quiet, Father allows us to add our own prayer intentions, and there’s a nice little group of individuals that go each day and you form a tiny community of sorts. It makes me smile. Since I am the new Music, Liturgy, and RCIA Director there, I tend to be very busy on Sundays…and feel rushed sometimes. Daily Mass is a nice break from the clamor, if you will, of the Sunday “masses” at Mass.
 
Faith1960 said:
My friend just started going to daily Mass once a week and I plan on going with her tomorrow.
Who here goes? How often do you go? What benefits have you noticed since you started going?
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I started going to daily Mass for Lent, over 40 years ago and haven’t stopped since. I started out praying for my husband who suffered from heart trouble and did not practice his faith. He died 7 years later in the faith and having received the Sacraments. For awhile it seemed he even got more antagonistic and I talked to Father about it and he said "Oh please don’t give up. The devil is fighting for his soul, trust God. and I did and do. After Lent was over, I found I couldn’t stop going to daily Mass. and many times I would be the only person there besides Father. That was in the 70’s. Gradually the daily Mass people have grown to about 75. I was the only person I could see saying the Rosary and now so many do. I have been so happy to see it growing. To be present at the moment of the most amazing Miracle on earth is beyond description. I think to many Catholics take their faith for granted and don’t really appreciate it’s wonder and beauty. I imagine there are so many who could attend daily Mass but just don’t and they do not know what they are missing. We will not know till we get to Heaven what attending daily Mass has done for us, our families and our country. We so desperately need those prayers. God Bless, Memaw
 
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We will not know till we get to Heaven what attending daily Mass has done for us, our families and our country. We so desperately need those prayers. God Bless, Memaw
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Memaw said:
I started going to daily Mass for Lent, over 40 years ago and haven’t stopped since. I started out praying for my husband who suffered from heart trouble and did not practice his faith. He died 7 years later in the faith and having received the Sacraments. For awhile it seemed he even got more antagonistic and I talked to Father about it and he said "Oh please don’t give up. The devil is fighting for his soul, trust God. and I did and do. After Lent was over, I found I couldn’t stop going to daily Mass. and many times I would be the only person there besides Father. That was in the 70’s. Gradually the daily Mass people have grown to about 75. I was the only person I could see saying the Rosary and now so many do. I have been so happy to see it growing. To be present at the moment of the most amazing Miracle on earth is beyond description. I think to many Catholics take their faith for granted and don’t really appreciate it’s wonder and beauty. I imagine there are so many who could attend daily Mass but just don’t and they do not know what they are missing. We will not know till we get to Heaven what attending daily Mass has done for us, our families and our country. We so desperately need those prayers. God Bless, Memaw
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Thanks for sharing.
 
Ash Wednesday 2016, I went to the morning Mass and saw Benediction for the first time. It was so beautiful that I went the next Wednesday, and then I started going most Wednesdays. And Adoration was so attractive… So I started going to daily Mass, or at least dropping in to pray, whenever I could rationalize it, trying to remain “reasonable” for the sake of my non-Catholic husband and the cost of gas (60 miles round trip is two gallons!). About a year ago I stopped trying to be reasonable and started going every day. I now search out churches when I go out of town, and organize my time away around available Masses. It is my first priority.

This at first freaked out my Protestant husband, and then I started asking him questions that were coming up and freaked him out even more, and then he started investigating Catholicism, and then he started coming to adoration with me once a month. He’s not there yet, but I am full of hope for him. He’s hiking in Ecuador right now, and last Saturday ended our Skype conversation so he could go to Mass! Of course Ecuador doesn’t have a whole lot of Protestant churches, but first of all, his family norm is to skip church while on vacation. And in a hiking context, going to church requires real effort. Secondly, he’s acclimated to the idea of a Saturday vigil. He even looked for one. Third, he’s comfortable enough with Mass to go voluntarily, and hear it in a language he barely speaks!

More everyday benefits…
Daily Eucharist.
Daily adoration.
(Daily prayer in both its communal and private forms. )
I get out of the house every day, which doesn’t feel like a benefit, but I’m sure most people would say it is.
If I can’t receive Communion for a day or two for some reason, it’s still painful enough to make me cry but I can be more patient with myself, because I know I’m definitely making the effort, and I have so many opportunities built into my week.
I get to hear a lot of homilies, which means I get to know God and my pastor a little better.
I get to hear the readings in their full cycles.
I get to start my day (7:30a) with God, in quiet. Even the bad days go *so much better *this way! I am becoming a much calmer person. My repertoire of standard responses to difficulties is also changing.
 
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