Noticing a Trend for Mid-week evening Mass

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One parish church in my city has a 6p Wed Mass which I think is great. I’ve started noticing this in other cities. Is anything like this happening in your area? Please share!
 
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I didn’t honestly think that the evening Mass on Wednesdays was a new thing as we have had it here on Wednesday evenings for years! Frankly, I wish we had a choice of either an early Mass or an evening Mass on most of the other days! That way, people that work would have the opportunity to attend more. Was this a fairly recent occurrence for your parish?

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We’ve had it in our parish for years also.

What I have found in our community though, is more and more protestants are starting to have Saturday “informal” services.
 
We’ve been having a Wednesday evening Mass too, especially during Lent and Advent. Yay! So many people who can’t get there in the morning attend. Thanks to our hard working priests in the Seattle area where we have so many Catholics and so few priests.
 
We have a 5:15pm every weekday, along with a 12:10 pm, but not anything special on mid-week.
 
My parish has Mass at 8:00 a.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays.

I never understood why the midweek (Wednesday) Mass was in the evening and all the others in the morning. If they had an evening Mass every day of the week I’d make an effort to go, but I can’t do that because, as seen above, it’s all morning.
 
My parish has 6:30 a.m MOnday, THursday, and Friday, and a 12:15 pm on Wednesdays. Another nearby church has 7:15 a.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday with 5:15 p.m on Wednesdays.

It’s been like that for years. Our former pastor used Tuesdays for his day off, so having a later Mass on Wednesdays might have helped with that. I think that (the priest’s day off) has something to do with the nearby church’s schedule, as well.
 
Our only weekday evening Mass is also on Wednesday at 7:00pm (followed by Reconciliation at 7:30pm - FWIW, the other scheduled time for Reconciliation is Saturday morning after the 9:00am Mass).
 
My TLM parish has a High Mass Wednesday Evenings at 6PM with a great schola and reverent priest w/ an army of altar servers myself included;😃
 
rosary_kat said:
One parish church in my city has a 6p Wed Mass which I think is great. I’ve started noticing this in other cities. Is anything like this happening in your area? Please share!
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Parishes that are accessible have evening Masses in our diocese. Those that are further into the suburbs, like my parish, doesn’t have one except during First Friday.
 
I would love to go to an evening weekday mass. Ours are at 12:15 and I don’t usually make it. IMO, weds is perfect because it’s midweek and by then most people could use a good visit with God in the mass. Plus, it’s borrowing from the protestants weds services.
 
I don’t go to daily Mass at my own parish (where it’s 7:30 in the morning) but at a parish near where I work that has Mass every day at 5:15pm. The regulars come from all the local parishes because the evening Mass works better for us.

I don’t understand why parishes don’t coordinate more on Mass times. There are seven parishes near me. Six of them have Mass starting from 7 to 8:30, one also has a Mass at noon, and then there’s one Mass at 5:15.
 
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I don’t go to daily Mass at my own parish (where it’s 7:30 in the morning) but at a parish near where I work that has Mass every day at 5:15pm. The regulars come from all the local parishes because the evening Mass works better for us.

I don’t understand why parishes don’t coordinate more on Mass times. There are seven parishes near me. Six of them have Mass starting from 7 to 8:30, one also has a Mass at noon, and then there’s one Mass at 5:15.
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Its not lack of coordination. Sometimes its just the demand of the parishioners
 
ConstantineTG said:
Its not lack of coordination. Sometimes its just the demand of the parishioners
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Actually, I think it’s the convenience of the priests. Obviously the parishioners want it or they wouldn’t go to a different parish to find a Mass at a time they can attend.
 
We’ve had a daily 520pm Mass for as long as I can remember (along with a 730am)
 
We have a 12:05 Mass on most weekdays except Weds we have a 6:00 Mass followed by reconciliation. That really works for me because I can go to the 6:00 Mass on my way home from work and then go to reconciliation.
 
My parish has a 7:30am and a 9:15am mass. Except on Wednesdays the 9:15am was moved to 7:00pm with adoration until 8:30pm once the mass was complete.

I believe that this is a growing trend to allow day-workers and school-students to be able to attend at least one mass during the week.
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
Actually, I think it’s the convenience of the priests. Obviously the parishioners want it or they wouldn’t go to a different parish to find a Mass at a time they can attend.
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I can’t speak for your diocese, but in our area, it’s for the parishioners. I know several local parishes that have over the course of the years changed Mass times, and the priest always consults parishioners. I don’t know a time when it hasn’t been done that way. There will always be some who can’t attend (I’ve been one of those, at one time I had very specific time needs and had to go elsewhere), so the priest looks at what the majority prefers. I doubt many priests want an empty parish.

However, to some degree the schedule of the priest has to make a difference. Our priest offers things in the evening such as a Bible study and RCIA, things that working people would also like to attend or, like RCIA, need to attend.

But back to the original question, in addition to daily Mass our priest also offers some Wednesday nights and has for years.
 
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