As a busy professional myself, it's not that hard to attend an HDO Mass, particularly given that parishes schedule extra ones in the evenings the night before and the day of. Plus, the number of HDOs is very small. I bet that professor or doctor would make time to celebrate his wife's birthday or his kid's big hockey game, so he should b…
As a busy professional myself, it's not that hard to attend an HDO Mass, particularly given that parishes schedule extra ones in the evenings the night before and the day of. Plus, the number of HDOs is very small. I bet that professor or doctor would make time to celebrate his wife's birthday or his kid's big hockey game, so he should be able to spare an hour for a Mass, as we're supposed to be putting God first in our lives. If it was truly not possible to attend (for example due to the doctor needing to rush to an emergency call at Mass time) then it's not a sin to miss Mass. The fact that a Mass obligation on one day to honor Our Blessed Mother and the patroness of the USA makes your "blood boil" is just sad in my opinion.
I never said that it did. I said the short notice and the disdain for the varying levels of struggle that working people can have made my blood boil. I'm all for celebrating HDO's on transferred days as long as the schedule is known sufficiently in advance and as long as the obligation is clear. But if we're talking about mortal sin related to canonical matters, those doing the binding and loosing have an obligation not to bind too tightly. As far as I can see, they are not taking that obligation seriously, though it's dangerous for me to make that conclusion without seeing the full text.
My response has nothing whatsoever to do with disrespect for Our Lady. God forbid that I should hold her privileges in disdain.
As a busy professional myself, it's not that hard to attend an HDO Mass, particularly given that parishes schedule extra ones in the evenings the night before and the day of. Plus, the number of HDOs is very small. I bet that professor or doctor would make time to celebrate his wife's birthday or his kid's big hockey game, so he should be able to spare an hour for a Mass, as we're supposed to be putting God first in our lives. If it was truly not possible to attend (for example due to the doctor needing to rush to an emergency call at Mass time) then it's not a sin to miss Mass. The fact that a Mass obligation on one day to honor Our Blessed Mother and the patroness of the USA makes your "blood boil" is just sad in my opinion.
I never said that it did. I said the short notice and the disdain for the varying levels of struggle that working people can have made my blood boil. I'm all for celebrating HDO's on transferred days as long as the schedule is known sufficiently in advance and as long as the obligation is clear. But if we're talking about mortal sin related to canonical matters, those doing the binding and loosing have an obligation not to bind too tightly. As far as I can see, they are not taking that obligation seriously, though it's dangerous for me to make that conclusion without seeing the full text.
My response has nothing whatsoever to do with disrespect for Our Lady. God forbid that I should hold her privileges in disdain.