January 1, 2012 - Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God - Mass attendance

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How was your parish’s attendance for today’s solemnity? The vigil Mass last night was well-attended, and this morning’s 8:30 Mass was semi-half full. Overall, there was more people than I expected.
 
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Though to be fair we got a rain/ice/snow mix over night here, and our parish consists mainly of either elderly or 2nd/3rd generation parishioners that drive in from the suburbs.
 
Quite full. Everyone wore purple. Is that traditional today?
 
I attended the 9:30am Mass this morning, which is typically the “Children’s Mass”, and one I avoid like the plague!:eek:

Ordinarily, this Mass is pretty well attended, today, not so much. And not many children either. If I had to guess I would say about 300 with is far less than the usual 500 or so.

From what I understand, the 4:30pm vigil was packed to the rafters!
I guess nobody wanted to get up early this morning!! 😛
 
At the start of 8:30 Mass, the pews were only about half full.

By the end, they were a little more than half full. Normally the 8:30am Mass is about 2/3 full.

I guess I’m getting older; ten years ago I wouldn’t have considered going to a morning Mass on Jan. 1. :o
 
YoungTradCath said:
Quite full. Everyone wore purple. Is that traditional today?
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Never heard of it. Personally, I find it extremely tacky to “wear the liturgical color,” like wearing a band’s tour t-shirt to a concert on the tour itself.
 
About 100 out of a parish of 1500. Not unusual, I’ve seen the church almost empty for this Mass, nobody seems to know that January 1 is a HDoO and in the last decade or so the priests have never even mentioned it. Of course this year that was moot since it’s Sunday. Perhaps many are out of the parish but, as in previous years, not even the choir bothered to show up for this Mass and the two main singers, one of whom is the director, and a few more members have usually bluntly said that they didn’t come because they’d been out partying.

Now I have to admit that I didn’t attend the Saturday evening Mass, so have no idea if there were more than the 40 people normally there. as
 
MarkThompson said:
Never heard of it. Personally, I find it extremely tacky to “wear the liturgical color,” like wearing a band’s tour t-shirt to a concert on the tour itself.
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I think it is mostly co-incidence that many people show up wearing the same color as the liturgical color for that day. I also notice that sometimes I will wear a certain color and it just so happens that many people chose to wear that same color at church that day. Sometimes it was the same at the liturgical color and sometimes not. But it was never planned to be, at least on my part. 🤷

Oh, and Mass attendance this morning was almost normal, maybe a few less, but the church was full.
 
North American Martyrs was packed at the 11:30 am Mass. We had no vigil Mass, so it was the 8am Low Massor the 11:30 am High Mass.

We also were treated to hearing our new assistant pastor say the Mass and give the Homily for the first time (for us, not for him!).
 
The 9:00am Mass had fewer people than on a normal Sunday.

It’s hard to know what to make of that. Sometimes Sundays on holiday weekends are lightly attended because more people go out of town than come and visit. Or maybe lots of people were at New Years Eve parties and so went to Mass on Saturday evening or planned to go at 11:00. 🤷
 
hello friends,
In the USA, whenever the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (1 Jan), her Assumption (15 Nov) or All Saints (1 Nov) fall on a Saturday or Monday, the obligation to attend Mass is dispensed.

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8:00am mass at my “home parish” wasn’t as crowded as normal. it’s a big church … even the deacon said some people must have slept in.
 
I did three masses yesterday - 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00 and they all seemed pretty well-attended, the most being at the 11:00. I’m not surprised about that, though, since it was New Year’s Eve the night before and people were probably out late. I don’t know what the Vigil was like.
 
Phemie said:
About 100 out of a parish of 1500. Not unusual, I’ve seen the church almost empty for this Mass, nobody seems to know that January 1 is a HDoO
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Went to midday Mass. More people than normal, mainly because there was no evening service. Here in Scotland Phemie 1st Jan no longer a HDoO
 
Doesn’t hurt that it was on a Sunday. Less of a possibility that people would forget/be ignorant of the holy day. 😛
 
I should add that I picked up my 20yo son from a party on the 1st. We drove straight to Mass, where we joined the rest of the family. As we were about to go into Church my son turned and said, “Dad, is January 1st a Holiday of Obligation?” “No” I replied “but this year it’s a Sunday”
BE AWARE! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ALLOW 20yo BOYS TO ATTEND PARTIES WHERE DRINK MAY BE CONSUMED AND THERE MAY EVEN BE WOMEN TO TALK TO. THEY CANNOT EVEN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF THE WEEK!
 
It was a Sunday. Everyone should have been there even if they didn’t realize it was a HDO. We Attended Mass at 9am Sunday morning. Slightly lighter than usual, but I don’t know how many went to the vigil or planned to attend one of the 2 later Masses. I assume everyone made it. 😉
 
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