Of course you can go camping! But wouldn’t you check first with your spouse about your intention? What if it was on a weekday; wouldn’t you check it first with your boss?
I think the point is God created rational beings with reasoning skills because he didn’t want robots that have to ask before doing everything. Priests are busy people, it would be an improper use of their time to bother them with questions you should be able to answer on your own. Going camping is one of those decisions.
As long as this is not a common thing, like every other weekend. I see no problem if you have looked for a possible way to attend Mass and there just is not any Catholic churches near by or on the way back if it’s on Sunday or Sunday evening.
Yes, God did create us rational beings with reasoning skills. We know that we have a serious obligation to God to worship Him on Sunday. The Church has determined that the way we do this is by going to Mass. Missing Mass without a good reason - illness, caring for a child, etc. - is a mortal sin.
But that’s the problem. Once you skip a Sunday Mass to do anything someone else asks you, then you are expected to do so more frequently in the future. There is such a sin of scandal that also may exist here. I don’t take to not keeping the Sabbath holy very lightly for it can easily become a bad habit.
by a few hours and make it to Sunday Mass or two, leave early on Sunday for Mass and then return to the campsite. Unless you are going to someplace exceptionally remote you should be able to do this. It may be a bit of a sacrifice for you but nothing really serious.I completely agree!.. especially about the dispensation.This thread shows just how far we have regressed in our understanding of God and our obligations to Him. It seems all about not offending ones friends or family and gives no thought at all to offending God by not attending Mass on a Sunday, which is still required if I am not mistaken. It places ones personal recreation before ones obligation to God, which I really don’t think is a good thing to do.
I would make the following suggestion as old fashioned and out of touch with modern sensibilities as it may be. One either cut the camping trip short
I believe that receiving dispensation from a Priest to miss Mass is something to be used for extreme circumstances not for a camping trip which is really kind of trivial in the scheme of things.
Wow, regressed understanding of God and our obligations of Him . . .This thread shows just how far we have regressed in our understanding of God and our obligations to Him. It seems all about not offending ones friends or family and gives no thought at all to offending God by not attending Mass on a Sunday, which is still required if I am not mistaken. It places ones personal recreation before ones obligation to God, which I really don’t think is a good thing to do.
I would make the following suggestion as old fashioned and out of touch with modern sensibilities as it may be. One either cut the camping trip short
I believe that receiving dispensation from a Priest to miss Mass is something to be used for extreme circumstances not for a camping trip which is really kind of trivial in the scheme of things.
My priest gave my family and other families in our camping group (all faithful Catholics), a dispensation. No one was trying to “get out” of Mass.
Not an accusation at all. It always amazes me that people will look for ways to escape the confines of the minimum obligations that the Church places upon us. I think it wise to remember that God has historically, all through scriptures had some pretty high expectations for us, his creations. Belief in God does not end with saying I believe. No it entails a good bit more than that