How would I fulfill the Sunday Obligation in Tibet?!

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I’m planning a trip to Tibet with my friends and would like to know if there are any Catholic churches there…fat chance. :rolleyes: If not, does that mean the trip is off? Or can I get permission from a priest to miss Mass ahead of time?
 
Get a dispensation from your pastor ahead of time. If you can’t attend Mass, perhaps you can spend a little extra time in private prayer instead.
 
It’s not like I’m trying to miss Mass. I guess once we get the schedule planned ahead of time I’ll talk to my pastor about dispensation.
 
See what happens when you get there though - it’s always an interesting experience to attend Mass in a foreign country.
 
scapularkid8 said:
I’m planning a trip to Tibet with my friends and would like to know if there are any Catholic churches there…fat chance. :rolleyes: If not, does that mean the trip is off? Or can I get permission from a priest to miss Mass ahead of time?
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Maybe this will be of some assistance:
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I’m really curious to know now if there are any Catholic chapels in Tibet!
 
Call the hotel where you will be staying, and ask them whether there are any Catholic churches within easy travelling distance. They will most likely know, especially if they have had a lot of Westerners staying there.
 
LilyM said:
As of 2005 there was only one Catholic Church in the entire country - asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4651

Doesn’t mean there aren’t Catholic masses held in other places in Tibet, of course.
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However, if they are underground Churches, a Westerner should not try to find them. This will imperil them due to persecution by the Communists, as Jimmy Akin points out in his article.
 
lak611 said:
Since Tibet is part of China,
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IMHO, Tibet is not part of China…but we won’t get into that. 😉 😃
(And don’t worry, I’m not going to mention ANYTHING of this sort in Tibet or the PRC!)

And thanks for that blog link. Knowing my ways, I probably would have attempted to find the underground Catholics! Yikes!:eek: But now I know.
And Hong Kong would be a good stopping place. The Masses are valid and there’s an airport that can take us right into Lhasa.
 
I guess what I should’ve said was that they shouldn’t even be considered part of China and the PRC shouldn’t be there.
 
lak611 said:
However, if they are underground Churches, a Westerner should not try to find them. This will imperil them due to persecution by the Communists, as Jimmy Akin points out in his article.
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I’m not talking about underground Churches or Masses. Rather those that for legitimate reasons may be celebrated outside of a church - in school halls, hotel function rooms (one hotel that I was staying at in Fiji did this) and so on.
 
Have your whole group chip in together and invite your pastor along on the trip as your guest. He can take care of celebrating Mass for you and I’m sure he would really enjoy the trip. 😉
 
Leopard said:
Have your whole group chip in together and invite your pastor along on the trip as your guest. He can take care of celebrating Mass for you and I’m sure he would really enjoy the trip. 😉
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Hmmm. He’s from Viet Nam, so I wouldn’t think he’d be too excited to go to the area or government style he was imprisoned in and escaped from, but it wouldn’t hurt to ask. Then again, it’s going to be my friends and I who are are college freshmen and I’m the only Catholic in the group 🤷 I would feel like he’s my private priest or something and that would just be weird. AND I’d be taking him away from the rest of the flock in Colorado.
 
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