When do you meet your Sunday obligation?

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My family and I are Sunday mass people. It is more like a tradition for us. Yes, we see friends would go for mass on Saturday evening and on Sunday they are free.

Without going into the legality of it, we are called to keep Sunday holy. It was taught to me as a kid and I knew no other. This fact become more firmly implanted into my mind when our former Bishop chastized those who went for mass Saturday in order to be free on Sunday. According to him, Saturday mass is only for those who cannot make it on Sunday.

Rightly or wrongly, it is difficult to kill old habit.
 
I always go 11:00 on Sundays unless I’m sick, and except for First Saturday’s.
 
If you were here, you would find Priests travel great distances giving Masses every weekend. Which means some churches in the Parishes covered get Vigil Mass and others Sunday’s. Depends on the roster.
 
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Perhaps that priest was giving counsel to a specific person in a specific situation.
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It was in a homily that my parents heard.
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Still doesn’t matter. Honestly.

The teaching of the Church is clear:
The Sunday obligation

2180 The precept of the Church specifies the law of the Lord more precisely: “On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass.” “The precept of participating in the Mass is satisfied by assistance at a Mass which is celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the holy day or on the evening of the preceding day.”
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If every priest gets to just make up new rules regarding Church law, then why have a Catechism or a Code of Canon Law at all? Why not just call ourselves protestants and do whatever we think sounds good to us?
 
Don’t you think the Bishop or the clergy would tell parishioners that fulfilling your Sunday obligation on Saturday after 4 pm can only be done with sufficient reason?—it would in fact, be their duty to do so if that was the case. While it is the individual Catholic’s responsibility to inquire, it is very important for the Church, Archdiocese or Parish to make clear if you have an unusual situation like last December when the 4th Sunday of Advent fell on Christmas Eve, what the obligation of Catholics is in that situation (attend two different Masses—one for Advent, one for Christmas). I can say that I am not aware of any such restrictions on the Liturgical Sunday Mass being celebrated on Saturday in the Archdiocese where I live and no Priest or any other clergy has ever tried to inform me otherwise. I know some Catholics don’t like it, but it is a situation like Communion on the tongue or in the hand—both are allowed and fully licit, but many people, including clergy, have personal opinions about it.
The Archdiocese can decide, for example, if Ascension Thursday is celebrated on Thursday or is transferred to Sunday. For example, where I live, Ascension “Thursday” is a Sunday Mass, as it is in most of the US. In different parts of the world they have different Holy Days of Obligation, depending on the country or the Diocese.
Is it wrong, or illicit in any way, not to go to Mass on August 15, even if it falls on a Monday and the Assumption Mass is celebrated on Sunday instead, and the Bishop has declared that your Obligation is satisfied by attending the Sunday Mass?
Or if All Saints Day falls on a Saturday? The answer is no. If your Diocese transfers the All Saints Day obligation to Sunday, you need not attend two Masses that weekend. You could, but it is no longer an obligation.
 
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I play for Masses. This past weekend I attended and played at 4 of the 5.
 
Your priest’s preference. You don’t speak for or know what other priests prefer. You really need to just stop.
 
Sunday.

I was miffed this Sunday. I wanted to go to Mass at the Cathedral. I left early and they had closed three of the five lanes on I-5 into Seattle, creating a five mile (yes it said five miles on the highway signs) backup…so I missed Mass. Then as I was already in Seattle I routed the GPS to a parish with a mass at 1230 (I was headed to the 1200 Mass at St James’)…I still missed that one even though I was about two miles away. I ended up spending two hours in the huge thrift store downtown because hey, I was already IN Seattle, then turned around and drove the 35 miles back to just go to the five PM Mass at the military chapel.

#CatholicProblems

(I did get a couple of great deals in the thrift store, so the 70 mile round trip wasn’t a total bust. LOL.)
 
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Never said it was.
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No but you are pushing your opinion on us that we really should attend Mass on Sunday rather than Saturday evening to satisfy the obligation. If you prefer to attend on the Sunday that’s fine but don’t tell us we should all do that and before you ask where you said that you stated we shouldn’t make a habit to attend Saturday evening Mass unless there is a grave reason. That is not correct. You are at odds with the Church on this!
 
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