Sunday Dilemma

[TruthSkr]

if you work on Sunday the logical time to attend Mass is Saturday evening, or Sunday evening after work of that is available in your area. No a social engagement chosen over the only Mass you can attend does not excuse your participation in the most sacred worship and duty of the Catholic. you cannot go to Mass and be fashionably late to your date?

no if you really are in the wilderness without transportation, or for any reason simply cannot get to Mass, you have no obligation, but that hardly applies in your first example, neither does the Peace Corps analogy.

It may not make a difference but the social engagement was actually an all day Saturday kayaking trip from 10 AM to 9 PM so I either gave up the trip, didn’t show for work on Sunday, or missed Mass. I couldn’t just be fashionably late. To expand on this, what if the social engagement was my mother-in-law’s 82nd birthday dinner on Saturday evening that my wife did not tell me about until after I agreed to work on Sunday which kept me from attending Saturday evening Mass? Would I be expected to miss such an important engagement and upset the whole family? This did happen.

So are you saying that if I were on an overnight sailing trip in an area where it was not possible to access a Catholic church that this would be the equivalent of being in the wilderness since, for all practical purposes, there is no way to get to Mass from a boat?

 

[Bookcat]

The Church wonderfully gives us the possibility of a dispensation…via ones actual Pastor. Especially helpful when there is any question in ones mind.

Even via phone

 

[ahs]

…I was absolutely NOT able to attend on Sunday but I went to one or two weekday masses instead. My priest said this was fine.

Since then, I was able to negotiate an arrangement with my employer so that I am able to attend an evening mass on Sunday (not at my parish).

Now I attend both…

That’s great that your employer worked with you on that!! It’s good to hear that there are employers out there that care.