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Jessica_Ceceila
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Hi. This is my first post. It’s good to be here and I’m hoping for some answers and advice.
I was wondering why more parishes don’t offer late mass on Sunday. I used to live in an area where multiple paishes had late mass on Sunday, at 5, 6, and 7pm. As some one who has a late work schedule all week, I depended on this. These masses were very popular and usually were packed. Full of all age groups, families, single people, etc. Where I live now the latest mass I can find on Sunday is 11:15 am. This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
It’s just a sad fact of our society that people work crazy hours and everything is opened 24hours a day. Many of people work 6 days a week, with Sunday being their only day off. It’s their day of rest and worship.
Personally, I used to drift in and out of sleep when I had attended early masses. It’s only natural that faithful people would want to go to mass rested and alert with a renewed mind.
Most parishes have 2 or sometimes 3 masses on Sunday already, but they are usually all in the morning. I don’t know if it’s just the state I live in or if this happens all over the country, but I’m sure that people everywhere want later mass times.
I have written to my new diocese, but haven’t recieved a response yet. I have yet to find a parish home because every Sunday I find myself driving across state lines to go where there are late masses. Which brings me to confession.
Most of the confession times in my diocese are listed in the bulletin as: “Confessions: 2:30pm to 3:15pm on Saturday or by appointment”. Saturdays, and every weekday for that matter, are out of the question for me and my husband and probably a lot of other people. Our only options are to either, make an appointment for a Sunday, (which we never feel comfortable doing) or drive across state lines to the shrine where they offer confessions from 1pm to 4pm on Sunday. We always end up driving to the shrine.
To wrap this up, I just want to know what I can do to help myself and all the other lay people who find themselves in a similar predicament. I do believe the Lord is telling me to advocate for this. If at least one parish in every diocese could have a late Sunday mass and a Sunday option of confession, It would help people like me a great deal. This way no one would have an excuse not to go to mass or confession…in fact I can guarantee confession attendance will go up. Thanks for listening, and I look forward to your advice.
In His hope, Jess
I was wondering why more parishes don’t offer late mass on Sunday. I used to live in an area where multiple paishes had late mass on Sunday, at 5, 6, and 7pm. As some one who has a late work schedule all week, I depended on this. These masses were very popular and usually were packed. Full of all age groups, families, single people, etc. Where I live now the latest mass I can find on Sunday is 11:15 am. This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
It’s just a sad fact of our society that people work crazy hours and everything is opened 24hours a day. Many of people work 6 days a week, with Sunday being their only day off. It’s their day of rest and worship.
Personally, I used to drift in and out of sleep when I had attended early masses. It’s only natural that faithful people would want to go to mass rested and alert with a renewed mind.
Most parishes have 2 or sometimes 3 masses on Sunday already, but they are usually all in the morning. I don’t know if it’s just the state I live in or if this happens all over the country, but I’m sure that people everywhere want later mass times.
I have written to my new diocese, but haven’t recieved a response yet. I have yet to find a parish home because every Sunday I find myself driving across state lines to go where there are late masses. Which brings me to confession.
Most of the confession times in my diocese are listed in the bulletin as: “Confessions: 2:30pm to 3:15pm on Saturday or by appointment”. Saturdays, and every weekday for that matter, are out of the question for me and my husband and probably a lot of other people. Our only options are to either, make an appointment for a Sunday, (which we never feel comfortable doing) or drive across state lines to the shrine where they offer confessions from 1pm to 4pm on Sunday. We always end up driving to the shrine.
To wrap this up, I just want to know what I can do to help myself and all the other lay people who find themselves in a similar predicament. I do believe the Lord is telling me to advocate for this. If at least one parish in every diocese could have a late Sunday mass and a Sunday option of confession, It would help people like me a great deal. This way no one would have an excuse not to go to mass or confession…in fact I can guarantee confession attendance will go up. Thanks for listening, and I look forward to your advice.
In His hope, Jess
. It does have a late confession time, 7-7:30 on Saturday if that helps, as well as a 4-4:30. The noontime weekday ones get busy, so you should get there by 11:30!