Father Jonathan Morris On 2:30AM Sunday Mass In Pittsburgh,PA

http://annem040359.wordpress.com/ ^ | November 15, 2010 | annem040359

[Biggirl]

First of all, God Bless this priest for going out of his way to bring people closer to God.

Having said that, after just watching this video of Father Jonathan Morris commenting on a Roman Catholic priest in the Pittsburgh, PA, area wanting to witness to Catholics who go out on Saturday night social or date night, as well as those Catholics who have weekend work commitments as well as the young single adult Catholics that is also this special during the middle-of-the-night, 2:30AM Sunday morning mass.

[Biggirl]

Also video of Father Johnathan Morris, whom I enjoy watching him comment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyjDuFURkbw&feature=sub

[mlizzy]

My daughter’s college has Mass at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday night which allows couples, singles, etc., to attend Mass before they go out. 2:30 is the morning, however, might be a great time for Confession!

[Biggirl]

Good, many colleges offer either later Saturday evening masses or Sunday evenng masses as well. Even I had mentioned a few parishes in my home archdiocesse have special Sunday evening masses.

[sayuncledave]

I don’t know if this is still done, but a nearby larger city used to have a parish I favored with a 6:00 Sunday evening Mass. That really helped if I was playing friday night & saturday night. If teardown/loadout takes ‘til 4 or so, it’s hard to go to 8:00 Mass.

[markomalley]

I don’t know if this is still done, but a nearby larger city used to have a parish I favored with a 6:00 Sunday evening Mass.

The latest one around here is 7:30PM.

You can go to http://www.masstimes.org and they have a pretty complete listing of Mass Times (as well as Confession Times).

[cmj328]

Under the rubric, “Una hora ante Auroram vel una hora post Meridiem”, Mass was traditionally allowed to start from hour an before daybreak until one hour past noon. Daybreak (astronomical twilight) precedes sunrise by about 90 minutes in Winter, and 2 hours in Summer, and as mentioned, Mass could start an hour before it.

In Pittsburgh, thus, Mass could be started as early as 2:44 AM in June, but couldn’t really be started before 5:23 AM in early November until the time change.

Now, however, Mass can be said at any time in the 24-hour period. So if there are no restrictions, I find it difficult to see what Fr. Morris’s interest is in condemning Mass at this particular time.