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Holland
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Are Catholics required to attend services on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Saturday nite, the Easter Vigil?
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reggieM
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No, it’s highly recommended to attend some or all, but the only requirement is Easter Sunday Mass (either the Vigil on Saturday or Sunday Mass).
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OutinChgoburbs
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While not required, it is the high point of the liturgical year.
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Friar_David_O.Carm
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The High Point is Easter and that is required.
I am not for requirements anyways. What is better, to be there becuase you want to be there our of Love for the Lord, or to be there becuase you have to be there?
I think that many people who only go to fulfill some obligation are not really there at all.
Spirituality is more than just following a set of rules, more than just fulfilling a list of requirements.
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whatevergirl
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Everyone answered already, but I just wanted to say…I highly encourage you to attend these services…they are amazing!!! Holy Thursday service is like no other…I just can’t wait to go!! :bounce:
If you do go, please post and let us know what you think???
God bless, and have a wonderful Easter,
WG
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OutinChgoburbs
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That’s what I mean…They are truly wonderful, and I look forward to it every year!!! I can’t imagine why a person wouldn’t want to go.Everyone answered already, but I just wanted to say…I highly encourage you to attend these services…they are amazing!!! Holy Thursday service is like no other…I just can’t wait to go!! :bounce:
If you do go, please post and let us know what you think???
God bless, and have a wonderful Easter,
WG
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Kielbasi
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No, there isn’t any obligation to attend.
That’s the one thing I miss, however, is when Good Friday was a civil holiday it was easy traditional service to attend. And of course back in the day, most businesses stayed closed in the afternoon of Good Friday as protestants as well attended GF services at their own church.
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steve99
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Agreed.Everyone answered already, but I just wanted to say…I highly encourage you to attend these services…they are amazing!!! Holy Thursday service is like no other…I just can’t wait to go!! :bounce:
If you do go, please post and let us know what you think???
God bless, and have a wonderful Easter,
WG
I would also like to add that a priest when talking about this said there are not three services, but one service spread over three days.
I found this a very helpful way of looking at them, and I urge everyone to attend all three.
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Holland
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Ok, I guess I better just come out with it. I can’t go to the parish where I am a regular member to attend these services and don’t get me wrong, I do want to attend. If I go to these services it will be at the local church and I am almost afraid to attend. The liturical abuses and just plain odd things that go on at the church would fill a book. But having said that, I can say the regular members there like that stuff so I am the odd person out. I guess I will go and just pray alot and hope nothing too outrageous happens. If I go Saturday nite do I have to go on Sunday?
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LilyM
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I think it’s preferable to go, even if there are liturgical abuses. After all, unless the consecration itself is invalid, Jesus is still physically present is he not? …
Saturday night should be fine - it’s not like there’s a separate Saturday Mass, it would have to be the vigil.
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JeffGuidry
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What of discipline? Most I imagine would rather be sleeping in on Sundays or drinking coffee and reading the paper rather than getting dressed and going to church. That’s exactly the point of the requirements. Though having an open and glad heart of going to church is the ideal, fulfilling the requirement is a step to understanding the sense in the requirement. If we all sat around and waited for the Spirit to move us, most of us wouldn’t move at all, we’d ask the Spirit to hit the snooze button.
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