Which Mass do you usually attend? POLL

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I’m really all over the place, timewise. I keep a little notebook with all the Mass times for downtown Cincinnati, every day of the week, written in it. Then, there are a few other parishes that are near me or convenient for one reason or another. But, my main parish is downtown and I almost always go there on Sunday.

There is no Saturday vigil Mass, and we have:

9:15 Novus Ordo Latin Mass
11:00 German Mass
12:30 English
7:00pm English

I’ll go to any of them but the German Mass. 9:15 is a little too early for me because I’m soooo exhausted all week long that I’d rather sleep to about 8:30 or 9 on the weekends. 12:30 does cut the day up, though. I really enjoy the 7pm Mass, especialy since I can sometimes get my dad to stay with my son while I go alone. But, I’m paranoid that something will come up to prevent me from going if I put it off 'till Sunday night.
 
I enjoy Saturday mass because it seems to run more smoothly, less screaming children, and our parish is so beautiful when it is night out. The lights glow like candles and it really sets a reverent mood.
 
Since my *esposa *is not a morning person, being a Latina, we usually go to the 6PM Vigil Mass. This one has the choir, and there is usually a very good hymn sung just by the choir during Communion, often in Latin.

A veces, we go to *La Santa Misa en español. *The young children do not behave. The Mass always starts late. It is dufficult to find a place to park, because this Mass is in an old city neighborhood and has no parking lot to speak of. Nevertheless, I like to listen to the Mass in Spanish. The Novus Ordo translation in Spanish is far superior to the English translation (El Señor sea con todo ustedes - *y con tu espiritu). *The Latinos do not have white-bread vanilla Masses. They still have processions and celebrate saints’ days.

Also - and this is important to me - the Latinos are usually the only ones who celebrate Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. My wife and me will be attending the Mass with the Latinos on December 12. At least someone is aware of it.
 
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I’m a Protestant visiting 4:30 Mass Saturday evenings. I signed up for the RCIA classes!

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Nicole
 
Our children are all early risers, much to my wife’s chagrin! 😃

We usually attend 6:45am Sunday morning–there is no music at this mass, which is nice. Everyone is different, but I find the solemnity and calm refreshing; plus it is easier to focus on the actual words of this Most Holy Sacrafice.

But never fear, we always sit in the glassed-in mother’s chapel/cry room, which is just to the right of the sanctuary.
 
I prefer the an early morning Mass, but I’ve falen in love with the Tridentine Mass and it’s at 12:30 so that’s when I go. I guess it’s good that Mass is kind of the central event of the day at that time.
 
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I attend mass at 5 am on Sunday mornings in my parish. I like it because I can sit alone in the pew because it is not packed like the other masses. We used to have mass at 4pm on saturdays and at five, eight, and ten in morning on sundays. Our parish has recently clustered with two other parishes in the diocese, so our mass schedule had to change.

Our schedule is now four on saturdays as before and at five and nine in the morning on sundays.

The vigil and nine am mass always are full, so I feel I do not get as much out of the mass cause I tend to not pay as much attention cause I may talk to the person next to me, so I rather go on a sunday morning at five am. I go a little early to say my prayers and spend quiet time with the Lord before mass.

It is just my preference to go that early. Others may feel differently. The only problem is there is no music at that mass, which I do not get because just because it is early in the morning does not mean that they cannot sing at that mass, I guess some people who sing at our church do not want to get up that early.

Kerri
 
Saturday Evening Mass (technically afternoon since it starts at 4 pm). Confession takes place between 3 pm and 4 pm on Saturday and usually there is a community rosary (1 decade) starting at 3:15 or so. If I time it right, I can go to confession, participate in a parish Rosary and attend Mass in one late afternoon/early evening!
 
I normally go to the 4:00 PM Vigil Mass (even on Holy Days of Obligation that have them). However, daily Mass, I usually attend the 7:00 PM Mass at my parish.

PF
 
The one my family can go to, whichever that is. This is the prime consideration.
 
I usually go to the 5pm Sunday Mass at our chapel. It tends to be the most crowded (I’m on a university campus, so very few early risers). There’s a Mass at 9pm, but by that time, I’m usually too tired to really give God the attention I should during Mass. I would like to go earlier, but I have work that I cannot get out of, even though I have tried. Overall, I’m not too disappointed not to go earlier, because I’m glad to be able to go to Mass so easily every Sunday and many weekdays.
 
Late Sunday morning though I selected “Other” since it is not the time but the type. Our late Sunday morning Mass is a High Mass (TLM) while the earlier Masses are Low Mass.
 
In the winter months, I attend a parish on Sat. night that’s almost in my backyard. That is the only Mass in English. The other’s are in Spanish. I only attend there in the winter because they do not have a summer English Mass. There aren’t enough “Angloes” to have a service. I live in a town where the population doubles in the winter from it’s normal 150,000 people. Then all the “Winter Texans” start leaving in April to go home. So in the summer, I attend Mass at a different parish on Sundays at 10:45am, which is English. The 2 parishes are very different from each other. The one close to me (winter months) is very poor and nothing fancy, but Father Harry is a doll. The summer parish is just the opposite. VERY large and very rich. I enjoy them both in their own way.
 
We are a 9am Mass family here–it’s the second Mass on Sunday itself (6am, 9am, 10:45 in Polish, 12:30pm), so I voted early Sunday.
 
Our Campus Ministry has only one mass at 6:30pm Sunday, thats because if they had an earlier one none of us college students would be up yet.
 
I attend the 10:00 Mass on Sunday morning except for the first Sunday of every month I attend the 12:00 Novus Ordo Latin Mass. We are blessed to have a Tridentine Mass at 8:00 a.m. but I haven’t been to it yet, but soon I hope!
 
I teach CCD at my parish and we meet every other Sunday. After class we take the kids to Mass, so I’m at the 10:00 Mass every other week.

When I’m not teaching CCD, I like to go to the Tridentine Mass, which is mostly offered later. Usually a 12:15 or 12:30 Mass, but every once in a while I will take a 55 mile drive one way to go a 9:00 Mass at the Institute of Christ the King. I only attend Tridentine Masses with an indult. Fortunately, there aren’t too many independent chapels in my area. We have three independent and an SSPX chapel.
 
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