Please STOP Leaving Mass Early Right After Communion!

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Not a friendly atmosphere IMO.

If people leave after the sermon at least they made it to Church and should get respect. Again IMO.
 
Let it be known to the early leavers that there are plenty of coffee and danishes at the coffee shop. So you arrive 10 to 15 Minutes later because to stick around for the end of Mass. They will not run out of coffee or doughnuts. 😊:coffee:🍩
 
By the same argument it isn’t common to hear ‘sisters and brothers’. It is always ‘brothers and sisters’.
 
Hardly the lighter side… May be the most serious early leave ever
 
How about we issue everybody one of those carnival tickets as they come in the door and at the end after the final blessing and priest exiting, pull a number for a 100 dollar prize. Must be Present to Win.
 
That meme is actually paraphrasing St. John Chrysostom who said:

“He who leaves the church right after Holy Communion resembles Judas who left the Apostles as soon as he had received the Body of Christ.”

Source: Schudlo, Rev. M., compiler. My Divine Friend, 1959.
 
The Mass/Divine Liturgy has 4 purposes:

1) Adoration
2) Thanksgiving
3) Propitiation
4) Supplication

which you can see in the following prayer:

OFFERING AT THE BEGINNING OF MASS

Eternal Father, I unite myself with the intentions and affections of our Lady of Sorrows on Calvary, and I offer Thee the Sacrifice which Thy beloved Son Jesus made of Himself on the cross, and now renews on this holy altar: 1) To adore Thee and give Thee the honor which is due to Thee, confessing Thy supreme dominion over all things, and the absolute dependence of everything upon Thee, Who art our one and last end. 2) To thank Thee for innumerable benefits received. 3) To appease Thy justice, irritated against us by so many sins, and to make satisfaction for them. 4) To implore grace and mercy for myself, for — , for all afflicted and sorrowing, for poor sinners, for all the world, and for the holy souls in purgatory.

Ind. of 300 days. - Pius X. July 8, 1904.*
  • This is now called a partial indulgence.
Source: Callan, V. Rev. C., O.P. & McHugh, V. Rev. J.A., O.P. Blessed Be God: Complete Catholic Prayer Book. 1925, P.J. Kenedy & Sons, New York, NY, pp. 99-100.

Try praying this before Mass. It will help you immensely.

P.S. The blank in the prayer for #4 is for those whom you wish to pray.
 
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Margaret_Ann said:
That meme is actually paraphrasing St. John Chrysostom who said:

“He who leaves the church right after Holy Communion resembles Judas who left the Apostles as soon as he had received the Body of Christ.”

Source: Schudlo, Rev. M., compiler. My Divine Friend, 1959.
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Again, you (generic plural, for those didn’t understand) don’t know WHY a particular person is leaving early. To liken them to Judas is unjust and uncharitable, at the very least.
 
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Don’t rush so much in your judgment. When my dd was an infant I would let her with my husband during mass time (he refused to step a foot in the church). Toward the end of Mass sometime he would start sending me messages ‘the baby doesn’t stop crying, the baby pooped all over etc’ and more than once I rushed home just after communion. I am sure more than one person judged me but in my case was a rushed mass vs no mass at all. You never know what is going on in somebody’s life.
 
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I know this would cause a revolt by liberals in some parishes but saying the Leonine Prayers after OF Mass might help in leading some to stay.
 
Wow—is this in the Arch? I’ve never seen this; not sure how I’d react.
 
I only remarked that it was based on a quote of St. John Chrysostom. Please don’t rush to judgement in my regard. Thank you.
 
While I personally wouldn’t leave mass early, some may have reasons as to why they do. Some may have family matters, others might have work. The point is we shouldn’t rush to judgement of others when we don’t know their circumstance. It’s very easy to look down at those people and talk down. But it’s very hard to understand the life circumstances of other people in your parish.

I think it would be better to leave judgements or pronouncements against those people to God.
 
If you attend a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Divine Liturgy, before the Creed the deacon/priest exclaims: “The doors, the doors! Wisdom, let us be attentive!”

Reason: During persecution, the doors were guarded against intruders. Only Catholics in the state of sanctifying grace could receive Holy Communion. Everyone else - amscray (btw, that’s pig Latin 😉). Or as is announced before a conclave: “Extra omnes!”
 
I’m pretty sure the issue is not about one or two leaving. As stated earlier in many cases there is s noticeable difference in attendance from before communion to after. I’m gonna flat out make a ‘judgment’ that it ain’t all emergencies. It’s a problem and it concerns the salvation of souls. The ‘who am I to judge’ is used by some to shirk their duty that is the Spiritual Works of Mercy.
 
Ok, but we’re still called to not judge others. I didn’t say every case is an emergency. What I’m saying is that it’s not my place to pass judgement upon others. I can disagree with it, but disagreement and judgement are different things. And at my parish I don’t think I’ve seen anyone leave after communion. Mostly because I’m not focusing on what others do. I’m trying to improve upon my relationship with God.
 
I do. One of my favorite parts of the mass when the priest says about God blessing us. I love it.

I need God’s blessings all the time.
 
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