"Should we have to attend Sunday Mass?" A priest tells of the obligation of Catholics to go to Sunday mass

[mdgspencer]

Should we have to attend Sunday Mass? – Catholic Philly

"The obligation for Catholics to attend Sunday Mass under penalty of grave sin is a precept of the church, a specification of the Third Commandment to ‘Keep holy the Sabbath.’”

“Pope John Paul II noted that at first no written rule was necessary due to the ‘inner need felt so strongly by the Christians of the first centuries,’ and that ‘only later, faced with the halfheartedness or negligence of some,’ the church felt it necessary to make explicit the duty to attend Sunday Mass.”

 

[Vico]

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Yes. So it was incorporated into canon law also:

Canon 1247
On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass; they are also to abstain from those labors and business concerns which impede the worship to be rendered to God, the joy which is proper to the Lord’s Day, or the proper relaxation of mind and body.

Canon 1248
1. The precept of participating in the Mass is satisfied by assistance at a Mass which is celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the holy day or on the evening of the preceding day. …

 

[Roseeurekacross]

I am missing Mass today due to pain . There is no sin in that. We really must be careful not to discount exceptions.