Missing Mass

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DrCat:
Father,

Thank you for your answer. I have tried telling him that myself but he gets up on his “I have a degree in Theology and used to work in a diocesis” horse and tells me I don’t know Canon Law (something I must admit is true). I have searched for documentation, but I have found nothing. I have decided that this is one of those areas where the correct answer is so obvious that nobody has ever written about it. (The correct answer being that we are obligated until the day after our funeral.)

I’ll tell him what you told me, and hope that is enough.
The confrontational way to respond to that is to point out that many of our worse catachetical instruction, poor theological ideas, and all around garbage that is in the CHurch today is from people with PhDs in theology who run diocesis and schools. The only thing that the aged are exempted from are things like fasting during Lent. It is still meritorious for them to do so if they can, but they do not have to. Years ago, I would attend Mass at the Our Lady of the Angels Monastary at EWTN. There was a very, very old priest who was co-celebrant. To tell him he was not required to even attend would have been an insult to him.

The aged are some of the greatest testaments to the faith. The old women praying the rosary, the old men standing firm through the years while younger men skip to watch football. No, they are needed, not exempted
 
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LindaS:
I will be 63 in Sept. and I strongly resent your friend’s assumption that people over 65 are too infirm to attend Mass regularly! While there are many people over 65 who ARE infirm, so there are many UNDER 65 who are also infirm. Age has nothing, or very little, to do with it. BTW, I also observe the Lenten fasts even tho I am dispensed from them. Thank you for being concerned enough about the legitimacy of this to seek information.

Peace,
Linda
Linda,

I’m not 65 and I resented it. My mother never stopped going to Church, and she was somewhat over 65 when she died.
 
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Tom:
I wish that i could, however being a helicopter pilot 100 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday is a real problem, I guess i could quit and sell shoes?
Good question. If this is, in fact, the case for you… how about you ask your confessor next time you go to Confession for how you can practically observe the Sabbath…

like, could he give you a dispensation to attend Mass on a weekday in place of the Sabbath?

Just curious…

:o
 
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LindaS:
I will be 63 in Sept. and I strongly resent your friend’s assumption that people over 65 are too infirm to attend Mass regularly!
Imagine Pope John Paul (or Mother Angelica) being dispensed from saying Mass (or attending Mass.)
 
CMOM,

You received many good comments on this topic. Don’t forget, if you must miss Mass, do what you can to have someone from your church bring you Communion. I have, in the past when I could not make it to Mass due to sickness or other serious reasons, watched Mass on EWTN and arranged with the church to have someone bring me Communion at my home. Most churches have Lay Eucharist Ministers of Holy Communion who will do this. I am an LEMHC and do this for others.
 
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