Please STOP Leaving Mass Early Right After Communion!

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Please STOP Leaving Mass Early Right After Communion!

You’ve almost certainly seen it. It’s a problem at virtually all Catholic parishes I’ve been to: some Catholics will attend Mass, receive communion… and then immediately leave Mass before it’s finished. Please stop doing this! The Mass is the “source and summit of the Christian life.
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You’ve almost certainly seen it. It’s a problem at virtually all Catholic parishes I’ve been to: some Catholics will attend Mass, receive communion… and then immediately leave Mass before it’s finished.

Please stop doing this!

What we should stop doing is judging the person who arrives late, or leaves early, or has a cell phone go off…without first knowing what’s going on in their life…were they late because they were caring for a sick loved one, did they leave early for the same reason, did their phone go off because the hospital called?

Just saying!
 
yankeesouth said:
I don’t go to OF anymore but when I did there always was a noticeable difference in attendance from before communion to after.
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Not sure why you feel compelled to turn this into a claim that those participating in the OF are somehow more reverent than those participating in the EF…It is offensive, uncharitable, and untrue.
 
Lex orandi, lex credendi.

That’s all I will say.

I’ve been that person many times, when I allowed mediocrity to take hold of my life.
 
It’s my experience so it certainly is true. Obviously I ain’t the only one as per the OP. It is an issue of poor catechesis. Since when are the Spiritual Works of Mercy uncharitable?
 
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yankeesouth:
I don’t go to OF anymore but when I did there always was a noticeable difference in attendance from before communion to after.
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Not sure why you feel compelled to turn this into a claim that those participating in the OF are somehow more reverent than those participating in the EF…It is offensive, uncharitable, and untrue.
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I think you may mean LESS reverent?
 
Bottom line is we can all get bothered about this as much as we care to, but some people are still going to keep leaving after Communion for a variety of reasons.

They miss out on the final blessing, it’s their loss.
 
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While people shouldn’t leave early, there are sometimes reasons why they must. I had to leave early a couple of times when my mother was having cancer surgery and I was getting phone calls on her condition. I know some will say that it could have waited, but that wasn’t anyone’s choice to make but mine. Keep your eyes on your own paper. You don’t know what other peple are going through.
 
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To the author of that blog article I might say “Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother’s eye.”
 
I’m not one that leaves Mass right after Communion, but as long as we’re complaining, I do wish my parish would shorten or eliminate the “announcements” and not read the entire contents of the bulletin before the final blessing.
 
Yes. My husband and I wondered if these can be said in the beginning instead.

And one more thing that puzzled me is in scripture you’ll read “Brothers and Sisters” and at Mass I’m hearing sisters and brothers, this was a change. It’s not the biggest deal in the world I understand but why?
 
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I agree. If you have to make announcements there, keep it to 2 minutes. I much preferred the practice of my hometown parish that made announcements at the beginning before the opening hymn and the priest coming in.

After Communion when we are still in the holy state of having received is not when I want to hear some long speech with applause congratulating every sports team at the elementary school on their season. And a whole lot of people just up and walk out if that continues for more than 1 minute.
 
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Actually, those who attend EF masses are by and large more reverent and more orthodox
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Actually it is impossible for one to make such as claim…true reverence is not just how one celebrates the Mass, but how one lives his life…and its impossible to conclude that those who attend EF Masses are “Actually”, or even “by and large” for reverent.
 
Yes and this is a problem I have with the article link in the OP. I agree with the point that we should stay until the end barring a legitimate reason to leave early. We should not make a habit of leaving early. But I don’t agree with the author’s tone. From the article: if you leave early then “then you simply aren’t a practicing Catholic,” or you are practicing “spiritual mediocrity.” This seems like an “I’m a better Catholic than you are, I’m a better Catholic than you” conceit.
 
That’s interesting. I thought it was something that was officially changed. Thank you
 
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