Missing Mass Due To Super Busy!

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There are other options than working 60 hours a week. Maybe they will be in poverty. Maybe they will need roommates. Maybe they’ll have to lean on god for answers and hope, preferably making sure today we have bread. As someone poor, who’s been homeless, I sympathize. I really do. Being poor is scary and 60 hours at close to minimum wage feels like nothing.

Yet that’s upper middle class by worldwide standards if you look at average worldwide income.

God is worth it. And our sanity is worth it. It doesn’t feel like it when making those changes, but having more time is worth it. It really is. The bible tells us so.
 
hergratefulchild said:
Grave for missing Eucharist and th ob for that is once a year.
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I think you are confusing attendance at the Eucharist aka Mass, and receiving the Eucharist aka Holy Communion.

You are correct in that we are only obligated to receive the Eucharist once a year.

But we are obligated to attend Mass on Sundays and other Holy Days of Obligation whether or not we receive Holy Communion…
 
Tis_Bearself said:
By the way, many of us don’t exactly have lazy weekends, but we do our best to get to Mass anyway, and if we can’t, we deal with it in the way I described above.
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We have an obligation to make Sundays a day of rest, too, to the extent we are able.

Yes, it is better to focus our attention on challenging our own concept of what we’re able to do than to concern ourselves with how burdens we aren’t carrying ourselves are being managed. Everything you said is true, but of course we also concede that it is not our business to do more than to remind each other of what the targets are that we are all aiming at.
 
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Hey OP - go tell your Priest what happened and take his advice.

Nobody here has a better perspective on the situation than your priest would have…
 
Opal0427 said:
There are other options than working 60 hours a week. Maybe they will be in poverty. Maybe they will need roommates. Maybe they’ll have to lean on god for answers and hope, preferably making sure today we have bread. As someone poor, who’s been homeless, I sympathize. I really do. Being poor is scary and 60 hours at close to minimum wage feels like nothing.

Yet that’s upper middle class by worldwide standards if you look at average worldwide income.

God is worth it. And our sanity is worth it. It doesn’t feel like it when making those changes, but having more time is worth it. It really is. The bible tells us so.
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Remember we’re talking past an OP who works 50-60 hours a week and yet also avoids missing Mass for trivial reasons. We don’t know all the details, but it sounds as if the other party to a major purchase has changed the rules of the agreement after money changed hands. There may be many other aspects to this we don’t know. We do know that OP cannot attend Mass during the duration of the trip because doing so would incur cruelty to an animal. We could argue about whether the trip was necessary all day, but once you have an animal with you in 100 degree heat you are of course duty-bound to protect the animal from heat exhaustion.

The Church does not teach that Catholics are duty-bound to live in poverty if they can’t both avoid poverty and avoid ever working on Sundays. We seriously have to avoid binding up burdens beyond what those who have the pastoral necessity to do it have done. (Our Lord was very strict about chiding those who made that error, I think we all know that.)
 
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mrsdizzyd said:
Personally attacking people for telling you what the church teaches is not helping you at all.
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The OP has a good case that there have been additions to the teaching of the Church made by some posters. I think those who feel the criticism doesn’t apply to them can afford to look past the remark.
 
If we know something is more important to us than God, even poverty, And faith is shown through actions, we have an obligation to address that and pray for the grace to put God first.

Ita not about the technitcality of missimg mass. Its about the value of mass to our souls and oir relationship with God.

I can’t say I’m any better at this than the poster of this question. Yet, the truth is the same.

Life will be filled wih suffering. We’re here for a very short time and all of tbis passes away. Nothing has more value than our relationship with God. Nothing. And when we feel differently, that’s a lie in our hearts that must be recognized as such.

Building virtue is a lifelomg process. But what hope do we have if we dont acknowledge truth as truth in our hearts and do our absolute best to strive for it with God’s grace.

Our life here is like time in the womb. Its short and temporary and tranformative, but our only life is Christ.
 
Opal0427 said:
If we know something is more important to us than God, even poverty, And faith is shown through actions, we have an obligation to address that and pray for the grace to put God first.

Ita not about the technitcality of missimg mass. Its about the value of mass to our souls and oir relationship with God.

I can’t say I’m any better at this than the poster of this question. Yet, the truth is the same.

Life will be filled wih suffering. We’re here for a very short time and all of tbis passes away. Nothing has more value than our relationship with God. Nothing. And when we feel differently, that’s a lie in our hearts that must be recognized as such.

Building virtue is a lifelomg process. But what hope do we have if we dont acknowledge truth as truth in our hearts and do our absolute best to strive for it with God’s grace.

Our life here is like time in the womb. Its short and temporary and tranformative, but our only life is Christ.
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Your advice is fine; it is up to the OP to decide in what way it does or doesn’t apply to the original and subsequent posts concerning a particular situation. As the OP correctly points out, it is not possible for us to be familiar with the entire situation.

The OP never said that the 50-60 hour weeks normally included unnecessary servile work performed on a Sunday. I know many people who work at hospitals who of course have to work on Sundays. If sanctity and 60 hour weeks were mutually-exclusive, after all, we’d hardly have a holy parish priest on the planet.
 
What if your boss tells you “come to work on Sunday or you’re fired” and you can’t afford to be out of work long enough to look for another job?
 
BornInMarch said:
What if your boss tells you “come to work on Sunday or you’re fired” and you can’t afford to be out of work long enough to look for another job?
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The OP has already said they work out of their home. So they have far more control over their schedule than most people who are employed outside of the home.
 
I don’t recall the OP saying how much income they derive from this work, or how much margin for error there is. It could be that sometimes if you don’t work on Sunday you won’t be able to pay rent.
 
Dude, you are talking about a high end RV, not a nuclear submarine.

To ask the question, then go to attack mode when others do not answer that test driving a trailer is more important than Mass, step back and look at that.
 
Uh… generally people go to the anticipated Mass the night before if they have other things to do Sunday.
 
PetraG said:
We have an obligation to make Sundays a day of rest, too, to the extent we are able.
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We’re also supposed to be spending time with family. Which in my case often involves driving a few hours. Based on my experience, a lot of people who care for children or the elderly or just want to enjoy family time have responsibilities for things like caregiving and cooking and doing things for loved ones that they perhaps were not able to do the rest of the week.

You can be busy as a bee WITHOUT doing any “servile work”. And many of us, including me and the family I have left, are.
 
There are also those changes so the vehicle is safe.
 
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