How many times have you missed Sunday Mass in the past 10 years?

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How many times have you missed Sunday Mass in the past 10 years?
  • I haven’t missed Sunday Mass in the past 10 years.
  • 1-5 times.
  • 6-10 times.
  • More than 10 times.
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Can I ask what the purpose of the poll is?

Undoubtedly some miss with valid reason. At present, it sounds like this poll will wind up unjustly judging – hope not.
 
Yeah, I missed it over 10 times because I quit going to Mass regularly in about 1998 and didn’t start up going to Mass semi-regularly again until 2013, and then didn’t get back to Confession and assiduous Mass-going again until Jan or Feb 2016. I’m sure I missed hundreds of Masses and when I did go, I received unworthy Communions dozens of times. I’ve never pretended to be anything other than a giant sinner who now is hopefully reformed and trying to do a better job of serving the Lord like I should have been doing all along.

Fortunately, our God is greatly merciful and I have confessed, been absolved, started going to frequent weekday Masses in 2016 and have attended almost daily for the past year and a half. I figure I owe the Lord over 1,000 makeup Masses and if I manage to go to daily Mass most days for maybe 3-5 years we might be close to “even Steven” though I know this is neither required by God nor does it even begin to make up for the grave sins I committed.
(Including stuff beyond missing Mass, not confessing for 18 years and receiving unworthy Communion.)

Edited to add, I forgot the handful of times I missed an obligated Mass since 2016. I can recall being very sick once and I may have stayed home on a Sunday, can’t remember. I also remember getting a call on a Sunday as I was getting ready to attend noon Mass that my husband had just dropped dead two hours away and I skipped the noon Mass thinking I would go to the 5 pm but that day kind of got away from me with having to go meet with the police officers, call my brother-in-law, call the undertaker etc.

Is there a point to this question?
 
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Childbirth, illness, weather.

When it’s weather, I can usually walk to church… but the priest can’t make it in. 😉
 
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I wasn’t active in my faith for roughly four of those years, so lots of misses there.

Since then, only a handful of times due to sickness or other inability to make it.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
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No doubt but the OP clearly isn’t sharing it with us, so I decline to answer, IMHO it is a personal question. If there is a sinful reason for missing of Mass by someone or there is a grey area, then it is between penitent and confessor. If there are valid reasons for missing Mass, it’s irrelevant to the state of a person’s soul.
 
Only when I was either to sick to crawl out of my bed, or contagious enough to pass on germs to others, or when the streets were too icy to safely drive. Probably about 4-5 times. Less than once or twice a year at most.
 
What an odd question.

I do not keep a running list of the times when I or my husband has been sick, when our car has been broken down, there was one whole year we did not have a car, there has been inclement weather.
 
How many times you missed in the PAST is not as important as how many times you attend NOW!
 
Once, I think. Freezing rain was predicted and it was definitely falling. Our country roads don’t get de-iced. So my wife and I missed Mass. Later we learned that the icing on the paved roads was only intermittent. Even in retrospect, though, it didn’t seem like a good idea to go.

But I’ll add that elderly people tend not to go when there’s anything slick on the roads. Makes sense to me. We probably ought to miss more than we do.

Oh, and once my wife missed because she had the stomach flu. You really don’t want to be in church with the stomach flu.
 
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OraLabora said:
No doubt but the OP clearly isn’t sharing it with us, so I decline to answer, IMHO it is a personal question. If there is a sinful reason for missing of Mass by someone or there is a grey area, then it is between penitent and confessor. If there are valid reasons for missing Mass, it’s irrelevant to the state of a person’s soul.
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Agreed. If the OP wants to share why he’s asking, I may answer. But without that, I don’t see why I (or anyone else) would want to share this information.
 
Never missed a Sunday Mass since Baptism 6 years ago. I’m a Protestant convert so I assume the years of not being Catholic do not count.

However, I am not the sickly type and I do not have children yet. I am sure the days of sick children will come when I might have to miss a day.

I did forget a holy day of obligation a year and a half ago.

Lighten up people… It’s just a question. Seems light hearted enough. Just don’t answer if you don’t want to.
 
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In the last 10 years I’ve missed 300 Sunday masses partly beacuse i only started going to church 3/4 years ago
 
Not true.

I was non-practicing for almost 20 years.

I now attend Mass at least once during the week and on Sundays, sometimes twice if I am serving in any capacity.
 
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