Readings skipped at mass

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I have visited a neighboring parish several times recently. At my home parish there are typically two readings before the homily. At this other parish, no readings at all. It seems strange…I am wondering if this is common practice?
 
Are the readings sung?

One parish I went to - the First Reading was spoken and the second was a Responsorial Psalm that was sung by the congregation.
 
No…it’s odd…they are skipped entirely. In my home parish the homily is a reflection on the readings. In this other church, the homily seems random. Yesterday it was about ordinary time and having a break before lent. I didn’t get the point.
 
Yes…well known Roman Catholic Parish. In fact it shares a grade school with my parish.
 
The readings, as far as I’m aware, are always required at Mass. This is odd; I’ve never heard of the readings being omitted at Mass before.
 
I’ve never been to a Mass where readings were not done.

In fact, on the occasions when we couldn’t have Mass and just had a Communion Service instead, there were always readings for that too.
 
I wonder if it has anything to do with Feast Day for Martyrs of the Church, St Vincent and St Anastasius. Today is a day of Penance (FSSP)

Just a thought.
 
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CRV said:
Chapter VII: The Choice of the Mass and Its Parts
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This pretty much indicates the two readings and Psalm are required on Sundays. Thanks for posting it, CRV! I’m not sure why a parish priest would deviate from this.
 
Aren’t Sts Vincent and Anastasius on Jan 22? I thought it was St Fabian and Sebastian on Jan 20 and St Agnes on Jan 21, on the EF calendar also. Sunday of course does not have saint day commemorations.

In any event, I’ve never been to a saints day Mass, EF or OF, where readings were omitted. Sometimes there are alternate readings for the saint commemoration, but they never just skip all the readings.
 
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At a regularly scheduled Mass time, you all go from standing for the Opening Prayer to sitting while the priest begins his homily? Is that the correct understanding of this situation?
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To add on, OP, are you saying there is no Gospel read during the Mass?

Or are you saying the priest does the homily at the beginning of Mass, then the readings including the Gospel happen during the Mass at their regular time but the homily is not given after them? I do know priests who preach homily before Mass starts instead of after the readings. But they still do the readings.
 
You are right, looked on the wrong day in my diary. A day ahead of myself. Though it is the 22nd where I am now but wasn’t yesterday when I posted. Agreed I have not yet attended a Mass where the readings where omitted.

I wonder if the OP came in late to Mass and didn’t realise??
 
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In Germany, readings are regularly omitted. As are half the prayers. I think I’ve heard the confiteor all of about 3 times. In 11 years.
 
The Confiteor is not required to be said at Mass. There are several other forms of penitential rite that may be used. I hear the Confiteor at maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of Masses I attend. The other Masses use the different forms of penitential rite; none of them omit the penitential rite.

As for “readings being regularly omitted,” do you mean they say Mass without reading the Gospel?
 
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Same, even when there is not a priest there is a “Word and Communion Service” with readings and distrobution of pre-sanctified.

This is highly irregular.
 
If you are correct in what you are saying… This is one of those rare instances where I would ask the priest for clarification, and if I did not get a satisfactory answer I would reach out to the chancery.
 
I think I will go to mass there again to pay more attention but basically, missiles are in the back of the narthex on tables, so I grabbed one to follow along with the readings. It just wasn’t done. Music sung was unrelated to the readings…also strange to me as it seems most parishes choose music to fit the theme of the readings except for sung prayers/responses.
 
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