What is the best Mass you have ever been to?

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My mother’s funeral Mass, during which I’m absolutely certain I felt the power of the Holy Spirit.

And one shortly before a parish penance service several years ago. The priest gave his homily on sin, confession, reconciliation, etc., and he openly, albeit briefly, discussed his struggle with drinking to excess. Later that evening, I went to him and did face-to-face confession for the first time in decades.

I always remember that when I don’t have the courage to go go confession.
 
I believe the best mass I went to was the Latin mass I drove four hours to attend. I went there and back on the same day.
 
The most moving Mass was my first Easter vigil at my FSSP parish. Every single word is solemnly chanted, and the first part of the Mass which takes two hours and includes chanting all the readings of the Old Testament, is done in candlelight, no electric lights at all.

Then around midnight all the lights come on, and the altar servers remove the purple veils from all the statues, to reveal the statues that were covered during Lent and all the Easter lilies all around the sanctuary. You truly experience going from darkness to light while at the vigil.
 
That sounds amazing. I assume this was a pre-1955 Easter Vigil?
 
Nope, current (1962 lol) missal. Some parishes were approved just last year to celebrate the Holy Week according to the earlier missal but ours wasn’t part of it. Hopefully it will be in the future.
 
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Easter vigil when my children got baptized and my wife got confirmed and had her first communion.

When it was my 4 year old daughter’s turn to get baptized, she filled the silent church with a very innocent and convicted “I get to get BAPTIZED now!? Yaaaaay! Come on mommy daddy I get to be BAPTIZED!”
She then toddled up as fast as she could to the alter to take her spot at the fountain.

Not a dry eye in the church (at least in my family’s pew)!

I’ll remember that forever.
And I can’t wait for HER first communion 🙂
 
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The best Masses I ever attended were also charismatic masses. So much heartfelt praise, the music was awesome and the words of the homilies always hit home.
Another beautiful Mass for me is the Maronite Mass said or sung in Aramaic.
 
Tonight’s Mass might not have been the greatest but it was REALLY good. I started by going to Confession, and even though time was up, Father didn’t stop hearing confessions until the line ended.

Out homily was good, and reminded me that with Jesus I’m not alone.

It was one of the few times I sat in the very front row and felt a part of what was going on.
 
Mass at Notre Dame Basilica in Old Montreal back in the late 70s. Hearing Gregorian chant for the first time since the change to the vernacular some 12 years earlier.

Second best, Mass at Notre Dame in Paris in 2013. Mass in French, Ordinary sung in Latin/Greek with some of the settings I remembered from my early childhood. Having an order of service with the Latin words allowing me to sing the Gloria in Latin for the first time in my life because back in my childhood days only the choir sang/responded.

Third best, Mass at San Marco in Venice, 2013. Same as with Notre Dame in Paris except no order of service so no possibility of singing as not familiar with the Latin words.
 
I am so happy you had a moving experience with madss. I know your journey has been a struggle with the recent church scandal news and what not.
 
Christmas midnight mass with my wife and son about 10 years ago. The sanctuary was beautiful. The choir was fantastic. The vestments, the deacons ringing the bells. It was a wonderful prayerful meditative time. Peace be with all
 
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Christmas midnight mass with my wife and son about 10 years ago. The sanctuary was beautiful. The choir was fantastic. The vestments, the deacons ringing the bells. It was a wonderful prayerful meditative time. Peace be with all
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Your post reminded me of another Mass, also a Midnight Mass with a brand new Pastor in my childhood parish when I was about 17. The church was lit with hundreds of 7-day candles placed on windowsills and almost every flat surface that could hold them.

The priest, himself, intoned the “Minuit, chrétiens” (O Holy Night) and sang the first verse with the choir coming in on the refrain. I don’t think I was the only one to burst into tears at that point. I doubt we’d heard something so beautiful in that church before. It may not have been liturgically correct but it was memorable and still gives me goose bumps thinking of it 48 years later.
 
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