Thanksgiving Day Mass lasted 1 hour

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Thought it was unusual that a daily Mass would last 1 hr! I really didnt mind the length but I didnt plan on it and was late for a function. Given that today wasn’t a holy day of obligation or a Solemnity, I wonder if it was unusual for the priest to lengthen the Mass??!! Moreover, the daily reading from my Magnificit was neglected. Have no idea why the priest chose alternate readings. Is this permissible?
 
blaskoman said:
Thought it was unusual that a daily Mass would last 1 hr! I really didnt mind the length but I didnt plan on it and was late for a function. Given that today wasn’t a holy day of obligation or a Solemnity, I wonder if it was unusual for the priest to lengthen the Mass??!! Moreover, the daily reading from my Magnificit was neglected. Have no idea why the priest chose alternate readings. Is this permissible?
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1 hour is too much? UUUUUmmmmmmmm…
In Russia Orthodoxy it is 6 hours standing.
In Greek Vespers, 3 hours.
My cousins in Africa, they enjoy 5 hours masses…
I am not blaming you…
It is the Modern Times, you run by the clock, even the time given to God…Who happens to be in th ToDo list.

Again, nothing against you, just it is a signal of the times…
 
blaskoman said:
Thought it was unusual that a daily Mass would last 1 hr! I really didnt mind the length but I didnt plan on it and was late for a function. Given that today wasn’t a holy day of obligation or a Solemnity, I wonder if it was unusual for the priest to lengthen the Mass??!! Moreover, the daily reading from my Magnificit was neglected. Have no idea why the priest chose alternate readings. Is this permissible?
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  1. Thanksgiving is a special day in the US. 2. There is a special Mass for Thanksgiving - probably the priest used this one. 3. I don’t know how he would lengthen Mass, unless he chose to say the Gloria (the day is a Feast), or give a long homily. But, anyway, nothing out of the ordinary happened.
Also, there are votive Masses a priest can chose for many reasons.
 
Our Mass also lasted an hour, without Gloria or Creed, as is normal for a weekday Mass. A votive Mass was used. The offertory gifts, as had been previously announced in the bulletin, were to be canned goods, and at the offertory the people processed up the aisles to place them at the communion rail (yeah, we still have one.)

After Mass, the priests, the altar servers, and the congregation collected the food and walked the two city blocks in procession to the local soup kitchen, where we dropped off the donation. Thankfully, the weather was gorgeous.

I thought it was simply grand!
 
To be honest, when I first read the subject line (before I read anything else), I thought to myself, “How lucky!” Daily Mass is usually shorter because usually people have more places to go. But I think it was the thoughtful priest who took more time to celebrate a Mass fitting to the holiday and that maximized it’s effect for the people who took time out of Thanksgiving to get to Church. I would venture to guess that more than a few of them at Mass might not have had much else to celebrate that day. Making that Mass as lovely as he could was a gift to everyone who attended. I would count yourself as lucky.🤷
 
Our Mass a just short of an hour today. We had the full choir and about 450 people in attendance. Four priests concelebrated and two of them weren’t even American but still celebrated Thanksgiving. The homily was long but was about thanking God. There are different choices of readings for Thanksgiving so the priest has the choice as to which one he wants read.

We blessed loaves of bread at the end of mass and gave them to the people to share at their dinner table. It is a custom that our people have come to like.

Our Thanksgiving Mass used to be at 10 but a few years ago we moved it to 9 since people asked to make it earlier since they have to cook or go places. No one complains about the length of the Mass.
 
:bible1:
(Jesus speaking)
What? Could you not watch one hour with me?
- Matthew 26:40

+Our Daily Masses are always an hour . . . with a dedicated 1/2 hour before the Mass devoted to pray:gopray2:ing the Holy Rosary . . . *and there is a great turnout *. . . making time for the Lord is a precious privilege to be treasured second to none . . . not an inconvenience!

. . . all for Jesus+​
 
Doesn’t sound unusual for a mass that falls on a holiday during the week. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a mass on Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Labor Day, etc, that didn’t last close to an hour, definitely longer than the typical daily mass that falls on an ordinary day.
 
I’d guess that there were also extra EMs and more communicants in line, both of which can extend the length of a Mass.

For example, on Sundays there is a 7am Mass that takes about 45 minutes. It isn’t a heavily attended and the communion line is shorter. The later Masses are packed and they take about an hour and some change. The longer communion lines (and getting the EMs ready) makes for a longer Mass.

If you are late to some function, Mass is a good excuse.
 
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Pfaffenhoffen said:
1 hour is too much? UUUUUmmmmmmmm…
In Russia Orthodoxy it is 6 hours standing.
In Greek Vespers, 3 hours.
My cousins in Africa, they enjoy 5 hours masses…
I am not blaming you…
It is the Modern Times, you run by the clock, even the time given to God…Who happens to be in th ToDo list.

Again, nothing against you, just it is a signal of the times…
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👍 Modernist secularization of America and western Europe within the past 40 years has pushed more of an “anti-religious attitude”. We see it more during the Christmas seasons and has been escalating.

Why only 25 percent of American Catholics and only 5-12 percent of European Catholics attend Mass? Because of “worldly” humanist, secularist, liberalist, agnostic and atheist ideologues.

I too am just as “guilty” of putting God on a “Sunday day planner”. Mass, food shopping etc. We all have to as St. Paul said, “we must renew our minds”.

It is a challenge for us more today to live and defend our faith than 40 years ago. We even see it at Sunday Mass of “modernist, secularist” attitudes of people.

I have actually heard from people they love Father________ because of his 20-30 minute Mass from certain parishes. Pretty much what their faith is only the “speed Mass”, race out of the parking lot, and go about their “worldy” ways until the next Sunday. For many what did they get from Mass? Nothing, because of their “worldiness " sinfullness. By the way why are the Confession lines so small? Sorry, I attend confession at least once a month and constantly see the"small line” to Confessional and “huge lines” to receive Holy Communion.

We live in the world. we are called not to be of the world. “World” as Jesus said, is not the physical Earth we live on, but thoughts and actions that are contrary to God.

I once attended a Byzantine Rite Mass. I twice attended Tridentine Latin Rite Masses. By these experiences I have place more emphasis of faith, reverence, piety toward the Ordinary Form Mass which most of Latin rite Catholics attend today.
Research on Father Anabelle Bugnini and you will understand why Pope Benedict XVI has put in the Third Edition of the Roman Missal which we will experience on Sunday November 27 2011.
 
Pfaffenhoffen said:
1 hour is too much? UUUUUmmmmmmmm…
In Russia Orthodoxy it is 6 hours standing.
In Greek Vespers, 3 hours.
My cousins in Africa, they enjoy 5 hours masses…
I am not blaming you…
It is the Modern Times, you run by the clock, even the time given to God…Who happens to be in th ToDo list.

Again, nothing against you, just it is a signal of the times…
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In defense of the OP, they said they didn’t mind that Mass was longer, they were just surprised and wondered if this was common or not.
 
cecilia97 said:
Our regular daily Masses are often one hour. Be thankful. 😉
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What kind of community is it? Mostly retired? We have two daily masses. The 7AM is very quick since many commuters have to catch the train into the city and if they miss it they would be late for work. We have a 9 which is a bit longer but also there are a number of working people that attend and we have a very busy community. In all actuality without music and with only about 85-90 people in attendance I don’t see how it can go for more than a 1/2 hour unless the homily is very long. I remember in the old days of the pre-Vatican II masses, daily mass was usually 20 minutes. Also daily masses don’t go long since often there may be a funeral following the mass.
 
blaskoman said:
Thought it was unusual that a daily Mass would last 1 hr! I really didnt mind the length but I didnt plan on it and was late for a function. Given that today wasn’t a holy day of obligation or a Solemnity, I wonder if it was unusual for the priest to lengthen the Mass??!! Moreover, the daily reading from my Magnificit was neglected. Have no idea why the priest chose alternate readings. Is this permissible?
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since the Mass for Thanksgiving day is a votive Mass for the US only, he could have chosen the readings for the feast of the day. What were they? Don’t understand why Mass would not have taken about an hour.
 
Don’t forget that lots of families have guests for the holidays, that they bring to Mass. Some of these don’t often go to Mass, or are not Catholic.

Our priests and deacons showed up in force, and brought out all the smells and bells and chants and music. It was awsome, and I’m sure someone’s Baptist cousin who had never been to Mass was impressed.

That’s not the reason to have Mass, of course, but here in the deep south when one drives past closed Methodist and Baptist Churches on Thanksgiving day, it certainly doesn’t hurt.

-Tim-
 
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a Thanksgiving Day Mass that didn’t take at least an hour. (Well at since I started regularly attending them in 1980 or so.)

As has been mentioned, in the USA, there is a votive Mass for Thanksgiving. There are three readings and I think in most parishes it would be similar to one of the more popular Holy Day Masses.

In my parish the choir always sings for Thanksgiving. The people bring the bread and wine for their Thanksgiving Day meals to Mass to be blessed. This year only one of our priests was present but nine of our 10 deacons were there.
 
blaskoman said:
Thought it was unusual that a daily Mass would last 1 hr! I really didnt mind the length but I didnt plan on it and was late for a function. Given that today wasn’t a holy day of obligation or a Solemnity, I wonder if it was unusual for the priest to lengthen the Mass??!! Moreover, the daily reading from my Magnificit was neglected. Have no idea why the priest chose alternate readings. Is this permissible?
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To address your first comment/question about the length. Thanksgiving day Mass is not a normal daily Mass and probably you should expect a longer Mass. Ours was at about one hour. We had two readings, OT and Epistle, plus the Psalm and Gospel. We had a full choir. We had a deacon, very unusual for daily Mass. We had incense and four servers. We had a collection, and people bringing the gifts up during the offertory. We had a more lengthy homily. In other words, it was pretty much like a Sunday or solemnity. I don’t think it is at all unusual for the priest to “lengthen” the Thanksgiving Day Mass.

The daily reading from the Magnificat was not “neglected.” The priest chose another reading, as is his prerogative on this day. If you look in the ordo, yesterday was the memorial of St Andrew Dung-Lac and companions (Vietnamese martyrs). The priest was was allowed to use either the standard readings for Thursday of the 34th week in ordinary time, or the optional readings of the memorial. Or he could choose the the votive Thanksgiving Day Mass. These readings are in the lectionary for ritual Masses, and there were four choices for each of the OT, Epistle, and Gospel. So, there were a possible six different sets of readings! And the priest is not only within his authority to choose one of those sets of readings, he is required to do so.
 
Liturgy was it’s usual hour and 10 minutes, plus an after-liturgy reflection by our subdeacon, lasting about 10 minutes.

Note, tho: the Russian Orthodox services are usually only about 1.5 to 2 hours for sundays, and about an hour and 10 minutes for weekday liturgies. But they also typically attend matins (another hour). And they also usually do vespers saturday night.
 
Ours was about the same length as a typical Sunday Mass, and was attended by about as many people. It was quite nice!

No collection was taken, and we went straight from the homily to the “prayers of the faithful” (no profession of faith), butnother than that, it was more like a Sunday Mass than a daily Mass.
 
its the music. On feasts days (like Thanksgiving is in the US) there tends to be more extensive music than at daily mass. This can add up really fast. The choirs sings a few extra versus or songs and boom, Mass is 10-20 minutes longer.
 
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