If you just don’t go to Mass after awhile do you fall out of grace? I can usually only make it Mons and/or Fridays and sometimes that’s inconvenient and I don’t go. Is that falling into sin. In a separate question do these live cams in parishes and places showing the host in a monstrance valid adoration in front of a computer?
josh987654321;11086238:
You need to forget about whether you are sinning or not by missing Mass.
The question is, do you want to go to mass? do you hunger/thirst for it?
If you hunger/thrist for the Mass, even if you do miss it, your not sinning, if you don’t hunger/thrist for the Mass, even if you do go, you will simply be paying lip service, “These people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.” (Isaiah 29:13)
The common response as to why people attend mass is “Because it’s commanded of us” or “Because it’s a sin to miss mass for no valid reason.”
When people miss mass for no valid reason (e.g. they didn’t feel like going), the church teaches us that this is a sin. However Christ does not want people to attend mass out of fear, guilt or by feeling forced to go. Christ wants us to attend mass because we want to, because we love him and want to recieve that enourmous gift where he comes down and feeds us with his body, blood, soul and divinity. We should attend becuase we want to, we hunger/thrist for that encounter of real love with him through the Holy Eucharist.
Christ doesn’t want mass to be some routine that lacks all enthusiasm, he wants it to be another unique and loving encounter with him.
To miss mass for no valid reason is a sin because we have failed to see or placed on such low piority recieveing that enourmous gift of the Holy Eucharist, where Christ comes down and feeds us with his body, blood, soul and divinity, where we experience that encounter of real love with Christ through the Holy Eucharist.
When people say to someone “The Church commands us to go to Mass” or just “Missing mass is a sin.” I believe they have missed the point. They should go because they want to go.
Mark121359 said it best on another thread -
Mark121359:
You have to have that passion for the Faith burning with fire inside you. To me, if you don’t have a deep, deep passion for Christ in your heart beforehand, then even if you do attend Mass, you will likely be just paying lip service and not much more. And this I speak from experience!..“These people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.” Isaiah 29:13
If you do not experience that hunger/thirst for the Mass, if you wish to light that passion, that fire inside you, than please read these two very short books. (They have given me an overwhelming desire for Mass, for his Eucharistic presense).
In Adoration -
loveandmercy.org/Eng-IA-Reg.pdf
The Holy Mass -
loveandmercy.org/Eng-HM-Reg.pdf
For more please go here -
youshallbelieve.com/
God Bless
Thank you for reading
Josh
