When do you usually attend mass?

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Just curious to see when you usually go to mass. Do you usually go saturday afternoon/evening, early sunday(before 10am), late sunday( 10am or later), or different each week?
I go a different time each week.
 
I’m a morning person, and would choose the earliest Sunday Mass in my area, but my elderly mother likes the Saturday Vigil Mass, and I take her, so that’s the one we attend.
 
I’ve done all options at different times in my life. Growing up, we always went to the post 10am Sunday Mass. In college, I started going to the Saturday Vigil. After college, I would go to whichever Mass worked most favorably with the weekend plans.

Now that I’m married with kids, we go to the early Sunday morning Mass because we’re already up by then anyway and the kids are usually more docile in the early hours. 😛

I’m a creature of habit, though, so I really disliked the phase of going to Mass at different times and at different parishes every single weekend. Having a regular time means that is one less decision I have to make each week. :o
 
I normally go to 8:30 Mass, when i’ve gone to 10:30, it feels like half the day is shot by the time Mass ends.
 
Most frequently the Saturday afternoon Mass, followed by the late morning Sunday Mass, but I also am at one of the other two earlier Sunday Masses from time to time. My wife and I participate in various ministries, so that will often determine which Mass we will attend.
 
For me, it (was) is different each week. Some weekends I’d go to Saturday night vigil Mass, others I’d go to the 8am Sunday Mass, and I’d try to attend both Saturday and Sunday Masses since I knew it would be a long time until I could go to Mass again. Only 18 more months to go!
 
I’ve been attending our local TLM (in communion with Rome, of course) and High Mass is offered at 11:00, so to 11;00 I go.

I prefer an earlier time though.
 
I can only go at 9:30AM. If I try even an hour later, traffic gets* insane* going southbound.
 
10 AM Mass is late? I thought getting up early enough to do anything at 10 AM on a weekend was considered heroically virtuous. 😃
 
I have young children, including a preschooler and an infant. Their schedules better allow me to go to Mass in the evening, so I aim to go on Saturday evening. That way if I miss, due to taking care of my family, I have 24 more hours to find a suitable Mass to attend. My friends even know that I will likely plan my attendance to their social events around being able to attend Mass on Saturday evening! 😃
 
I work for our parish, on Sunday morning.

That limits my options. Saturday evening is best for me. That way if I miss have have a couple more chances with Sunday evening and Sunday night Mass.
 
Since my wife is not Catholic, I attend Mass at different times each week (and sometimes, when needed at different Parishes).

In my area, we have 5PM Vigil Masses on Saturdays and Sunday night Masses (though not at my Parish) at 5PM, 6PM, 7PM and 9PM.

So I really don’t have an excuse to miss Mass.
 
I attend at different times at different parishes since I dont belong anywhere in particular. My favorite is the 5pm on Sunday at the Cathedral because of the left over incense from the TLM Mass. Maybe I should just go to the TLM.
 
We have two Masses on a Sunday, at 9 and 11am. I go to the first as the second is a bit packed-out with younger families. It’s mostly us retired folk at the 9am.
 
During the winter I go to the later Sunday 11:00am Mass. When the light is here longer (I don’t like night driving) I usually attend the Saturday Vigil Mass.
 
I go to whatever mass fits my schedule, or when I feel like going. In the summer months, I tend to go early, because it is light out earlier, and I tend to wake up sooner. In the winter months, like now, I tend to go later. I go on Saturday evenly throughout the year, mostly when I am busy on Sunday. I like the early masses, because I can get a parking spot up close not too long before the mass starts.
 
Saturday evening (6:00pm or 6:30pm, depending upon where I go) and late Sunday morning (10:30am, a Mass I always serve [unless I’m on vacation or the Saturday evening sacristan needs to trade Masses with me]).
 
The conventual Mass of the abbey I’m associated with is at 11 am so that’s when I go to Mass (except of course Midnight Mass or the Easter Vigil, both of which the abbey celebrates).

I haven’t sung in the schola for quite a while as I can’t make rehearsals due to work issues these days, but when I did, we sang at a Saturday evening Mass so on those weekends (1x per month), that would be the Mass I’d attend and on Sunday morning I’d go with my wife to her Anglican parish.
 
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