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To: Disturbin

I hear you. I missed Palm Sunday Mass (wife in the ER all night) and really feel my week is off-kilter.

I missed the most important meal of my week and have a very empty feeling.


8 posted on 03/19/2008 10:57:37 AM PDT by CTK YKC
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To: CTK YKC

I have never heard of Divine Mercy Sunday. But then I have not been a Catholic very long. We always called the Sunday after Easter “Low Sunday.” I forget why. In the Episcopal church it included the Blessing of the Tartans, which was exciting if quite noisy.

“The Catholic Church teaches that it is a mortal sin to miss Mass on Sundays without a good reason.”

What would constitute a “good reason”? Other than being in the hospital, for example, or in a very small town in Rural Alabama where Baptist and Methodist were your only choices?


9 posted on 03/19/2008 11:10:00 AM PDT by Appleby
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