No, it’s just a “refresher” during the week. Most of the Catholic Church’s in our area do CCD on Wednesday nights. Most of the schools in this area do not schedule any activities on Wed evening so that all of the different churchs can do their religious ed, prayer services, etc. on that night.
Most Protestant churches I’m aware of have services on Sunday. Sometimes, they have extra services on Sunday evenings (in addition to Sunday mornings) and/or Wednesdays.
Yep. The Christian Reformed churches that I’m familiar with have two services on Sunday (morning and evening), with another service on Wednesday night.
Kind of.
The Baptist churches around where I live do the same thing. Usually most Baptists will go to both the Sunday morning and Sunday evening services, then they will go to the Wednesday evening service too.
I don’t know any Protestants who deliberately skip Sunday services and only attend Wednesday or Thursday services. Most of the Protestants I know go both days. They also go to Sunday school in addition to the Sunday service. Almost all Protestant churches have Sunday school for all ages, not just for kids.
I think the point is, that if they don’t go one Sunday, there’s no guilt. They are not obligated to attend every Sunday as a Catholic is obligated to attend Mass.
That is true. However, historically, Protestants have usually taken seriously the need to go to church on Sundays. The Blue Laws that used to exist were a Protestant invention.
Oh yes certainly, I’m not contesting that at all. I live in the bible belt and I know how seriously they take their church services. I’m only making the point that if, for some reason, they don’t go, it’s not the end of the world.
we grew up in a coastal town (Gulf Coast), full of Polish fishermen, very Catholic. When my sister left home for her first job, she settled in up “north” in the bible belt. One Sunday afternoon she ran a few errands, and the blue laws in her town would not allow her to purchase light bulbs or pantyhose. 
She was allowed to purchase everything else (wish I could remember what that was, this was 20+ years ago!), but not light bulbs:tsktsk: or pantyhose on Sunday!!
That is really weird. Back here, when I was a little kid, I remember that the grocery stores were never open on Sundays, nor were the department stores. There were very few bars with Sunday licenses. About the only place open on Sunday was Lawson’s, where we would go if we ran out of milk. The stores started opening on Sunday back in the 1970’s. It was a big deal back then. Now, even liquor stores are open on Sunday, and most bars have Sunday licenses.Speaking of blue laws,
We could figure out the light bulbs: maybe changing a light bulb was considered work and work is discouraged on Sunday. But what about pantyhose? What if she needed them to wear with her “Sunday best”?
Personally, the one hour a week requirement of the Catholic church is very lacking. It wouldn’t hurt every Catholic to darken the church doors a little more often.
I think you’re mistaken. Once weekly mass is an obligation. There’s nothing anywhere that I’m aware of that says mass lasts only one hour. The other obligation is to be Christ for others everywhere one is… for the 168 or so hours per week.