Do you leave Mass refreshed and renewed?

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Most of the time I do. I always feel refreshed and renewed after the TLM. When it comes to the NO it really depends on the parish. With some parishes even when there are no specific liturgical abuses the Mass just seems really ā€˜tackyā€™.

James
 
Sometimes it takes some effort.

It seems like the music nowadays is so limp. It doesnā€™t challenge you to anyhting more than ā€œrecognizing the God within youā€. It speaks about vague generalities that make you feel content about who you are (donā€™t want to feel like we have some changing to do, now do we?). And besides all of that, it sounds like cheesy background music to a poorly-scripted movie - like itā€™s supposed to ellicit all sorts of emotions from us. BLECH!!

Some of my buddies and I got so sick and tired of it that we started a menā€™s chant group. Our website is www.brazoschant.org
 
šŸ˜ƒ **I always manage to get something out of every mass service, if not in the Holy Gospels, then the Homily. It sometime feels like the Mass was designed especially for me šŸ‘ **
 
Yes! I have really tried in the past year to focus intently on every word of the Mass.

It is humbling & powerful to be in the true presence of the Father, the Son, & the Holy Spirit every Sunday. :bowdown:

God Bless,
M
 
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Of course, by faith it is so. But sometimes my feelings arenā€™t on the bandwagon.

Being renewed and feeling so are two different things, and you asked about being renewed, I think.
 
I do feel refreshed and renewed, but if itā€™s a morning mass after I worked my 9 pm to 5:30 am shift, I will still need to go to sleep not long after leaving mass.
 
YES!!!

Especially on Easter and Christmas and most especially if the Divine Liturgy was in OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC!!!

I come out COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY RECHARGED and ready to take on the world!!!
 
I donā€™t know 'bout uplifting, as Iā€™m usually crying after communionā€¦I canā€™t seem to help itā€¦
 
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I donā€™t know 'bout uplifting, as Iā€™m usually crying after communionā€¦I canā€™t seem to help itā€¦
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I am always blessed and I cry tears of loving joy and humble worship during the consecration and Eucharist. I love the response of St. Thomas, as my signature shows.

BTWā€¦I have yet to participate in a Latin Mass. To me it doesnā€™t matter. What DOES matter is who is there at the Consecration.

Pax vobiscum,
 
Usually no. As much as I like the work done by the Friars at my current location, the liberal Masses which bear more resemblance to a Gospell Protestant service, make my eyes water with frustration. Like singing We Shall Over Come One Day at Sunday service; or playing jazz music during what is supposed to be a very solemn event or when the Priest stops in mid-service to announce different ministries and how much they cost and please give generously to fundraising efforts ect. etc. which should be done AFTER the Mass has ended. I am distracted as how to avoid shaking hands instead of concentrating on the beauty of the service. So Iā€™ve been turning the other cheek at every Sunday service for awhile now.
 
Yes I always leave mass refreshed and renewed. Going to mass is a precious thing for me. It strengthens my relationship with God every single time.

For me, mass gives me fortification to face the rest of my just begun week. It gives me the energy to keep plugging along eager to share my faith!! I think I am going to work on going to daily mass a couple of times a week as well. If a Sunday mass can power me up for a full week, imagine what multiple masses will do . . . šŸ˜ƒ šŸ˜› Watch out, here I come!!!
 
Unfortunately, I do not. I am ALWAYS overcome with the divinity of the Eucharist , and it saddens me to see it treated irreverently, by both music setting and lay ministry.

I ofttimes leave Mass angry, partly because of the distortion of the Mass to make laity ā€œmore involvedā€ which leads to dis-respect for the Body and Blood; but moreso because I am powerless to stop it. šŸ˜¦
 
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šŸ˜ƒ **I always manage to get something out of every mass service, if not in the Holy Gospels, then the Homily. It sometime feels like the Mass was designed especially for me šŸ‘ **
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I agree, Chelle. Today, especially, it seemed that the readings and the homily were there just for me. I have been struggling with anger and bitterness this past week (over really stupid things, now that I look back on them!), and so to go into Mass today and hear the readings on not being unforgiving, angry and bitter really hit home. It was not really the message I wanted to hear, but it certainly was the one I NEEDED to hear. Being able to put those things that I was angry over into perspective did help me to feel as though a dark cloud has been lifted from me.
 
What I feel doesnā€™t count. It is not necessarily about feelings. It is about what actually occurs at Mass that is the important factor. I am nothing compared to Jesus coming among us and in us in the form of bread and wine, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. How I feel is immaterial to the action at hand.

But yes- that usually leaves me feeling pretty good, or comforted, or consoledā€¦
 
Since I turned to our parishā€™s noontime mass, I have felt refreshed and renewed. The family and I formely went to the ā€œFamily Massā€ which was too ā€œliberalā€ for me. Plus with all the litle children howling (which is not a bad thing - donā€™t come down on me! - for I do love seeing children in church), it was difficult to concentrate.

But the noon mass has excellent organ music and a choir that is almost - do I dare say this? - Anglican in their sound! The one thing I miss since embracing the Roman Catholic Church is decent church music, which is in abundance in the Anglican/Episcopal churches. So it is good to see it at this mass. Plus the priest who does the mass most often is more traditional than the well-meaing but rather liberal pastor.
 
Always! Some masses are conducted better than others, of course, but I find that there is always something in the liturgy of the Word that touches me. And communion always touches and renews meā€¦ it is life!

Pete
 
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What I feel doesnā€™t count. It is not necessarily about feelings. It is about what actually occurs at Mass that is the important factor. I am nothing compared to Jesus coming among us and in us in the form of bread and wine, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. How I feel is immaterial to the action at hand.
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Perfect answer. I have so many friends on both sides of the spectrum that say ā€œI donā€™t get anything out of the Massā€ for this reason or that. This is not why we go to Mass. It doesnā€™t matter what we get out of it. We are there to worship God not for Him, the priest, the laity, etc. feel good.
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