Saints

[kiamonster]

Hi! I have been trying to find what saint began the Saturday morning mass. Can anyone help? My priest believes it was St. Dominic (don’t know which one). I can’t find anything any place. Thanks.

 

[Tantum_ergo]

Hi! I have been trying to find what saint began the Saturday morning mass. Can anyone help? My priest believes it was St. Dominic (don’t know which one). I can’t find anything any place. Thanks.

Saturday morning? I’m not sure what you mean. Masses have been said on weekday and weekend ‘mornings’ (as well as noon, evening, and night) for 2000 years.

Now, if you mean the concept of “Saturday after 4 to 5 p.m.” (that is, the EVENING VIGIL) serving to meet the Sunday obligation, that’s a different story, but Saturday morning would not be the vigil.

 

[PAboy57]

are you thinking about 5 first saturdays to honor the BVM?

generally i thought saturday was a day to offer up to her.

 

[PAboy57]

found this and feel free to read the rest at the website below.

mariancatechist.com/formation/mary/saturdays/index.html

Saturdays Devoted to the Virgin
Honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday was first “officially” promoted by Saint Alcuin (735-804), the Benedictine monk who was “Minister of Education” for the court of Charlemagne and who contributed in a decisive manner to the Carolingian liturgical reform. He composed different formulas for Votive Masses for each day of the week, with two set aside to honor Our Lady on Saturday. This practice was quickly and enthusiastically embraced by both clergy and laity, the Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday eventually becoming the Common of the Blessed Virgin.

 

[ConstantineTG]

Saturday morning? I’m not sure what you mean. Masses have been said on weekday and weekend ‘mornings’ (as well as noon, evening, and night) for 2000 years.

Now, if you mean the concept of “Saturday after 4 to 5 p.m.” (that is, the EVENING VIGIL) serving to meet the Sunday obligation, that’s a different story, but Saturday morning would not be the vigil.

I thought in the early Church they only met and broke bread during The Lord’s Day.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

I thought in the early Church they only met and broke bread during The Lord’s Day.

See Acts 2:47

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they partook of food with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

It appears to me that they met daily in the Temple for a Liturgy of the Word and continued a Liturgy of the Eucharist [Breaking Bread] in their homes.

 

[kiamonster]

We had a lady from out of state who visited our area. She wanted a church that offered mass on Sat. mornings. Ours was the only one out of 11 she called who offered a mass on Sat. mornings. She and our priest were talking about that. She thought it came from Fatima and he thought it came from St. Dominic. He asked me to research it. I am finding nothing. Ours is at 8 AM every morning except Sunday.

 

[Tantum_ergo]

We had a lady from out of state who visited our area. She wanted a church that offered mass on Sat. mornings. Ours was the only one out of 11 she called who offered a mass on Sat. mornings. She and our priest were talking about that. She thought it came from Fatima and he thought it came from St. Dominic. He asked me to research it. I am finding nothing.

Ah. Well, if there are not too many churches in your area which offer a Saturday morning mass, it probably has to do with the fact that so many now offer a Saturday vigil. If your area does not have too many priests (many areas have priests who must service parishes many miles apart) they might not have the time to offer both a morning Mass at perhaps two or three churches, plus the Vigil Masses, plus weddings which are traditionally scheduled on Saturdays in many churches.

But the fact is, many many churches offer daily Mass, of which Saturday is certainly one of the days.

And no, it didn’t come about from Fatima or St. Dominic.
You might find this interesting: From the Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent) we see this:

For Augustine nothing is more certain than that every religion, whether true or false, must have an exterior form of celebration and worship ( XIX.11Reply to Faustus). This applies as well to Christians (l. c., xx, 18), who “commemorate the sacrifice consummated (on the cross) by the holiest oblation and participation of the Body and Blood of Christ” (celebrant sacrosancta oblatione et participatione corporis et sanguinis Christi). The Mass is, in his eyes ( X.20City of God), the “highest and true sacrifice” (summum verumque sacrificium), Christ being at once “priest and victim” (ipse offerens, ipse et oblatio) and he reminds the Jews (Adv. Jud, ix, 13) that the sacrifice of Malachias is now made in every place (in omni loco offerri sacrificium Christianorum). He relates of his mother Monica (Confess., ix, 13) that she had asked for prayers at the altar (ad altare) for her soul and had attended Mass daily.

St. Augustine lived from AD 354 to AD 430.

So as early as the mid to late 4th century his mother was ‘attending Mass daily’ (which would include Saturday).

Very likely even the persecuted Christians (before Christianity became ‘legal’ to practice) would meet daily, if they could.