Does this meet the obligation?

[Kielbasi]

When I was a kid, the masses were scheduled fairly close together, hourly on Sunday morning at the local church where my family sometimes attended.

One of my neighbors got to mass early, in fact sufficiently early that the previous mass was still being said when she arrived. She got there early because of her parking space and if she got their, e.g., at the Angus Dei, she left when the following mass reached that same point.

She heard a whole mass each week, but not in the usual way.

Do you think this is copasetic?

 

[GoLatin]

Kielbasi:

When I was a kid, the masses were scheduled fairly close together, hourly on Sunday morning at the local church where my family sometimes attended.

One of my neighbors got to mass early, in fact sufficiently early that the previous mass was still being said when she arrived. She got there early because of her parking space and if she got their, e.g., at the Angus Dei, she left when the following mass reached that same point.

She heard a whole mass each week, but not in the usual way.

Do you think this is copasetic?

I am not sure if your neighbour’s practise fulfilled her obligation, but if it were me, I would have stayed for the entirety of the second Mass!

Interestingly, Pope Benedict XVI’s father, Joseph Ratzinger senior, typically heard THREE Masses each Sunday!:clapping:

 

[mosher]

No it is not kosher. It is another example of Western (mostly American) “zero sum” thinking and “box checking” when it comes to the faith.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

Kielbasi:

When I was a kid, the masses were scheduled fairly close together, hourly on Sunday morning at the local church where my family sometimes attended.

One of my neighbors got to mass early, in fact sufficiently early that the previous mass was still being said when she arrived. She got there early because of her parking space and if she got their, e.g., at the Angus Dei, she left when the following mass reached that same point.

She heard a whole mass each week, but not in the usual way.

Do you think this is copasetic?

A Mass begins with the sign of the cross and ends with the final blessing. One cannot say that they participate in a complete Mass by participating in last part of one and the beginning part of another.

 

[tom.wineman]

Br. Rich SFO:

A Mass begins with the sign of the cross and ends with the final blessing. One cannot say that they participate in a complete Mass by participating in last part of one and the beginning part of another.

Exactly. The “this is where I came” mind set of the movies doesn’t apply to the Mass.