NINE masses? Wow! Anything more than 6 or 7 is amazing.
Typical “full” slate of masses: Sat. Evening, Sunday early morning (7 AMish), Sunday early morning, Sunday late morning, Sunday early afternoon in Spanish, Sunday evening.
Some colleges I’ve known to have multiple Sunday evening masses. (Georgetown has three) But these churches (usually, they are technically oratories) usually don’t have as many earlier in the day.
Does your church have a crypt level, or masses all afternoon? The only churches I’ve ever known with more than six masses had crypt levels so they could have a crypt-level mass starting before the upper level cleared out.
(For lurkers: “Crypt-level” masses are so named from cathedrals and other massive, old churches built over many decades, which would often build a below ground sanctuary to conduct masses in while the upper sanctuary was being constructed. Being underground, they were on the same level as the crypt. In some instances, to deal with large crowds, churches which serve as pilgrimages will continue having crypt-level masses after the main level is completed. I’ve even known some shrinking congregations to move to the crypt-level for smaller, daily masses to scrimp on heating costs!)
Sorry - 8 Mass’s - can’t count here - Sat 5p; Sun 0715a; 0815a; 0930a; 1045a; noon; 0100p; and 5p.
No crypt and all in English w/ a very reverend NO Mass (except the hymns - sigh - which is why I try to attend early Mass where there’s none). We have 4 Mass’s daily with confessions after noon Mass. It’s a moderate sized Church, Romanesque and has maintained the ancient within. Our PP follows the Magisterial obediently w/ no additions or subtractions. Our priests are excellent. I don’t really know if they’re from the right or left. They’re just Catholic.