I think you can ask your regular priest for a dispensation for that Sunday only.
Exactly. Your pastor can give a dispensation and then you don’t have to worry about it.
I’ve always been under the impression that it’s needed to miss any Sunday mass (that you can foresee missing). Otherwise, missing would be a mortal sin. If you missed just thinking “I’ll confess before next week” then that’d be presumption (at least in my imperfect understanding). Then that’s a whole big double sinning mess- better to just talk to the priest and receive a dispensation.
Certainly can’t hurt to ask in any case. The answer will either be “you don’t need dispensation, you’re fine,” or, most likely “you’re dispensed.”
Ok it’s Friday and it’s going to be a blizzard with lots of fresh snow above 4,000’ so I’m going to crystal mountain Washington no time to ask a priest because I’m sure if I called my parish I would get the answering mechine. And when I spend the night up there it is supposed to snow 12-36" in the next 2 days. So I doubt I’ll be able to drive easily down to the nearest parish in enumclaw with it not taking half the day
Yes I think it’s called google or bing
The ski area had a catholic service at 1pm!!!I’m sure the other posters are probably right.
That said, I’ve driven “over an hour” each way to go to Mass on vacation. Takes 4 hours out of a Sunday; plenty of time left for the vacation.
Unless it is WAY more than an hour, or there is a significant chance of getting stuck and not making it there and back at all.
Alan
I offerred you THE resource for all Mass Times in the ENTIRE world and you sarcastically reply with this?
I detected sarcasm in that Google or Bing are standard solutions for everything, and everybody knows about them, so telling someone Google or Bing is the modern equivalent of the classic computer science acronym RTFM. :tsktsk:Sorry, I don’t see the sarcasm.
Jim
Thanks. I thought I interpretted the post correctly as sarcasim and it was not a matter of PEBKAC on my part.I detected sarcasm in that Google or Bing are standard solutions for everything, and everybody knows about them, so telling someone Google or Bing is the modern equivalent of the classic computer science acronym RTFM. :tsktsk:
Classically, RTFM was reserved for someone who did no due diligence to research a problem before asking others for help, and this was back when bandwidth was precious and we didn’t get 100 SPAM every day. They would ask of computer experts a question that is completely obvious if they had only spent three minutes to crack open the manual. Of course that was back in the day when equipment actually came with operating manuals.
In this case, the poster who offered “Google or Bing” was responding to a poster who did, in fact, do due diligence to find a site that was specialized for the exact purpose at hand. So an answer with attitude similar to “RTFM” was not justified in this case. :nope:
Anyway that’s how I saw it.
Alan
Thanks.
