Probably the gazillioneth "Missing Mass" question

[flameburns623]

My work is involves highly erratic schedules. Lots of weekends, holidays, evenings, overnights. They try to give me a schedule, but things can change on a dime. This makes it especially tough to maintain active attendance at Mass. Best “fix” is try to know, as best I can, the times of Masses @ multiple parishes. This weekend just past I opted to stop in on Sunday evening at a parish which I THINK has a 4:30 Sunday evening Mass. Get there after work, at 3:15 and find that the evening Mass is actually at 6. Prayed a Rosary, and other devotions but . . . 6 pm was just too late to stay, given I was gonna have to be up again early for a Monday shift. (And, something “warned” me THAT might change). Sure 'nuff: got home, got supper, and laid down. Head hit pillow at 7:30 PM, and the phone rings: ‘Had someone call off: grab an hour’s nap & come in’. So: I’m thinking: missing Sunday Mass this w/e was, AT WORST, a venial lapse, certainly nothing to preclude my receiving Communion next time I can make Mass. Thoughts?

 

[1ke]

Talk to your priest.

 

[roveau]

I bet you are a nurse. What ever your occupation, if you didn’t deliberately try to miss out on Mass, you didn’t commit a mortal sin. You seem to have done everything you could, even researching Mass times in other parishes. I can’t see where you have committed a sin.

 

[flameburns623]

I bet you are a nurse. What ever your occupation, if you didn’t deliberately try to miss out on Mass, you didn’t commit a mortal sin. You seem to have done everything you could, even researching Mass times in other parishes. I can’t see where you have committed a sin.

Don’t gamble with money you can’t afford to lose, LOL: I’m in a field related to law enforcement. ;-)) I DO, btw, try to ‘substitute’ a weekday Mass where it is impossible for me to make either Saturday evenings or Sunday Mass. Thanks for affirming that my ‘gut’ sense of this is the likely best read.