Sunday Obligation, simple question

[Elizium23]

No, the precept to attend Catholic Mass is grave matter for Catholics according to the law that binds Catholics.

A Catholic who went to Mass and profaned the Sabbath anyway would sin mortally.
A Catholic who missed Mass but prayed the Office five times and read the Bible for an hour would likewise sin mortally.
A Methodist who did the former would sin mortally, and a Methodist who did the latter would not sin at all.

Methodists are not bound by a Catholic precept to attend their own services, because the Church has no jurisdiction over them. If Methodist leaders decree that there is some prescription for keeping the Sabbath holy for Methodists, then perhaps a Methodist sins mortally by disobeying her leaders. I don’t know, and I don’t care, that’s not really a matter for the Catholic Church to worry about.

 

[Kmon23]

As a Methodist, she has no specific law or teaching telling her what to do to keep the Sabbath holy. She can pray, read the Bible, go to a Methodist service, or whatever the Spirit directs her to do. I am assuming good faith in that she did something on Sunday other than go to the beach and work on her tan.

Thanks to everyone for the responses (and I’m a male by the way).
Just curious as to where you got the information on me being a Methodist, unless this is meant to be applied to someone else (since I was raised primarily in the United Methodist Church until my conversion this year to start growing in the Catholic faith, although I don’t think this info is presented anywhere on my profile?)

I am assuming good faith in that she did something on Sunday other than go to the beach and work on her tan.

On that day my sister and I were resting in bed since we were sick. However, I asked the question because I do understand the gravity of missing Mass as per Sunday Obligation and whether my failure to maybe have planned a little ahead to ensure I attended Mass was a sin (of any kind, be it mortal or venial).

And for clarification, I am yet in RCIA (although I’m studying a lot through Catholic Answers) because it does not start until January it seems at my school.

 

[Kmon23]

On that day my sister and I were resting in bed since we were sick.

Actually this is a mistake on my part (horrible memory) as I got mixed up between Paris (rested for the day) and London. Going back and looking at the schedule, my sister and I were actually in London waiting to go to the airport to go home, and I was sick so before the airport I just ended up eating soup at a restaurant and rested and because there was no Mass nearby at a suitable time I could go to. However my inability to go to Mass at a proper time during this day was largely due to the time we reached London and when the airplane departure was. This was the result of leaving the Europe trip planning to my sister, who is a general Christian that doesn’t really see Sunday Obligation as seriously as Catholics would. I just didn’t think to maybe aid in the planning process concerning this day and so have I sinned for not having been able to go to Mass because I could have maybe altered when I got to London so I could have gone to Mass at maybe an earlier time?

And another question about sinning is if I have sinned if it is my fault for unable to go to Mass. While I was in Venice on a Sunday, I had plans to go to Mass in the afternoon. My sister wanted me to visit this pretty island via boat and so I agreed. I was just in the hostel with my sister thinking I had enough time and then we left for the island. However, the boats actually took over an hour to get to the island and we only looked on the island for a few minutes before we immediately just waited for another boat to come pick us up back to the main island so I could go to Mass. Unfortunately, I got back nearly an hour after Mass started (so I missed Mass). In this case have I sinned because maybe if I said no to my sister initially I could have gone to Mass?