Valid dispensation?

[DavidJoseph]

Some of you may know I attend an indult Tridentine Latin Mass parish staffed by the FSSP. I learned recently that there are some in the parish who, if they’re out of town and won’t be able to find a licit Tridentine Mass, will go to our priest and get a dispensation from their Sunday obligation. The parishioners in question can’t stand Novus Ordo Masses because of what they consider disrespect and irreverence, which infuriates them. However, regardless of any disrespect or irreverence, whether real or perceived, I don’t think it’s a valid reason to miss Mass. And I don’t understand how a priest could allow someone to dispense with their Sunday obligation for that reason. It would seem to me there’s at least objective sin here, but on whose part? On the part of those missing Mass, or on the part of the priest for giving a dispensation without a good reason?

 

[mercygate]

I think it’s more about growing up. Nobody gets crankier than I about tacky liturgy. But heck, if Jesus can show up on an altar surrounded by slovenly altar girls, to the accompaniment of 10th-rate folk/pop music badly played on cheap instruments, then so can I.

They need to get a little perspective: after all, on a normal Sunday, they get their liturgy custom tailored to their personal taste. Failing to attend the Heavenly banquet because they don’t like the etiquette is kinda greedy if you ask me.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

DavidJoseph:

Some of you may know I attend an indult Tridentine Latin Mass parish staffed by the FSSP. I learned recently that there are some in the parish who, if they’re out of town and won’t be able to find a licit Tridentine Mass, will go to our priest and get a dispensation from their Sunday obligation. The parishioners in question can’t stand Novus Ordo Masses because of what they consider disrespect and irreverence, which infuriates them. However, regardless of any disrespect or irreverence, whether real or perceived, I don’t think it’s a valid reason to miss Mass. And I don’t understand how a priest could allow someone to dispense with their Sunday obligation for that reason. It would seem to me there’s at least objective sin here, but on whose part? On the part of those missing Mass, or on the part of the priest for giving a dispensation without a good reason?

With the assumption that the priest was told exactly why they were not able to attend Mass. If he was not decieved he holds some of the responsibility for misleading them by granting the dispensation from the sunday obligation if he knew that was the reason. They may have told him something else however. In which case they hold all the responsibility themselves.