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uuu2me
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It seems like going to daily mass is addictive
Do you feel guilty when you miss mass?
It it addictive?
Do you feel guilty when you miss mass?
It it addictive?
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OraLabora
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No. Only if I miss Sunday Mass.
I do go to weekday Mass, but only once a week, in a monastery where I volunteer one day a week. Otherwise it is too impractical for me to attend daily Mass.
However I pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily, and while I don’t feel guilty if I have to miss an Office, I do feel as if something is missing in my day.
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Bluebright
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I find daily mass addictive too, if you can call it that… 
Addictive has a negative connotation whereas, it’s more positive. I do go daily and seldom miss a day
I miss it if I can’t go but don’t feel guilty…it’s more I crave it. I went away house sitting recently and felt a sort of ache after 2 days (I watched mass online from my church one of the days) and then I thought, doh! I can just go to daily mass here, so I did, problem solved. I do organise my life around going to it though, so if I am meeting people for coffee or some non important stuff, then they can wait til after mass. But if it’s a long trip to see my nephew, visit my parents, doctor etc and I can’t make it to mass first then I go see family and get back to mass the next day. It’s sort of a healthy balance I’d say. But I definitely find the more I go, the more I want to go.
Addictive has a negative connotation whereas, it’s more positive. I do go daily and seldom miss a dayI miss it if I can’t go but don’t feel guilty…it’s more I crave it. I went away house sitting recently and felt a sort of ache after 2 days (I watched mass online from my church one of the days) and then I thought, doh! I can just go to daily mass here, so I did, problem solved. I do organise my life around going to it though, so if I am meeting people for coffee or some non important stuff, then they can wait til after mass. But if it’s a long trip to see my nephew, visit my parents, doctor etc and I can’t make it to mass first then I go see family and get back to mass the next day. It’s sort of a healthy balance I’d say. But I definitely find the more I go, the more I want to go.
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tafan
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I won’t say it is addictive. I will say, that if I have been going to daily mass for a while (and sometimes my schedule seems to get in the way), I do feel guilty about missing mass.
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Crusaderbear
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I’d say it’s become a great social magnet. I only attend the Friday daily service, but it’s always the same group of people, the sermons are much more personal and more of a bible study than a devotional service. Yep, I like it and try not to miss!
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PluniaZ
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I find daily Mass to be the best way to stay deeply rooted in the faith.
But I haven’t been going in recent weeks …
But I haven’t been going in recent weeks …
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LPS
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I try to go at least once a week and usually make it twice. And yes … I miss it greatly on days I’m not able to go. It is such a gift and a blessing!
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DebChris
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Running is addictive. Exercise is addictive. They are considered healthy physical habits that become part of a person’s daily routine. The person who has developed the healthy routine getting up in the morning and going for a morning run feels as if something is missing if the routine is disturbed.
Daily Mass allows an individual to be nourished every day by Word and Sacrament. Many of us do not have access to this precious gift. St. Pope Paul VI called the Mass “the most perfect form of prayer!” What is prayer, but the lifting up of hearts and minds to God. St. Paul tells us to pray unceasingly. If I am able to attend Mass, I am able to think about God more throughout the day.
St. Padre Pio said, “Every holy Mass heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know. It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the holy Sacrifice of the Mass.”
Daily Mass allows an individual to be nourished every day by Word and Sacrament. Many of us do not have access to this precious gift. St. Pope Paul VI called the Mass “the most perfect form of prayer!” What is prayer, but the lifting up of hearts and minds to God. St. Paul tells us to pray unceasingly. If I am able to attend Mass, I am able to think about God more throughout the day.
St. Padre Pio said, “Every holy Mass heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know. It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the holy Sacrifice of the Mass.”
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Onestepahead
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Yes, I really like going to Mass during the week. The same 15-20 people are usually there, and the whole thing has a good atmosphere and I feel more attentive to the sacrifice. Daily Mass is only offered 2 times during the week at my church, and I can usually only make one of those days, but being there just tops up my tank!
Tis_Bearself
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Realistically, I cannot get there every day without disrupting other parts of my daily routine in a bad way. But I do like to go a couple times a week, which is manageable. I’d go every day if I didn’t have a job and other responsibilities wearing me out.
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Usige
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Guilty? No.
Sad? Yes.
The only reason I would feel guilty is if I had the time and choice, but decided to do something frivolous instead (e.g. waste time on CAF instead of go to Mass
)It could be if you are going for the wrong reasons. If you go simply because it makes you feel good it misses the point. If it is not motivated by love of Christ it can turn the focus of Mass into something we get rather than something we give.
That doesn’t mean receiving joy from daily Mass is bad, but look at the Saints that attended mass or adoration everyday even when they felt empty or suffered desolation. They still offered their worship out of love even when they did not feel it reciprocated.
The important question to ask is if you would still go if you don’t get a feeling of joy, peace, euphoria, et cetera. No right or wrong answer, but simply a way to evaluate the motivation for attending.
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Franciscan_Way
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I believe it’s an awesome way to start the day!
I wouldn’t call it guilt, but if I do miss a day, something definitely feels OFF.
I wouldn’t call it guilt, but if I do miss a day, something definitely feels OFF.
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Heather914
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Oh how I would LOVE to go to Daily Mass. However, my job is Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:30, and our daily Mass is at noon (and 35 miles from me) so I am never able to make it.
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psalm90
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I used to be in a groove for attending daily Mass, and the small crowd said the rosary aloud, before the nun got transferred away. This rosary recitation had gone on for about a year, while I was attending. But, when she left, the priest said “we’d” have to ask the people if they wanted to continue with the rosary, but “we” never asked the group and that died out.
The rosary was redeeming in a way, because in the other church in this parish, people were just talking quietly (more or less) before Mass – very distracting to my private rosary prayer.
In a nearby parish, the priest walked in before Mass and asked “everybody” why it was so quiet in there? as if we were SUPPOSED to be talking in the chapel before Mass.
People who cause distractions before, during, and after Mass bother me a lot. For this reason, in particular, and for other reasons (my needing to sleep in), I just dropped going. The people who want to chat and exchange Halloween candy before Mass can have their way.
There was one lady who always read the epistle every day, and another lady who was the “server.” When she brought the extra chalices to the altar, she would carry one of them by putting her thumb INSIDE the chalice with her fingers outside the chalice. That was so disgusting to watch.
(Refer to Cardinal Sarah’s recent book, The Tyrrany of Noise)
The rosary was redeeming in a way, because in the other church in this parish, people were just talking quietly (more or less) before Mass – very distracting to my private rosary prayer.
In a nearby parish, the priest walked in before Mass and asked “everybody” why it was so quiet in there? as if we were SUPPOSED to be talking in the chapel before Mass.
People who cause distractions before, during, and after Mass bother me a lot. For this reason, in particular, and for other reasons (my needing to sleep in), I just dropped going. The people who want to chat and exchange Halloween candy before Mass can have their way.
There was one lady who always read the epistle every day, and another lady who was the “server.” When she brought the extra chalices to the altar, she would carry one of them by putting her thumb INSIDE the chalice with her fingers outside the chalice. That was so disgusting to watch.
(Refer to Cardinal Sarah’s recent book, The Tyrrany of Noise)
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Irishmom2
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I agree that addictive may be the wrong word. Perhaps drawn to mass is a better expression.
It is something I look forward to. It lifts my spirits, it nourishes me. It soothes me. It steadies me. It fills me up when I am empty.
So, if I must miss mass it is more of a disappointment or a loss, than a feeling of guilt.
It is something I look forward to. It lifts my spirits, it nourishes me. It soothes me. It steadies me. It fills me up when I am empty.
So, if I must miss mass it is more of a disappointment or a loss, than a feeling of guilt.
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psalm90
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Whatever else may be going on, I am sure the parish priest is edified by people coming to worship on weekdays.
One priest ended his annual homily about parish finances by switching to the more important topic of spirituality: he said, with some emphasis, where is your spirituality? (i.e. for example, attending daily Mass) There ought to be a lot more people attending daily Mass.
Our cathedral church has a daily noon Mass, which I hope to consider, if my health stabilizes somewhat it’s a 12-mile drive to get there.
One priest ended his annual homily about parish finances by switching to the more important topic of spirituality: he said, with some emphasis, where is your spirituality? (i.e. for example, attending daily Mass) There ought to be a lot more people attending daily Mass.
Our cathedral church has a daily noon Mass, which I hope to consider, if my health stabilizes somewhat it’s a 12-mile drive to get there.
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trek17
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I feel better able to cope with life’s difficulties when I am fortified by daily Mass. It can be tough to find workable time slots on vacation, where unknown traffic patterns can make arrival times hard to guarantee, but getting to visit half a dozen new communities while away from home is quite a blessing personally.
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LPS
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The rosary is said aloud before each daily mass at my church, and it’s very interesting. One person starts it and says the first decade, then someone else picks up the second decade, and continues with a different person leading each decade.
I’ve never been one to say the rosary on my own, but I really do love the way they do it.
By the way, if you want to read another very good book about silence, I highly recommend *Befriending Silence *by Carl McColman.
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