Have you ever walked out of Mass?

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roadsend said:
It didn’t help that the Easter before we had been “treated” to a piano rendition of Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail after the recessional as we were leaving church.
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If I didn’t laugh, I might cry.
 
constantconvert said:
If I didn’t laugh, I might cry.
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Yup, but from what I have seen a lot of the “trained” music folks out there just don’t get it. I feel sorry for some of the music folks themselves. They are hard working and often mean well, but they can’t always help the way they were brought up. However, I am less than thrilled with the folks who trained them and the church authorities, who have allowed our music to degenerate so badly. They know or should know better.
 
Gordon_Sims said:
Not counting health or kid issues (and those have been rare) I don’t believe I’ve ever walked out on Mass. I’ve seen people walk out a couple times. We have a local priest who’s very traditional & conservative and he doesn’t pull any punches in his homilies. I’ve been at a couple Masses where one or two people walked out because he was speaking out against abortion & contraception, but I’ve heard from other people who have seen as many as a couple dozen people leave in the middle of one of his homilies. To be clear, he’s preaching valid, traditional Catholic dogma, yet the people in his parish get so upset at hearing it that they leave.
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God bless him. A little bit of John 6:66 in that parish, huh?
 
anp1215 said:
Before I was received into the Church, sometimes I would leave when they began distributing Communion.
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That actually brings up a question for me. I am a convert, since 2009. Now, I haven’t gone to confession since my first one, so I never receive communion at Mass. I usually just leave before that whole part of the Mass, because that’s how we did it in RCIA (since we couldn’t take communion, there was no point being there.) Is this a valid thing to do, IE leave after the “Mass of the Catechumens”?
 
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theology101 said:
That actually brings up a question for me. I am a convert, since 2009. Now, I haven’t gone to confession since my first one, so I never receive communion at Mass. I usually just leave before that whole part of the Mass, because that’s how we did it in RCIA (since we couldn’t take communion, there was no point being there.) Is this a valid thing to do, IE leave after the “Mass of the Catechumens”?
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You should stay for the entire Mass.
 
theology101 said:
That actually brings up a question for me. I am a convert, since 2009. Now, I haven’t gone to confession since my first one, so I never receive communion at Mass. I usually just leave before that whole part of the Mass, because that’s how we did it in RCIA (since we couldn’t take communion, there was no point being there.) Is this a valid thing to do, IE leave after the “Mass of the Catechumens”?
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You’re no longer a catechumen, so you are obliged to stay even if you can’t receive. Instead, make an act of spiritual communion, spend the time in adoration and prayer, or if your parish has Confession at the same time as Mass, go get in line so you can receive.
 
theology101 said:
That actually brings up a question for me. I am a convert, since 2009. Now, I haven’t gone to confession since my first one, so I never receive communion at Mass. I usually just leave before that whole part of the Mass, because that’s how we did it in RCIA (since we couldn’t take communion, there was no point being there.) Is this a valid thing to do, IE leave after the “Mass of the Catechumens”?
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You are no longer a Catechumen, but a fully initiated member of the Church so you should stay for the entire Mass. And, as a fully initiated member of the Church, you have an obligation to confess your mortal sins once a year and receive Eucharist at least once during the Easter season. This is one of the Precepts of the Church, and is in the Catechism for your reference.
 
CB_Catholic said:
You are no longer a Catechumen, but a fully initiated member of the Church so you should stay for the entire Mass. And, as a fully initiated member of the Church, you have an obligation to confess your mortal sins once a year and receive Eucharist at least once during the Easter season. This is one of the Precepts of the Church, and is in the Catechism for your reference.
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With the emphasis on the ‘mortal sins’. Theology101, are you sure you are in mortal sin? You do know that venial sins don’t have to be confessed, don’t you? Are you denying yourself Holy Communion unnecessarily?
 
pnewton said:
None of this has anything to do with the topic. Thus, it is a strawman.
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The existence of Black Masses is relevant.

Here’s my syllogism:

Black Masses are valid Masses.
We must not take part in Black Masses and would leave one if it started where we were.
Therefore some Masses we must leave and it’s a sin to stay.

Now along the spectrum, there are many other things that would make me leave.

The Lord is the focus of the decision. I would leave only out of love for Him, to avoid seeing Him being disrespected.
 
Whoa whoa whoa—Black Masses are valid? I have to throw a flag on that one.
 
newyorkcatholic said:
The existence of Black Masses is relevant.

Here’s my syllogism:

Black Masses are valid Masses.
We must not take part in Black Masses and would leave one if it started where we were.
Therefore some Masses we must leave and it’s a sin to stay.

Now along the spectrum, there are many other things that would make me leave.

The Lord is the focus of the decision. I would leave only out of love for Him, to avoid seeing Him being disrespected.
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adopted_heir said:
Whoa whoa whoa—Black Masses are valid? I have to throw a flag on that one.
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The first premise of the syllogism is false, which may be why I consider it a strawman.

Yes, one can walk out of a fake Mass.
 
newyorkcatholic said:
The existence of Black Masses is relevant.

Here’s my syllogism:

Black Masses are valid Masses.
We must not take part in Black Masses and would leave one if it started where we were.
Therefore some Masses we must leave and it’s a sin to stay.

Now along the spectrum, there are many other things that would make me leave.

The Lord is the focus of the decision. I would leave only out of love for Him, to avoid seeing Him being disrespected.
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Why would a Christian Catholic church perform a Satanic black mass??

Its one thing a Catholic Mass having bad music or sermons but having a black Mass that worships Satan in a Catholic church:confused:…i dont think such things happen
 
adopted_heir said:
God bless him. A little bit of John 6:66 in that parish, huh?
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It’s a shame, too, because it’s a beautiful church and he’s a great priest. The thing that gets me is that the ones walking out on him are likely the ones who most need to hear what he’s saying.
 
It just occurred to me that for the past two Sundays, hubby and I and our youngest have walked out of Mass after praying after communion, but before the final blessing and the recessional song. I wasn’t thinking about that when I first posted because it wasn’t my choice. But, we were directed to leave at that time in order to help with the Annual Catholic Appeal pledge cards. Hubby and I manned tables and my youngest held a sign outside of Church reminding folks to stop in to sign their cards and reminding them where to go on the campus to do so.

I’m sure some folks thought badly about us because I do recall that we received a few looks as we were going. I was not really comfortable doing it either because it is our norm to stay for the final blessing and recessional song to the very last note. But, we had to catch folks before they left and be ready for the very first person to arrive to make a pledge. And, we didn’t actually leave early at all because we were still at Church a half-hour after the end of Mass helping with pledges.
 
I almost did once. I like to visit other churches in the area once in a while, so I popped in to one about 15 miles away for an 11:00 a.m. Sunday Mass. Everything was fine in the beginning, but the priest started to try and do his own form of mass. He had a small homily right in the beginning about how beautiful the parish community is (which I’m not opposed to, it was just out of place). He went on to use prayers which weren’t meant for that day, or in the Missal at all. The entire Mass was peppered with little homilies about different things. One thing that really struck me as off is when he did a baptism, he asked all of the laity present to draw the sign of the cross over the child from the pews as he did the same for his priestly blessing. He also was encouraging some laymen to truncate the host. I was ready to pack up and head out several times, and I always meant to confront him about it, but I’ve never actually done it.
 
Paul_theApostle said:
Why would a Christian Catholic church perform a Satanic black mass??

Its one thing a Catholic Mass having bad music or sermons but having a black Mass that worships Satan in a Catholic church:confused:…i dont think such things happen
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Of course I’m not taking about Catholic Churches. I’m talking about validly ordained priests (eithe apostates or those who infiltrated the Church to be ordained) using valid form and matter, with intent to consecrate, but also with an intent to desecrate the host as par of an evil ritual. Such a thing would be valid.

According to people like Fr. Amorth, this is real (and he would know). And the Satanists are careful about form and matter and validity, because the whole poit is to desecrate a consecrated Host, not bread.

That extreme aside (I mentioned it only for rhetorical purposes), I disagree with the idea that it’s rude to leave mass. If I hear bad heresy or see a woman priest concelebrating or liturgical dance, I am going to leave. Because of, not in spite of, my love for the Lord.
 
I kind of did a “Mass of Catechumens” today and I feel rather guilty.

I work in the downtown area of my city on Sundays starting at 12. Saturday I had two graduations and I didn’t come home fromt the last at a banquet hall until after midnight.

I attempted to go to 10:30 AM mass at my local parish, but it was the 1st Communion of the 2nd graders, and the pastor also has a tendency to give long sermons that go on tangents. I decided to make 11 AM mass at a commuter church downtown, known for not being extravagant and lengthy.

At 11am mass we had three newly-ordained priests celebrating their first mass. I felt bad for hoping it would be fast, and it actually was…until they sang EVERY verse of EVERY hymn, one priest gave a long homily, and then the new priest lost his place in the book for several minutes.

I kept looking at my watch, and left after the great Amen to go to work. I’m not even sure I went to a complete mass now…
 
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