Holy Thursday: Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper Mass Attendance

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How was the Mass attendance at your church on Holy Thursday? Mine was pretty full. It was such a beautiful Mass.
 
It was fairly full at my parish, too. There weren’t quite as many people as on Sunday, but it was a good size crown.
 
The Church was full for Holy Thursday. It was full as well today and everyone joined the Good Friday procession, which included members of other Christian communities in my Borough.
 
nicolep said:
It was fairly full at my parish, too. There weren’t quite as many people as on Sunday, but it was a good size crown.
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Not many, church was about 1/3 full. The adoration afterwards was only for 2 hours and when I walked in at about the 45 min. point, the chapel was empty.
 
In The Church here, it was packed to the brim. People standing in the aisles. No seats available. Completely full. Outside there was a crowd of about 300 people standing outside the doorway and filling all of the town square, which is a park about one block in size. There was a screen outside the Church, so they could attend the Mass. Eucaristic Ministers gave Holy Communion outside. The Mass was two hours long. It was this way also for Palm Sunday, and it will be this way Easter. Who says that the Protestants are stealing away the Latino Catholics. Very good Mass, even though I prefer smaller congregations. I live in a small Guatemalan town called San Antonio. God bless:thumbsup:👍👍
 
I was full and the Mass was said by our Bishop who was installed on Tuesday. His love for his people and humility are giving me a good feeling.
 
There were fewer people than a Sunday Mass, but it was oh so beautiful and reverent. I was disappointed that so few people stayed for Adoration. Our Chapel of Repose is small and to be able to sit so close to the tabernacle there was just awesome.
 
Ours was only about as much as a regular Sunday Mass. I also noticed alot of the Church left during the Procession. 😦
 
I couldn’t make it, had a bad case of indigestion from lunch at work. Ouch! I feel fine today, and am heading to the liturgy of Our Lord’s Passion in about an hour from now.
 
Our church was about 80% full I’d say judging, from the parking lot after mass. We celebrated a lovely “quad-lingual” mass (English, Korean, Tagalog, Spanish), with the priest delivering the homily in both English and Spanish. Made me feel proud to be a part of my parish.
 
Our church was packed. It seats 650 people and there were several standing at the back as well. It was gratifying to see so many young people, teens and elementary school kids in attendance. The Mass was so beautiful. Father’s homily was long, almost 20 minutes, but it was absolutely brilliant and one of the most powerful I have ever heard… I think we must have set a parish record for the amount of kleenex used because throughout the homily tears were flowing copiously everywhere I looked! The incense was used copiously too. It seemed to waft about the nave constantly throughout the Mass and even this morning during the Stations, there was still a fairly strong smell of it in the church.
The Pange Lingua was sung in Latin during the procession. The commitee room at the church is not large enough to accomodate many people so the Blessed Sacrament was reposed at the end of the procession back on the main altar. As Father and the servers knelt in adoration, we sang Tantum Ergo, again in Latin. They remained at the foot of the altar for several minutes and the silence was deafening. Finally, they processed out of the nave. Some people left right after but the majority of people stayed for at least 10 minutes and then left quietly. I left after half an hour because I needed to see the pastoral minister about business regarding the Easter Vigil . The church was still at least half full. I returned 20 minutes later and stayed until midnight when adoration ended. I didn’t take a count but there were at least 50 others still there. Father came back in his cope and carried the Blessed Sacrament to the small chapel in his rectory.
 
The church was about 3/4 full, with approximately 300 people in attendance. This is considerably up from Sunday Masses.
 
I went to a friend’s church nearby. It was about 90% full. Also, the first mass I’ve been to where the entire mass was sung. And all the music was non-polyphonic chant, mostly in Latin, some English. I had mixed feelings about the music, but it’s not about me, it’s about worshiping God!
 
Our Parish Church (St. Gabriel’s in San Francisco) was almost full for the Holy Thursday Mass. I was so happy I was able to attend because it was a BEAUTIFUL Mass. They also had a soup and salad dinner before the Mass, but I decided not to attend the dinner.
Am getting ready now to attend Good Friday serevices and I have to pick up a friend who can’t make it to the Church by herself. I do wish everyone a beautiful Easter.
 
It was packed.

Today for the Stations and Good Friday Liturgy was even worse. The parking lot was full, so we were directed to the office complex next door.

Church was full so we went to the parish hall where the sound was piped in.

We did eventually find seats after the Stations of the Cross finished and several people left to get back to work.
 
it was unbelievable! Usually we receive the Host we aren’t offered the cup. Yesterday they offered the cup with wine to all of us when we were lining up to receive the Eucharist. I didn’t know this would happen, and I’ve always longed for the cup when I watched the priests drinking before the rest of us received the Host. So when I lined up and was offered the cup it was like heaven on earth for me! 🙂
I cried a lot. Needed even more tissues than normal 😊

The church was maybe 1/3rd full. Today it was more crowded like maybe half full. I must be on time on Sunday cause I think it’ll be crowded.
 
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Ours was only about as much as a regular Sunday Mass. I also noticed alot of the Church left during the Procession. 😦
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awwww! Sorry to hear that. Sad to hear that people leave during the Procession.
I hope your Easter Sunday mass will exceed all expectations and become the bestest Easter Sunday mass you’ve ever attended 🙂
 
Congregation was pretty full. Not like Palm Sunday (LOL), but a full church. We also had 4 priests, 2 deacons, and 14 altar boys - with incense & candles. A lovely service and the altar of repose was amazingly beautiful.
 
The church I attended had about 3/4’s of the seats filled.

Then again, I think attendance was boosted by a potluck dinner that was from 6 to 7pm and most of those who had dinner then attended Mass.

The Mass was about 1.5 hours or so, and the stripping of the altar, etc was done too at the end.

We had adoration in the chapel from the time Mass was finished at nearly 9pm til about 11pm.
 
The church was full, although not as packed as the larger Sunday masses usually are. When we had stations this afternoon, the parking lot was completely full. From the pastor’s comments, the turnout has been completely unexpected.
 
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