Catholic Mass

[Dinaotero]

We are teaching a pre cana class at our Parish. What resourse can we use when our couples say “they cant attend mass every sunday?”

 

[1ke]

What do you mean by resources?

The Catechism is quite clear regarding one’s obligation to attend Mass. If they miss Mass they should go to Confession at the earliest opportunity. Perhaps start with the reading from the bible of Jesus’s agony in the garden. The Apostles fell asleep and Jesus asked, “Could you not wait one hour with me?” Can we not give one hour to God?

Resources I would consider giving them would be a print out of the parish listing/mass times for your area from www.masstimes.org or your local diocesan website. Inform them that if a particular parish’s Mass times are not working with their schedule they should go to a nearby parish.

These are adults, and it is unlikely that you will have a big influence on them in this regard if they did not receive proper formation from their parents and have so little love for Christ that they would refuse to visit him for one hour.

 

[Em_in_FL]

The Catechism of the Catholic Church should be one of your major teaching resources…

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The Church obliges the faithful to take part in the Divine Liturgy on Sundays and feast days and, prepared by the sacrament of Reconciliation, to receive the Eucharist at least once a year, if possible during the Easter season.224 But the Church strongly encourages the faithful to receive the holy Eucharist on Sundays and feast days, or more often still, even daily.

There is no excuse for missing an obligation.

And not so much just an obligation… but a GIFT! The Eucharist is something we should be looking forward to and wishing we could receive more often!

 

[Rolltide]

We are teaching a pre cana class at our Parish. What resourse can we use when our couples say “they cant attend mass every sunday?”

Just refer them to the Saturday evening vigil Mass!

 

[puzzleannie]

We are teaching a pre cana class at our Parish. What resourse can we use when our couples say “they cant attend mass every sunday?”

you can go over the reasons why it might be possible to miss Mass without sin–necessary work, illness, caring for infant or sick person, severe weather that makes travel hazardous etc. Then you simply repeat what you have already taught from catechism and scripture, that the commandments to honor and worship God are of the highest order and the type of worship–Mass and the Eucharist–ordained by Christ, and the seriousness of deliberately missing this communal worship and the implications of rejecting this gift.

 

[dconklin]

There is no excuse for missing an obligation.

And not so much just an obligation… but a GIFT! The Eucharist is something we should be looking forward to and wishing we could receive more often!

There are valid excuses like illness. There are also weak excuses that need to be overcome.

 

[Em_in_FL]

There are valid excuses like illness. There are also weak excuses that need to be overcome.

True… sorry, I didn’t mean to misrepresent that.

I was reacting to the OP’s insinuation that these engaged couples are missing Mass without good reason.