Mass obligation (w/mask)

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Lots of places. That’s how it will be in our diocese too in a couple of weeks. But We are still dispensed from attending at this point.
 
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Where is wearing a mask in Mass forced upon a congregation? And by whom?
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We have mandatory masking. It is required and enforced by the priest.
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I’m so surprised at the power displayed during this covid crisis from people who claimed not to have the power to enforce even dress codes at Mass for years.
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Dress codes are not a life issue. But even then, I am sure there would be levels of indecency would be enforced should anyone show up truly indecent.
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Tell me, who have I killed because I don’t wear a mask. (We aren’t required).
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That is not the point. I could fire a gun up in the air and empty the clip. Who have I injured? No one. Yet I have endangered the life of others.
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I guess in a time of crisis everybody is an expert!
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The current death toll in the United States is at 115,000. The experts are epidemiologists. The CDC gives the guidelines. People are dying and we still have a lot of people in denial or more worried about discomfort than the lives of their neighbors. The Catholic Church is the bastion of God’s love to the world. Of course we are going to do all we can to keep people alive.
 
Required by the Bishop, the priests, staff and parishioners submit to his authority.
 
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from people who claimed not to have the power to enforce even dress codes at Mass for years.
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Our Bishop has a strict dress code in place for Confirmation, First Communion and all of the Sponsors at each of those celebration. Various parishes have extended dress codes for weddings.

Dress code for general mass in the US is rare because we are a evangelizing people. To require a mask helps prevent disease, to require a suit and tie helps prevent some from coming to Mass, big difference.
 
Our bishop recommends wearing masks but has left that decision up to the individual priests. Some priests require people to wear masks and some do not.
 
That’s ridiculous. Out of 300 people at mass yesterday maybe 15 had masks. The rest are murdering people aided by the bishop? Good grief.
 
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That’s ridiculous. Out of 300 people at mass yesterday maybe 15 had masks.
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You’re right—that is ridiculous. And sad. One would hope that in a church there would be a greater manifestation of Christian charity.
 
Hmm my parish always had a dress code guideline sign on the front door. So do major churches in Rome by the way… sounds like you just have a personal axe to grind here honestly.
 
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Tell me, who have I killed because I don’t wear a mask. (We aren’t required). That may indeed have been a red herring, but the mask or people die argument is equally hyperbolic.
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With this particular pandemic it is unknown how many cases are transmitted via asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people, so you wouldn’t know.

Here is the worrying example: in the case of the choir practice at Mt. Vernon, Washington, an event at which about 75% of the attendees became infected in the course of a few hours of singing together, no one present was exhibiting symptoms. They thought they were being careful.
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That’s ridiculous. Out of 300 people at mass yesterday maybe 15 had masks. The rest are murdering people aided by the bishop? Good grief.
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One would hope the intent to kill is absent, so no, it wouldn’t be murder. Someone could die a death that a disdain for a little inconvenience might have prevented, though.
 
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I’d be very surprised if your bishop hadn’t recommended masks but was not requiring them. Some bishops have done that in the hopes that people would be moved to wear masks out of charity for their neighbors.

Clearly, even among church-goers, that does not always work. It’s disappointing, but sadly not surprising.
 
Some churches in our diocese say masks are recommended. Some dont. They don’t say who recommends it. I can’t find anything from the Bishop since we have advanced in reopening.
None of the priests I’ve seen wear masks. Nor does the Bishop. I guess we have a different medical situation than others.
 
Well, the priests and bishops wouldn’t be sitting in the congregation.

And unless you’re on some remote desert island where Covid is not present, then your diocese is in the same medical situation as others.
 
SMH at the mask shaming. While I disagree with it, I hope such passion manifests itself in other things at Mass.
 
SMH at the mask shaming.
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I am similarly SMH at the people who refuse to wear masks in order to protect their neighbors. The flagrant disregard for the well-being of others has been one of the most discouraging things to come out of this pandemic.
 
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To assume the motive of someone who deems a mask unnecessary as nefarious is a lack of charity. I’ll be stepping away from the thread now but since different places have different ideas and information they are dealing with I urge you to reflect positively on those who are acting with a well formed conscience and choose to not wear a mask. Shocked at the shaming going on and blaming others of murder. But I guess that’s the outrage culture we live in now.
 
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Im not going to mass wearing a mask. I will go in by myself if need be.
 
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To assume the motive of someone who deems a mask unnecessary as nefarious is a lack of charity. I’ll be stepping away from the thread now but since different places have different ideas and information they are dealing with I urge you to reflect positively on those who are acting with a well formed conscience and choose to not wear a mask. Shocked at the shaming going on and blaming others of murder. But I guess that’s the outrage culture we live in now.
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I would classify it more as a self-centered culture that we live in now.
 
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