Will six hours with the sisters fulfill my Sun. obligation?

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I’m going to a retreat with sisters at a local convent. It’s six hours on Sunday (this Sun.), but if I go, I can’t also go to Mass. The sisters don’t do a Mass, since the retreat is open to anybody, and any number of people there won’ t be Catholic.

Our pastoral associate thinks that the retreat will fulfill the Sun. obligation. I’d like to think so, too. But if I knew definitively that it wouldn’t, I’d go to Mass on the Sat. vigil.

Anybody have any thoughts?
 
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I don’t know whether the retreat will fulfill the Sunday obligation but we are permitted to miss Mass on Sunday for a serious or important reason.
Is your pastoral associate a priest? If so I would say you can trust his judgement.
 
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Would you be able to make a vigil mass the saturday night before?
 
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Our pastoral associate thinks that the retreat will fulfill the Sun. obligation.
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Wow. Your pastoral associate is pretty ignorant for someone in that position.

No, it does not fulfill your obligation. Your obligation is to attend mass.

You need to attend Saturday or obtain a dispensation from your pastor.
 
No Mass, no obligation fulfilled no matter how much time you spend there. Besides a vigil Mass, some parishes have ‘last chance’ Mass on Sunday evening. Or you could ask your priest for a dispensation.
 
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Our pastoral associate thinks that the retreat will fulfill the Sun. obligation. I’d like to think so, too. But if I knew definitively that it wouldn’t, I’d go to Mass on the Sat. vigil.

Anybody have any thoughts?
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I don’t see how not attending Mass could fulfill your Sunday obligation. I’d go to Mass Saturday evening.
 
Thanks for the opinions, folks. Sort of what I expected you all to say. i have decided to go to the Sat. vigil Mass.
 
The sisters won’t have Mass on a Sunday? They, too, have an obligation. 🤔 Oh well, just seems odd.

Go Saturday.
 
They might have either a Saturday evening Mass, or very early in the morning like 6 am, before the retreatants arrive. If their chaplain must be elsewhere after Mass, it might not even be possible to have a Mass for the retreatants.
 
Maybe because by the time she’d get there, their Mass would have passed?
 
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