When you go to mass. how long does that "warm and fuzzy feeling" last?

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When you go to mass how long does that warm and fuzzy feeling last?
 
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Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to people of good will
 
Warm fuzzy feelings come from a Disney movie or a puppy video.

Mass is not about feelings.
 
I get warm fuzzy loving feelings for Jesus in the Mass. Love is joyous, ecstatic, warm, fuzzy and wonderful.
My love for Jesus, like any love, releases those happy chemicals in my brain. I am afterall a physical creature of the way God created me.

So let me add another feeling - happy, joyous, ecstatic. ( that’s 3 but who’s counting where God is concerned.). And serenity - peace.

We have God’s permission to feel good about him.
It’s part of the fruits of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Fruits of the Holy Spirit
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Let God shine through you to light up the way of others. Give them the warm fuzzy joyous feelings of loving and worshipping God.
 
TheLittleLady said:
Mass is not about feelings.
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Mass is about awe, wonder, joy, worship, glorifying God, intense feelings when we truly understand what the Eucharist is.
Intense sorrow when we first realise the sacrifice Jesus made for us, individual us.

We are warm living breathing humans.

One gift of the Holy Spirit is fear- fear of God. That’s a feeling we should all have.
 
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dann said:
When you go to mass how long does that warm and fuzzy feeling last?
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What warm and fuzzy feeling? [shrug]

I love the mass, and I am grateful for a bit of silence and peace. I get no warm and fuzzy feelings, but I am delighted if others do! 🙂 The gift of consolation can be lovely and strengthen the souls of those to whom it is given.

I pray God give you the graces necessary to bring you to holiness!
 
I can’t say I get the feelings you describe, and never have. But there is a deep sense of calm I derive from being in the presence of a group of people all praying. That feeling can return whenever I think about it, no matter how much time elapses between my attendances at Mass.
 
Some people have consolations (“warm feelings”) but we are not to rely on them, it is not any barometer of one’s relationship with Christ.

One can be a good, faithful, holy person and never have consolations. One can have a phenomenal understanding of the Eucharist and not have warm fuzzy feelings.
 
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Who said we are relying on feelings? Who said it’s a barometer of our relationship with God.
We are relying on God. We can do nothing ourselves.

Feelings are not consolations.
It’s ok to be Joyous about God. Happy to have God in our lives. Afterall it’s one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, who wants to gift us joy.

Ecstasies are described by Saints. What is ecstasy? They don’t describe falling into some deep dark trance. They go into ecstasy. The Interior Castles has some great writings on this.

It’s ok to feel warm and fuzzy in the company of Jesus. Jesus who in His perfect human nature ran the gamat of human emotion - happy, sad, frustrated, angry, lost, deserted, love,
 
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Who said we are relying on feelings? Who said it’s a barometer of our relationship with God.

We are relying on God. We can do nothing ourselves.

Feelings are not consolations.

It’s ok to be Joyous about God. Happy to have God in our lives. Afterall it’s one I

Of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, who wants to gift us joy.

Ecstasies are described by Saints. What is ecstasy? They don’t describe falling into some deep dark trance. They go into ecstasy. The Interior Castles has some great writings on this.

It’s ok to feel warm and fuzzy in the company of Jesus. Jesus who in His perfect human nature ran the gamat of human emotion - happy, sad, frustrated, angry, lost, deserted, love,
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Flawless. Absolutely flawless.
 
It’s the doing of my priest who continually reminds us that one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is joy. God wants us to be happy and have Joy.
And as Mother Theresa says,

We can’t all be called to do great things , but we can all be called to do small things. Even a smile or laughter.
 
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Well at the EF mass I have felt these things, mostly when the Gregorian chant is particularly beautiful and my heart feels unusually connected to God in prayer at the mass, but more often than not I don’t get these feelings or consolations. I don’t recall ever having them at the OF mass during or after.

Often after mass I feel calm but usually that stops once my parents start arguing.
 
This use of the term consolation is utterly foreign to me. God is not a consolation prize.
 
TheLittleLady said:
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Perhaps you meant it is not exclusively about feelings…Opening your heart to the sorrowful piercing of Our Lady’s heart and the indescribable agony Our Lord went through, re-presented on the Altar, and for us to unify our temptations, our sufferings, our trials, in perfect solidarity with Our Lady and Our Lord, can lead people to having the most profound ‘feelings’ one could ever imagine!
 
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This use of the term consolation is utterly foreign to me. God is not a consolation prize.
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I suppose a better term would be spiritual sweetness as St. Teresa of Avila distinguishes it. Unless I’m looking at it wrong.
Spiritual Sweetness begins with us (our prayer and meditation) and leads to God.
Spiritual Consolations begin with God and we experience them in a natural way.
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I think you’re misunderstanding the terms. Just because in a secular sense ‘consolation’ is used in the sense (with ‘prize’) of, “Well you didn’t win the top prize, but here’s something for playing” doesn’t mean that ‘consolation’ used in the secular sense means the same, or that God is some cosmic’ prize’ that can be wagered upon, lost, or ‘won’ by sheer human effort.

Here’s a good sense of the meaning of consolation in the spiritual sense, accompanied by its ‘partner’ of desolation, from the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises:

St. Ignatius of Loyola is well known for his 14 Rules of Discernment, in which he notes two movements: consolation and desolation. Here, he speaks to the realities experienced by anyone striving for holiness in the spiritual life. Each one of us experiences times when prayer is easy and joyful, and it is at these times we recognize the consolation of God’s love. But at other times, we don’t feel like praying. Prayer becomes difficult and dry; we become sad, as if separated from the Lord. This continual fluctuation between consolation and desolation is normal to the spiritual life.

St. Ignatius gives us the direction that when we find ourselves in desolation, we must realize that consolation will again return to us. God allows us to be tested through desolation so as to bring about growth, but he never truly abandons us. He may withdraw the feeling of his presence for a time, but he will always make himself present to us once more. And when that time of consolation comes, we must use that moment to prepare for the times of desolation that will come in the future. We “store up” those joyful times in our life so that we may recall them in the times of sorrow to give us hope and comfort.

In the words of St. Leo the Great, “The principal aim of the Transfiguration was to banish from the disciples’ souls the scandal of the Cross.” The disciples would not forget this “drop of honey” that Jesus gave them in the midst of their grief. In this way, Jesus always provides for those he loves. In the midst of the greatest suffering, he gives us the consolation we need to keep going forward.
 
People who do get the warm fuzzy feelings need to take care in a public setting. Not everyone will have those feelings, lack of feelings does not indicate a lack of “Catholic-ness” or lack of holiness or lack of faith.

Same as with Confession, to promise people they will “feel the weight of the world drop off”. Not everyone feels that way.

The Joy of Christ is something that is there even when we do not feel fuzzy.
 
What are you talking about ~~warm fuzzy feeling?

You must have Catholicism and Orthodoxy confused with other denominations that look to feelings
 
I don’t get a warm and fuzzy feeling. I get the great privilege of witnessing the Sacrifice of the Mass, and I get the wonderful grace of the Holy Eucharist. There’s no need for the warm fuzzies.
 
But of course, love isn’t a feeling. I may want to run up and hug Our Lord. I may want to punch Him in the stomach and give Him a piece of my mind.

“If you love me, keep my commandments.” He doesn’t say anything about warm fuzzies and the feeling of being reunited when you go to mass.

In heaven, please yes.

But at mass, I’ll be honest, there are times when I feel nothing but distraction and even irritation. If others receive consolation, as I said above, I am delighted to know it. But what you describe is not a requirement. Sometimes we just have to keep His commandments, regardless of how we feel about it.
 
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