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This weekend my family’s going on a camping trip to a lake. I did a quick Google search and the nearest Catholic church is well over an hour’s drive away (not even counting the time it takes to drive the boat out of the campsite to the marina). All together, it would be at least a four hour trip. If I could go by myself, I might be willing to do it, but on this particular trip I would need somebody else to drive me and I don’t want to ask them to do that. There’s almost a zero percent chance they’d be willing to anyways, and I just don’t want to ask.
Can I ask my priest for a dispensation, without 100% confirming that it’s impossible to go? As in, not asking my parents if they would be willing to take me, just assuming they’re not? Even if it were possible to go on the four-hour mass journey by myself, even if I could get out of the lake and drive there without involving my parents, could the length of the journey itself possibly justify a dispensation?
Can I ask my priest for a dispensation, without 100% confirming that it’s impossible to go? As in, not asking my parents if they would be willing to take me, just assuming they’re not? Even if it were possible to go on the four-hour mass journey by myself, even if I could get out of the lake and drive there without involving my parents, could the length of the journey itself possibly justify a dispensation?