Does watching mass on TV meat your obligation?

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Karl Keating:
It neither meets it nor meats it.
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Hi, Karl,

It does if you’re bedridden/shut-in, doesn’t it? I think your answer is too cut and dried, here.
–Ann
 
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Sparky:
Hi, Karl,

It does if you’re bedridden/shut-in, doesn’t it? I think your answer is too cut and dried, here.
–Ann
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Ann,

If you are bedridden/shut-in there is no obligation and, thus, nothing to meet. His answer is correct, although perhaps a bit terse.

Deacon Ed
 
Ian McClave:
Unless----as i understand it---- you are sick, too weak or elderly to go to Mass, or in the event that you work on Sat vigil or Sunday Mass times in a profession which is good in itself (Doctor, nursing, or any good job that requires missing Mass on pains of losing the job…etc).
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I believe this is true, but I seem to remember the Church strongly recommending that a person in this position choose another day of the week to treat as Sunday - i.e., attend Mass, no shopping, limit housework. If you have a job where you work long hours 7 days a week, you should probably find a new line of work. That, I believe is sinful behavior. Being of this world and making no time whatsoever for God.
 
One does not “choose” another day on which to fulfill one’s obligation. The Church sets the rules, and the exceptions. It may be that some individual, perhaps one even in a position of authority, taught that, but the Church doesn’t.

And most people don’t have a job 7 days a week; but many do have jobs in which it is mandatory that they be there on the weekend. And given that in larger cities, one often can find Masses from the proper time on Saturday until later in the evening on Sunday, one can usually manage to get to Mass. Not conveniently, necessarily, but manage.
 
I came to this site originally to ask that same question about being exempt from attending Mass after 65. I remember seeing that when I was growing up, At that time I didn’t think I’d ever get to be 65! I’ve been a life long Catholic and find that the Church often “forgets” older rulings. judybb46
 
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I came to this site originally to ask that same question about being exempt from attending Mass after 65. I remember seeing that when I was growing up, At that time I didn’t think I’d ever get to be 65! I’ve been a life long Catholic and find that the Church often “forgets” older rulings. judybb46
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There has never, never, been such a ruling. If someone told you there was, it was the product or their own imagination!
 
Ric said:
Does watching mass on TV meat your obligation?
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I heard a priest say it this way:

TV mass no more meets your Sunday obligation for Mass than watching a family eat dinner on TV meets your need for food.

Lorrie
 
Yes, I do watch Mass on TV on EWTN, but I still go to Mass in person. If a person is injured or ill to the point where they cannot make it to Mass, and they can sit in bed to watch TV, Mass is available on TV but still I would that someone would arrange for a priest ahead of time to at least bring them (or a family member does it for them) Holy Communion (and maybe read them some scripture, arrange for Confession etc to the home or hospital / nursing home.
 
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