Planning to miss Mass... what do I do?

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Btw my cholesterol and BP is pretty good. Pretty pretty pretty good.
 
May the Ghosts of Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings haunt your nightmares.
 
A litany is in order Father. Garth, and kenny Rogers, and statler bros, kicks and ronnie, etc
 
And Dwight Yoakam. His song Back of Your Hand was how I made it through deacon year.
 
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I object to the country music part of this statement, unless the cutoff is 2001. Before that, it’s not torture. After that, all bets are off.
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I would cut off slightly earlier, but I agree with your basic point. Except Brad Paisley. He’s an exception to the cut off date.
 
“Alexa, play 90s country” uttered by me 30 seconds ago in honor of bodlygo. My children are rolling their eyes and I’m sure boldly go is now a swear word in our house.
 
I made my son listen to Waylon Jennings when I picked him up from school today.
 
Oh my gosh! You hit the mother load! Thanks now my evening is shot listening to all of those!
 
As noted, one is allowed to schedule one’s vacation and if that scheduling makes attending Mass impossible, one may still schedule it as such. I seriously doubt that people go out of their way to schedule a vacation for the purpose of missing Mass. You are pushing the issue that one "could of course schedule it differently’. That is not always the case.

If you choose to schedule vacation around attending Mass, that is laudable. Not required; laudable. And it is not for you to imply that others who have not done so are less than laudable.

From the OP’s statement, it appears they scheduled vacation, and then realized that they were not able to attend Mass. The Church permits them to do that, had they started at the other end of the process (in other words, asking themselves “What about Sunday” before scheduling) they still could schedule it as they did - they are not doing so for the purpose of missing Mass.
 
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The you obviously think differently that the Church. You are most welcome to for yourself, but have no right to lay that burden on someone else when the Church does not.
 
You can always make an act of perfect contrition over the weekend, then bring it up in Reconciliation the following weekend if you’re still worried about it.
 
We’re missing two Sundays in February for a Panama Canal cruise on Princess Cruise Lines. I don’t see how we’ll be able to attend mass for those two weeks. I don’t believe they’ll have a priest onboard, but we’ll ask once there. This thread was timely for us.
 
Why? Confession is for confessing sins. Why would you confess something that isn’t a sin? We’ve been over it a few times in this thread and several others. It isn’t sinful to miss Mass if you can’t go. It isn’t sinful in itself to go somewhere Mass isn’t available.

-Fr ACEGC
 
I wouldn’t think confession is warranted. Also. Can you explain how to make an act of perfect contrition?
 
I said “bring it up,” not confess it as a mortal sin. If it’s still bothering her.
 
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