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Since I reverted last year back to Catholicism I have not missed Sunday or Holy Day Mass until today. I was ill overnight and had a low grade fever in the morning. I decided I shouldn’t infect humans by attending Mass, but I did go outside to feed a colony of feral cats as there was no one else to do it for me. I then went through McDonalds to buy a shake so I had something coating my stomach for some pills. (This all seemed very logical at the time, typing it out now is another story.)

I watched the readings and the homily on television but went back to bed. I was feeling better in the afternoon except for a persistent headache. I though I might have gone to a 6 pm Mass offered in the same city but different parish but ended up sleeping through it.

I really love going to Mass, and even though I didn’t go with reason, feel guilt. Now I’m up at an early time worried. Should I go to confession?
 
No. You were ill, possibly infectious. You didn’t REFUSE to go to Mass, which would have been sinful, but you judged it better not to. The brief errands you undertook aren’t relevent. It’s one thing to be well enough to complete a small task, it’s quite another to sit through an hour of Mass.

I wish more people would stay at home when they are ill. and not spread their germs about. As has been pointed out on other threads, what might be a slight illness for most people might be genuinely life-threatening to others, - the very old or those with low immunity, for instance.
 
When was the last time you went to confession? Although being sick is a valid reason to miss Mass, it would do no harm to confess this along with any other sins as we take full advantage of this season of preparation.
 
Dont follow this stanch “you must go to mass on Sunday”!
Come a across a huge number of people who have been alienated, away from mass often by people who are to be leaders of the Church, and currently see a BIG example of this taking place. A person, who is under the Priest directly is alienating children away from the Mass. and to be blunt, its a long term situation, that has been declared and pointed out to the Priest, who fails to address it, but is only in the current finally seeing the light of a Tragidity of a reality that often happens. This must, and should be stood against.
Dont see how a priest himself can say mass, in face of he needs to admit the shortcoming of this existing, yet not being strong enough to address…
Alienation cannot be reasoned away, it must be healed. yet this has continued to be reasoned away. and for that, the priest is condoning it.

WE protest this. If children are being run off, we side with them, and dont go to mass either in protest, the Priest has directly had and knows this.

We are Catholic, and we dont tollerate such. to tollerate it is rather condoning it.
 
I’ll pray you feel better soon. You were right to stay home if you had fever. You still kept His day holy by watching the readings and homily on TV. Obviously your body needed the rest to heal. You shouldn’t feel guilty. If you still do later today go ahead and call your Priest.

God Bless!
 
wanabesaint said:
Dont follow this stanch “you must go to mass on Sunday”!
Come a across a huge number of people who have been alienated, away from mass often by people who are to be leaders of the Church, and currently see a BIG example of this taking place. A person, who is under the Priest directly is alienating children away from the Mass. and to be blunt, its a long term situation, that has been declared and pointed out to the Priest, who fails to address it, but is only in the current finally seeing the light of a Tragidity of a reality that often happens. This must, and should be stood against.
Dont see how a priest himself can say mass, in face of he needs to admit the shortcoming of this existing, yet not being strong enough to address…
Alienation cannot be reasoned away, it must be healed. yet this has continued to be reasoned away. and for that, the priest is condoning it.

WE protest this. If children are being run off, we side with them, and dont go to mass either in protest, the Priest has directly had and knows this.

We are Catholic, and we dont tollerate such. to tollerate it is rather condoning it.
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I agree (but stand by, we’re gonna take a lot of heat)!

There are too many people who “faithfully” attend Mass physically, but not spiritually, and are hardly Catholic or Christian the rest of the day and week.

We should not attend Mass because of some “obligation” but for our desire to worship and praise our God.

Our Theological Virtues are faith, hope, and love; not faith, hope and legalism.
 
GRATEFULONEjim said:
When was the last time you went to confession? Although being sick is a valid reason to miss Mass, it would do no harm to confess this along with any other sins as we take full advantage of this season of preparation.
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But it WASN’T a sin, certainly not a mortal one which is the only type of sin we are obligated to confess. Confession is meant to be genuine, not just confessing something ‘just in case,’ or because ‘it would do no harm to do so’. That’s making a mockery of contrition, imo.

We have to grow up, take responsibility for decisions, develop our ability to distinguish between what is real sin and what isn’t.
 
wanabesaint said:
Dont follow this stanch “you must go to mass on Sunday”!
Come a across a huge number of people who have been alienated, away from mass often by people who are to be leaders of the Church, and currently see a BIG example of this taking place. A person, who is under the Priest directly is alienating children away from the Mass. and to be blunt, its a long term situation, that has been declared and pointed out to the Priest, who fails to address it, but is only in the current finally seeing the light of a Tragidity of a reality that often happens. This must, and should be stood against.
Dont see how a priest himself can say mass, in face of he needs to admit the shortcoming of this existing, yet not being strong enough to address…
Alienation cannot be reasoned away, it must be healed. yet this has continued to be reasoned away. and for that, the priest is condoning it.

WE protest this. If children are being run off, we side with them, and dont go to mass either in protest, the Priest has directly had and knows this.

We are Catholic, and we dont tollerate such. to tollerate it is rather condoning

it.
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I’m sorry, there must be a language barrier because this made no sense to me. :o

We, as Catholics are obligated (yes, I used the word) to attend mass unless we have serious reason not to. We don’t stop attending in protest. If you don’t like what is happening in your parish then find a different parish to go to. Don’t just stop going to mass. You aren’t doing yourself or your children any favors.
 
Thank you for not attending Mass. Yes we must attend Mass on Sundays and Holy days but not if we have a valid reason–like illness, to stay home. My father is going through chemo and misses Mass frequently however when he feels well he goes. I would not appreciate someone who knows they are ill attending Mass and exposing him or others who are elderly or young to illness. You have a valid reason there is no sin involved.
Actually I consider the staying home a sacrifice when i am ill because like you I love Mass and hate to miss.
Praying you feel better soon.
 
Don_Jackson said:
I agree (but stand by, we’re gonna take a lot of heat)!

There are too many people who “faithfully” attend Mass physically, but not spiritually, and are hardly Catholic or Christian the rest of the day and week.

We should not attend Mass because of some “obligation” but for our desire to worship and praise our God.

Our Theological Virtues are faith, hope, and love; not faith, hope and legalism.
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Indeed. I don’t consider Mass, although it is, an obligation rather than something I want to do, to be with the Lord in the Eucharist (although I can’t receive it just yet).

OP, you did the right thing by not going to Mass and infecting others. May God bless you and may you be healthy enough to go to Mass soon.
 
paperwight66 said:
But it WASN’T a sin, certainly not a mortal one which is the only type of sin we are obligated to confess. Confession is meant to be genuine, not just confessing something ‘just in case,’ or because ‘it would do no harm to do so’. That’s making a mockery of contrition, imo.

We have to grow up, take responsibility for decisions, develop our ability to distinguish between what is real sin and what isn’t.
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Our priest tells us to confess anything that we see as troubling to our salvation. Mortal sins for sure must be confessed. It isn’t about “growing up”. Confession is an intimate experience between you and God. There is nothing that is not worth mentioning if it is troubling you. A by the book confession would only require a person to confess mortal sins. Many people choose to use the time for some spiritual direction also. This is now widely accepted.
 
Ask yourself this, would you have rather been at Mass than where you were? If the answer is yes, than you’re in the clear.
 
Thank you for your perspective on this folks! I feeling less guilty about it as I truly do think it would have been worse for me to attend than to stay at home. I think it’s the small errands I did that concern me, but it took no more than 20 minutes of my time.

My last confession was about 2 weeks ago, I’ll probably go again before Christmas.

And I do feel better.
 
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