Do you know and attend church on the days of obligation?

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Yes. In Canada there are only two: Christmas Day and Mary, Mother of God (New Years Day). As both are stat holidays, there’s absolutely no excuse.
 
The church bulletin highlights them for us here. Tomorrow is All Saints which is a day of obligation here, but I am unable to get to any of the Masses due to work.
 
Yes, my Parish offers one Mass in the evening on the eve & 3 daytime
Masses on the day as well as 1 Mass on the evening of the day.
 
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As often as I can. I work shift work with long hours. I usually can make it. I will make it twice tomorrow because of strange logistics.
 
Yes, so long as it is advertised in the newsletter (times and places). And to help I put a reminder in my work calendar to leave in time. I hope to be at church early enough to pray a chaplet for Holy Souls before mass.
 
Always. I work for our diocesan offices and rather than give us state holidays (like Columbus Day or Presidents’ Day), they give us holy days of obligation as paid holidays. So tomorrow I have the day off, it’s paid, and I get to go to Mass.

My husband, on the other hand, is a baker and still has to wake up super early to go work. 😦 But we will probably go to Mass tomorrow evening so we can go together.
 
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Yes. In Canada there are only two: Christmas Day and Mary, Mother of God (New Years Day). As both are stat holidays, there’s absolutely no excuse.
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Except where I live (southern Quebec), snow and ice storms have and will in the future result in an automatic dispensation on those days. Not as often for you guys on the West Coast but last winter may have been an exception for you!

But otherwise you are right, no excuse other than for the usual reasons (ill, child or elder care, extreme weather, etc.)
 
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Of course!
Well, I don’t think there’s ever an excuse for me personally. Coming from Northern BC originally, last year was still very mild in the scheme of things (even if most Vancouverites freaked out and thought the world was ending! Snow that stays on the ground for more than a few days!).
Interestingly, once every 7 years, we have no obligations beyond the standard Sunday obligation (when Christmas and New Years fall on Sundays)… but conversely, when they fall on a Saturday or Monday, you have two obligations two weekends in a row!
 
Well my middle son lives in Prince George so has a good taste of winter every year!

My wife’s family all live in the Fraser Valley. Snow is something they read about in National Geographic 🙂

Until last year! We still beat you guys though with a 115 cm snowstorm in March.
 
Yes, if you go to regular Sunday Mass then the priest will always announce when a holy day is upcoming. I generally know when they are, but depending on the US diocese you are in, some of them have been moved on occasion to the following Sunday. It’s definitely a diocese-by-diocese thing, I have had the experience of one diocese where I spend time moving the day to the next Sunday and the other one left it on the weekday. I prefer to just go on the weekday, it’s not that big of a hardship for me.
 
Of course! There aren’t that many, and in light of all that God does for me and mine, I think it’s not much to ask that I attend Holy Mass a few extra days out of the year…

I attend happily.
 
Yes I do know them and fully intend to keep them now that I am back in the fold. First one tomorrow.
 
Yes, I know which days are HDOs. I’m the head sacristan and must think about these things well ahead of the actual day. (On Thursday, I’ll start working on Christmas. 😵) It helps that they’re all state holidays where I live…

Yes, I attend Mass on these days. In fact, the vast majority of the time I serve the Mass. 😇
 
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… the vast majority of the time I serve the Mass.
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Same here. I jokingly ask father each morning if he needs me in white or black. White if I serve as a lector or black as a server… Sometimes he asks me what color he should wear; I’m never sure if he’s testing me or just doesn’t want to look in the ordo. 😉

It was funny this morning when I asked him and the deacon what colors we would use for All Souls. One said White or Black and the other said no, White or maybe Red. When I said White, Black or Violet are acceptable they looked at me like I was nuts… they huddled together over the ordo and sheepishly said, “hmm, I guess you’re right.”
 
roger that. unless my car breaks down; i will be there (1930 in my parish) 🙂
 
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