Has anyone been to or attended University Mass?

[catholicbball17]

My college has a Newman Club. It is rather small club (6 or 7 usual members including me, nearly all are extremely pro-life ) but we usually have a crowd of 50-80 people at Mass on Sunday nights. The masses are not too extreme altho we don’t kneel due to a lack of kneelers on the chairs, we have a TV to show the words for the Mass such as the Readings, the Psalm, the hymns, and some of the parts of Mass. Our priests are not too funky although one has a facebook and posts his homilies on it. Another priest who usually does Mass for us is the Diocese Vocations director and is very conservative in how he says Mass as well as bringing his own Chalice. I almost forgot to mention that both priests sometimes do iHomily, or giving the Homily by reading it off an iPad instead of paper. And this is in a very liberal part of Calfornia.

 

[Ohana]

From past experience I associate youth Masses with banal music and priests trying to act hip rather than reverent. I’d typically stay away and just find a Mass that’s well-celebrated.

Well sometimes that is a matter of life stage. Even young adults may not like the same approach as young- middle teens. In our parish, the teen Mass music was basically a canting choir with instrumentation like a rock band. The singing was very professional. It was pretty exciting and joyful, and I am in my 70’s.

 

[maryjk]

From past experience I associate youth Masses with banal music and priests trying to act hip rather than reverent. I’d typically stay away and just find a Mass that’s well-celebrated.

I really feel sorry for people that have to search so hard to find a reverent Mass.

 

[smndtupidisaftr]

I really feel sorry for people that have to search so hard to find a reverent Mass.

That’s Los Angeles for you.

There are good parishes out here and I thank God for them, but they are definitely the exception rather than the norm.

 

[smndtupidisaftr]

Well sometimes that is a matter of life stage. Even young adults may not like the same approach as young- middle teens. In our parish, the teen Mass music was basically a canting choir with instrumentation like a rock band. The singing was very professional. It was pretty exciting and joyful, and I am in my 70’s.

Even as a teenager I was off-put by that kind of music.

 

[smndtupidisaftr]

My college has a Newman Club. It is rather small club (6 or 7 usual members including me, nearly all are extremely pro-life ) but we usually have a crowd of 50-80 people at Mass on Sunday nights. The masses are not too extreme** altho we don’t kneel due to a lack of kneelers** on the chairs, we have a TV to show the words for the Mass such as the Readings, the Psalm, the hymns, and some of the parts of Mass. Our priests are not too funky although one has a facebook and posts his homilies on it. Another priest who usually does Mass for us is the Diocese Vocations director and is very conservative in how he says Mass as well as bringing his own Chalice. I almost forgot to mention that both priests sometimes do iHomily, or giving the Homily by reading it off an iPad instead of paper. And this is in a very liberal part of Calfornia.

Oh boy, you mean this Newman Center? I’ve heard bad things about it.

youtube.com/watch?v=UJ5KbCuox3g

By the way, the bold and underlined is a very serious issue and needs to be rectified. I would suggest, if going to Mass there, that you kneel anyway. Would you not kneel before Jesus if there was no kneeler? Then why not kneel before Jesus in the Eucharist?