Is it a sin not to attend church on Sunday?

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Pug said:
The use of “yada, yada” is often slang for, “and the person continued talking in this same manner, but what they said was tedious and repetitive, and it is not worth describing in more detail.”
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Pug said:
The comment about sins not mattering is probably a reflection of her having heard some type of once-saved-always-saved preaching. She is likely getting the emphasis of that sermon a bit confused. Usually OSAS groups will say that going around sinning is not irrelevant. It may not change salvation, but they do think it is relevant to something.
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You’re darn right OSAS groups would say that going around sinning is not irrelevant. I am more and more coming to (re-)accept OSAS and Free Grace theology. The response to someone who sins (esp. willfully), is that the following can happen:
  1. Temporal punishment/chastisement (including physical death)
  2. Loss of eternal rewards
  3. Shame when they finally come before Christ
 
backwoods_blues said:
all good catholics attend church each sunday. That is what seperates us from casual christians. Most protestants do not attend church as often. They have no valid eucharist or ordained priests. Therefore they have no real reason to go other than to socialize and talk in the back of church before and during worship service. It is not even called Mass So there you go wrong from the get go.
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Someone should nominate you for chair of CAF. It’s a toss-up between you and Righteousone.
 
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paarsurrey said:
Hi

English is not my mother tongue. I don’t find the word “yada” in the dictionary. Would you kindly expalin it for me. Is it a slang?

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Yada is just an expression we have that means someone goes on endlessly about it…talks and talks…
 
Originally Posted by Pug forums.catholic-questions.org/images/buttons_cad/viewpost.gif
The use of “yada, yada” is often slang for, “and the person continued talking in this same manner, but what they said was tedious and repetitive, and it is not worth describing in more detail.”
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“yada, yada, yada” IMHO replaced “etc, etc, etc” because the English tongue and mentality has gotten lazy. Yada is much easier to say then etc.
 
She admitted she was a sinner but it didn’t matter because she was saved, she never seemed the slightest bit remorseful about it

She knew she was going to heaven…It didn’t matter what she did because she was saved was her answer for everything…she claimed she loved Christ but acted very strangely for someone making those claims…She would miss church and attend musicals, operas, plays, concert…she listened to Hagee and thought the moon rose in him…I guess she felt that supplied her need to worship

WE are taught that greed is a sin, and she didn’t believe it was…I never once heard her speak about those less fortunate or trying to help them…She was financially comfortable and said it was a sign of God’s blessing, and everyone should be that believed in Christ

It sounds more pagan than Christian to me
 
backwoods_blues said:
all good catholics attend church each sunday. That is what seperates us from casual christians. Most protestants do not attend church as often. They have no valid eucharist or ordained priests. Therefore they have no real reason to go other than to socialize and talk in the back of church before and during worship service. It is not even called Mass So there you go wrong from the get go.
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Maybe you should consider your rudeness and arrogance to your priest. And be sure to confess it to God before you take the eucharist, and that’s important to remember since Paul reminded us to make sure we did not take it in an unworthy manner. Those are such condescending statements. Go find something else to do other than attack people who don’t agree with. Get a hobby.
 
O.S.Luke said:
Someone should nominate you for chair of CAF. It’s a toss-up between you and Righteousone.
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I am Flatered to be mentioned in the same sentence as Righteousone. Thank You “Righteousone 08” gets my vote for CAF Chair. I saw a yard sign just the other day;)
 
reteeks21 said:
Maybe you should consider your rudeness and arrogance to your priest. And be sure to confess it to God before you take the eucharist, and that’s important to remember since Paul reminded us to make sure we did not take it in an unworthy manner. Those are such condescending statements. Go find something else to do other than attack people who don’t agree with. Get a hobby.
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I am the nice guy in the Family If you think I am Rude and arrogant you should meet My older Sister.😃
 
nsper7 said:
The response to someone who sins (esp. willfully), is that the following can happen:
  1. Temporal punishment/chastisement (including physical death)
  2. Loss of eternal rewards
  3. Shame when they finally come before Christ
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Your post encouraged me to think about what reasons I find most compelling to not sin. I mean personally, not logically. Logically, I probably ought to find most compelling the line from the psalms: Psalm 51:4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, … But I am not logical, and I am more compelled by my desire not to scandalize my brothers and not to be of less use to them than I ought to be. I can sometimes prod myself into action with the thought that if I don’t pray and talk to God and try to walk uprightly, then how can I in turn have anything of use to give to my brothers?

Another reason that often constrains me is a desire to avoid the unpleasant internal disharmony that sins create in myself. Maybe this one falls under what you meant by “temporal punishment”.

Lastly, when I was younger, I read the sermon on the mount many times, which concludes*"…everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell – and great was its fall!"* Those words have motivated me.

Uh, “scandalize” might be specialized terminology. It means to me that a person by their sinning could lead others to sin or to hate or despair, and so on.
 
backwoods_blues said:
I am Flatered to be mentioned in the same sentence as Righteousone. Thank You “Righteousone 08” gets my vote for CAF Chair. I saw a yard sign just the other day;)
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Both of you are made for each other. You have my vote.

It is a dubious honor, my friend.
 
Joe_Kelley said:
The Commandment is to Keep Holy the Sabbath. I think this means to spend time in prayer, no servile work etc. The specific means of doing this are not prescribed. Note that the Ten Commandments are from God and cannot be dispensed.

The specific command to attend church is a law of the Catholic Church and binds only Catholics. Note that it can be dispensed for due cause.

Also note that attending mass fulfills only the Church Law. The Commandment requires that we keep the whole day holy, whether or not we have been dispensed from the Church Law; not just 50 minutes.
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Most Protestants do go to church every Sunday and many also go to church on Wednesday night for Bible study. The “blue laws” that used to be in place in the USA that prohibited stores being open on Sunday and prohibited alcohol sales on Sunday were a Protestant invention, not a Catholic one. Of course there are lazy and indifferent Protestants who do not bother to go to church on Sunday, just as there are lazy and indifferent Catholics who do not bother to go to church on Sunday either.
 
I have Protestants in my family and those that are, do go to church every Sunday…I just started to wonder if they were in the minority?..One thing Catholics have, that Protestants don’t is the ability to pick a convenient time to attend…I don’t think Protestants have multi services
 
redrosetea said:
I have Protestants in my family and those that are, do go to church every Sunday…I just started to wonder if they were in the minority?..One thing Catholics have, that Protestants don’t is the ability to pick a convenient time to attend…I don’t think Protestants have multi services
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The Lutheran church just down the street from my church has a Saturday evening service at 5 pm and two services on Sunday (8 am and 10 am).
 
I am not too surprised to hear the Lutherans do this…they got all of their good stuff from us…😉
 
redrosetea said:
I have Protestants in my family and those that are, do go to church every Sunday…I just started to wonder if they were in the minority?..One thing Catholics have, that Protestants don’t is the ability to pick a convenient time to attend…I don’t think Protestants have multi services
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Most Protestant groups that I know of do have a selection of times to attend. Some attend on Wednesday and Sunday, typically. Some do not go on Sunday ever and only go on Saturday (that type is very, very keen on not missing, though). Smaller storefront churches may meet at only one time on a particular day, but as I drive around town I see that anyplace over a certain size has two time choices on Sunday listed in their display box.

They have the type that only shows up if the family makes them or it is Easter or something, just like we do. As I was raised, they seem less inclined to spend time in an airport between legs of a flight at a service than a Catholic is (I mean comparing between a Protestant who does go every Sunday and a Catholic who does go every Sunday) in order to attend on a Sunday while traveling. That could just be the particular mix of Protestants that I grew up around, though. It’s not like I haven’t seen chapels in airports for non-Catholics.
 
redrosetea said:
I am not too surprised to hear the Lutherans do this…they got all of their good stuff from us…😉
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One of my friends who is Methodist said that his church is starting a Saturday evening service this fall.

There is a Baptist church in my neighbourhood that has a Sunday evening service. I saw it on their sign.
 
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