God before shopping?

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Do you feel that God still occupies the first place in your life? Is the final four tournament more important than the Easter Vigil? Has football replaced the Holy Mass? Do you still go out of your way to attend Mass while on vacation? Or, does it matter at all?
 
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Do you feel that God still occupies the first place in your life?
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Yes
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Is the final four tournament more important than the Easter Vigil?
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For most people there are other Masses available on Easter. One is not required to attend the Easte Vigil unless you have no access to Mass on Easter Sunday.
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Has football replaced the Holy Mass?
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No
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Do you still go out of your way to attend Mass while on vacation?
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First, let’s define “go out of your way”.
 
What I have given are just examples. It doesn’t have to be football or vacation. It can be the kid’s soccer game, rainy Sunday morning or anything else. The question is whether you will allow yourself to be inconvenienced in the service of God.
 
Let’s then define “inconvenienced”.

If it is raining and I have to walk for miles to Mass along dangerous roads, I am excused from Mass.

If my kid’s soccer game is on Sunday, I can go to Mass on Saturday evening or Sunday evening.

Not a zero-sum game.
 
Are you asking if I put going to Mass above anything else? I mean the only Sundays we miss Mass involved illness (either mine or the kids) and even then, if I know early enough in the weekend I can find another one to attend, I do.

But you won’t find me at the Easter Vigil any time soon. Easter day Masses count just as much and allow my kids the sleep that they need.

How about you? Do you always put attending Mass first?
 
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This is another thread where I feel you are preaching to the choir. And being a bit nosy.

Without getting into my personal Mass habits, which I prefer to keep between me and God (and he’s fine with them the last I checked), we are not required to attend the Easter Vigil, so there is nothing wrong with a person choosing an Easter Sunday Mass instead of the Vigil. I don’t think my mother ever went to an Easter Vigil Mass in her life; she went on Easter Sunday. My father certainly didn’t go to an Easter Vigil because he hated staying up late for anything.

I also am not following the Final Four, don’t watch much sports, don’t like shopping, and most of my vacations are pilgrimages where a priest is saying Mass almost every day.
 
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Faith, Family and Football. the three "f"s in the order of importance.
 
What is the final four? If you’ve mentioned it as a reason to miss mass it mist be pretty important.
I missed mass a couple of times last year beacuse hubby had cancer and was recovering from surgery I believed it was more important to look after him especially since I had to call an ambulance on a couple of occasions during this time
 
The final four basketball teams in the USA Collegiate basketball tournament.
 
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Basketball is not a reason to miss mass
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No one is saying that it is, but rather that there are plenty of Masses one can attend to meet one’s obligation while still being able to watch sports.

Football and basketball are not played or telecast on Sunday mornings or any other mornings, which is when the vast majority of Masses in USA take place.
 
Unless that is how you support your family, as a player or a referee or working in the stadium or as a coach, etc. Then one would be dispensed from Mass (if you could not reasonably go at another time before/after the game).
 
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Of course it’s not a reason to miss Mass, although in the women’s tournament, Notre Dame was in the Final, and a lot of our parishioners were pretty excited about it.

Thank goodness for TiVo! I’ve been a big fan of the tournament for decades, and I TiVoed several of the games this year to watch when I was actually home. I think a lot of fans do this, so there is no reason to miss Mass. Even if you’re attending a game in person, there is a Mass somewhere that you can get to–I’ve never seen a basketball game played at 6:30 a.m.!
 
Right.

Sunday morning is the time for local real estate shows and peaceful re-runs of “Bob Ross” and his “happy little trees!” (R.I.P. Bob Ross–you’re more beloved than ever!)

My husband usually attends Mass on Saturday evening (since I work many weekends, we can both attend together at that time), and then he spends his Sunday mornings eating a huge bowl of popcorn and watching all the TV shows he TiVoe’d during the week and didn’t have time to watch!
 
Yes, and it’s normally not on Easter… The Final Four is usually weeks before Easter, so I’m not sure why one would skip Easter vigil for the Final 4. I guess I’d be one that would…but we never go to Easter Vigil.

I also get bugged by the whole putting people down for attending kids whatever on Sundays. There’s so many options where if they really wanted to go to Mass that weekend…they would. If their kid didn’t have stuff going on, they’d miss for another reason. The priest here went off on that when we were at a hockey tournament one Sunday morning and it kinda rubbed me the wrong way.
 
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