Do you ever go to mass 2 times on Sunday?

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Do you ever go to mass 2 times on Sunday?
I know people who do
.just to see if the homoly is different.
 
On Sundays, not unless there was a special reason to do so, and then I wasn’t at the both Masses the whole time. For example, I was helping out in the narthex before/after mass with a ministry sign up.

Typically, when I go to two masses on one day (which is rare), it’s a weekday or Saturday
 
All the time, but not for the reason you cite. I am the Music Director, LIturgist, and RCIA Director. I have to attend many Masses. I will say, in doing so the homily never really varies. It’s the one the priest prepares, and he may change a wording perhaps, but the content remains the same.
 
Same here- Clergy and ‘head servers’/ Masters of Ceremonies often run double and triple shifts on weekends/ Holy Week.
 
I have done but only to help my Sister in Law by managing her children for her when she was pregnant and her husband away.
 
I sometimes will sneak in just to hear a different homily, but just the homily. I’m not fond of going to two masses daily, I would get too restless. One is good for me. 🙂
 
No, I would be a waste to do so. Once you have been to communion any more doesnt make a difference.
 
She is dead so she can not disagree. But the church teaches you only need to go to mass ONCE on Sundays. Not only that you may ONLY take communion Twice on any given day and that is only acceptable under certain circumstances. If you want to go to mass every time its offered, fine. But the church says you have fulfilled your obligation with just one and taking communion.
 
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Not only that you may ONLY take communion Twice on any given day and that is only acceptable under certain circumstances. If you want to go to mass every time its offered, fine. But the church says you have fulfilled your obligation with just one and taking communion.
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  1. you don’t have to receive communion to fulfill your obligation
  2. obligation is the minimum requirement
  3. Anyone may receive communion twice in one day as long as the 2nd time is during mass. For example, if you are visiting a grandparent and an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion comes over with extra hosts, you may not receive communion from them if you already received communion earlier that day.
  4. The mass is the greatest prayer of the Church, it is never a “waste” to attend multiple masses, just like it’s never a waste to pray multiple times a day.
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I would go to Mass 24 hrs a day if I could. On the rare occasion I’ve been blessed to attend 2 Masses on Sunday, there was something special going on during the 2nd Mass that I didn’t want to miss.
 
Yeah have done in the past usually due to an event like first holy communion or baptism of family or friends or similar. Not for the reason stated in the op.
 
The church teaches I need to go to Mass only once a week so it is not theologically in error. If your offended then you must be one of those people easy to offend. too bad.
 
You can’t do so at my parish- Mass is only offered once a day. The parish in the next town over is an hour “behind” us, though, so I could go to them- but the homily would most definitely be different since they’re different pastors.
 
When I was a kid, one of the women from the neighborhood used to get to mass while the previous mass was going on- because she was able to get a prime parking space. So she would hear mass from whenever she arrived, stayed around for the next mass, and was free to leave when the mass progressed to the point.

So, if she arrived at church during the Pater Noster at the 10 a.m mass, she would hear the rest of the mass and then leave during the Pater Noster during the 11 a.m. mass.

The woman attended 2 separate masses, but only one complete mass.
 
There are much better ways to spend time with god that going over and over to mass. Grow a garden and give the extra to a food bank. My wife and I gave hundred of pound of fresh produce to food bank last year.go mow people lawns and donate the money paid to you to a charity. Go help build a house. I can think of hundreds of ways to spend time with God that doesnt have you going to mass more than once a week.
 
When Christmas falls on a Monday. 4th Sunday of Advent and Christmas Eve Mass are the same day.
 
"And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the jar and poured it over his head. But there were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment thus wasted? For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” And they reproached her. But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me. She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying. And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”

You should know better than to suggest that spending more time with Jesus is a waste of time. Do you think He will reward someone who spent that extra time they could have been in another Mass doing community service instead, ahead of someone who desired to spend more time in church, worshipping Him? Both are good things, but don’t dare suggest that someone is spending their time in community service and wasting their time in worship.
 
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I hate to break the bad new to you deacon. Buyt the church teaches YOU ONLY CAN TAKLE COMMUNION TWICE IN A DAY. You only go to mass to take communion. If you want to go every mass at every day of the year and go to any mass you can get to, knnock yourself out Deacon. But you get no more out of it than the first one you attended. PERIOD. Once you take communion, you are DONE. If you can show me anywhere the church teaches going to more than one mass a day( with some exception such as Christmas being on a sunday) that you are a better catholic. Show me and I’ll admit that I am wrong. Good luck. Now you can go back to calling me names instead of showing proof. BTW, it a discussion board not a grammar test. It would take more than you to offend me.
 
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