How Many Minutes Do You All Drive To Your Parish?

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Thanks for all the helpful responses. Guess, what I’m wondering is:
are Catholic churches somehow different in that they have “boundaries”, and you’re “supposed” to go to the one nearest your house?
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Parishes do have geographic boundaries associated with them. At one time most dioceses expected people to belong to the parish in which they resided. (There may have been some national parishes in some places.) People could still attend Mass at other parishes but they were expected to belong to and support their geographic parish.

Now days most (but I don’t think all) bishops have dispensed with any requirements to belong to the geographic parish. It’s not clear to me if Catholics who do not register in any parish are assumed to belong to the geographic parish.
 
Less than 5 mins for me. Thank God.

I am back and forth several times on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays. I try to go to daily Mass as well but have not done a great job over the last few weeks.
 
10-15 minutes, depending on traffic.

This is actually not the closest parish to my house, just the one where I feel most at home in the community. I am blessed to live in a Catholic-heavy area where there are at least a dozen parishes within a 15-20 min. drive from home. It’s convenient when I oversleep and miss the last Mass at my home parish, or when I get called into work on Sunday and have to fit Mass in around that.
 
Our parish is just under a mile away…takes about 4 minutes to drive 🙂
 
I only live 10 blocks from my parish so were there in a minute! I plan on moving soon though and there is a Catholic Church in the town I am moving to but there is no Catholic school there so I will most likely go to the Church where my kids will be going to Catholic School at which is 4 and a half miles away. 👍
 
I know people, even a whole family at my parish, who drive over an hour.

But then many of us Byzantines must do this if we wish to attend one of our Churches or one of the Churches that share our tradition.
 
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