Leaving Mass early!

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Who on here leaves Mass before it is finished. We need to be mindful and think about what we have received. It’s not just a piece of bread and cup of wine it is the body and blood of Jesus. So we should take time and thank God for what we have received and wait just a few more minutes for father to proceed out.

You wouldn’t go to a dinner party and leave after you finished eating that would be rude to your host and I’m sure God doesn’t like it either.
 
I think it depends on why someone leaves early, if they need to get back home to take care of a sick family member, that’s a little different because they want to leave because they’re bored.
 
I never leave Mass early.

Once I’m there I like to spend time with Jesus.
 
I’ve had to leave Mass early twice: once was because I had a Baptism to go to right after and the other time was because I was ill. Other than that I don’t leave early since it’s a sin. It’s sad when the pews get a little empty right after Communion because so many people leave early.
 
i want the “Final Blessing”

but if you gotta go; you gotta go;

the egress from my parish parking lot is a complete mess; so i’d’ve been the last one to’ve blame anybody who tries to get ahead of the inevitable long lines of cars
 
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In the local parishes, on weekends, the Mass is drawn out with lots of excess singing. The singing doesn’t SUPPORT the Mass, it seems to become a distraction FROM the Mass.

I have developed respiratory problems and I can’t even sing at all, so I try to make sense of the verses.

If two verses will do the job, I don’t know why we need seven verses AND REFRAINS. The singing interrupts and prolongs the Mass.

If you listen to EWTN Mass, the melodies are so stale, as if there was no other way to sing those standards, like the Kyrie. In the Latin days, there were BEAUTIFUL masses, and it was refreshing to use a different melody and cadence.

The Gloria and Credo were sung, and the priest would go sit down while the choir sung those hymns. Now, it’s STAND for everything.

If you’ve got a priest who likes to tell jokes at the end of Mass, I’d walk out. If the priest is going to announce everything that you can read in the bulletin, I say walk out.

We had a priest from Poland who had a lot of difficulty with homilies. He would tell a joke EVERY TIME before his homily, to indulge himself, to test if people could understand him. That gets old. I could understand only half of what he said. I think jokes at any time are a sacrilege.

There seems to be an unspoken rule, to drag out the Mass so that it’s an hour, for sure. It’s quite conspicuous when this is happening. I don’t walk out, but I see people that do.

In the daily EWTN Mass, there is silly pretentious superficial piety. the altar servers bring the chalice and book stand and prayer book to the altar before the Offertory, and then they remove these after communion. That’s totally unnecessary. The chalice, book, and stand could be pre-staged there beforehand, and left there after communion. There’s no reason for that commotion, except to kill air time, to make the Mass fill the allotted time. Perhaps in her day, Mother Angelica dictated all these details, the way she expected them to be, and so they are to this day. For example, EWTN Masses have little bursts of Latin here and there. MA was really wound up about preserving Latin, but I don’t know of any Masses elsewhere that copy that EWTN Mass choreography.
 
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EWTN is committed to a “1 hour” daily mass @ 0800 ET for “TV” purposes

you are not obligated to watch one second of it; much less the entire “show”
 
I only do it rarely, usually it’s if I have a commitment afterwards and mass has significantly overrun.
 
I have fallen out of the practice of watching their televised Masses. One of my other peeves is that the first of the general intercessions is usually if not always an invocation for Mother Angelica and the nuns. If she is so saintly and holy, why don’t we pray for those who really need the prayer ? In the Mass, we’re already praying for the whole Church. It’s quite illogical to me. Once in a while, there’s a prayer for the benefactors who keep the network on the air. I didn’t hear anything like that in the early years. Maybe I missed it.

As for not watching the Mass regularly, there’s such variability in the quality of the homilies. You’d think these internationally broadcast programs would be of the highest quality, but it seems that there’s not so much preparation going into the homilies.
 
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@adamhovey1988 I agree with you, we just don’t know for sure why people leave early. Of which I am sure have valid reasons.
 
EWTN is broadcasting daily Catholic Mass via sattelite to the entire planet

it’ll’ve been tough to find a format that pleases everybody

father pacwa usually says Mass on Wednesday (but not always)

listen to his homily; it usually makes a lot of sense
 
I notice you seem to bring up “excuses” in several posts. I do not think it is charitable to ask for “why” someone does something and then dismiss their response as an “excuse.”

Why someone leaves Mass early is not my business; that’s the long and short of it.
 
mercymain said:
I do not think it is charitable to ask for “why” someone does something and then dismiss their response as an “excuse.”
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I never have and never will in the case of leaving Mass early. I figure a tiny percent have a legitimate need to leave Mass early. The balance just have profoundly bad manners.

What I was posting about are the excuses that are offered on these forums anyone ever dare posting a thread like this.
 
Duesenberg said:
I never have and never will in the case of leaving Mass early. I figure a tiny percent have a legitimate need to leave Mass early. The balance just have profoundly bad manners.

What I was posting about are the excuses that are offered on these forums anyone ever dare posting a thread like this.
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For a year I left nearly every Mass directly after Communion.

Why? Because I had to go open the classrooms for the catechism students who would be rushing down immediately after the final blessing. But I did worry incessantly about what people would assume by my leaving, since so many are quick to pass judgement and so few are willing to give the benefit of the doubt.

We talk about how to make the church, and the Mass, more welcoming. Being more charitable and less judgmental of those who don’t live up to our expectations for Mass etiquette might not be a bad first step.
 
RedDuke said:
IOther than that I don’t leave early since it’s a sin.
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Leaving Mass early isn’t a sin. Failing to fulfill one’s Sunday obligation is a sin. While it’s not ideal, you could go to Daily Mass and regularly leave early, for the most mundane of reasons, and not sin. Rather, the time that you took to get to any part of the Mass would be laudable.
 
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I think jokes at any time are a sacrilege.
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This is a bit extreme. Obviously, Mass isn’t the time for a priest to try out his stand up comedy routine, but a little light joke woven into the homily is fine. Even Jesus used puns when He preached.
 
I have left after Communion in rare instances when I had to get to another pressing engagement or when I was ill and was afraid I would faint or puke in the church.

I almost always prefer to stay, as I like to get the final blessing and was taught that it was disrespectful to leave before the priest has fully left the altar. When I was a young child, there was one priest who in the midst of the procession from the altar at the end, saw people walking out, stopped the procession and the organ and yelled at the folks who were leaving that they should not leave the church until the priest had left the altar. I never forgot that.

I generally find people who have to leave Mass or any other event early so they can be “first out of the parking lot” to be incredibly annoying. If you can’t handle waiting for some traffic, or just hang around the event till the traffic dissipates, you need to learn some patience.
 
I’ve made the observation a few times where people (sitting in my pew) have left the mass during communion. I can only speculate that they can’t receive the Eucharist and take the opportunity to bolt.

What say you? 🤨
 
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