How much trouble am i am in for forgeting what today was up until it was to later to attend mass and get that little oil on my forehead.
Considering that missing a sunday mass equals to a moral sin, how much penence should I be expecting?
2007-02-21 13:47:08 · 8 answers · asked by Stoic 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Considering that I am under the legal age to even drive a car, it was not within my control to attend mass, of which I was denied the privilage of anyways. [Lazy Parents]
All I know is that when I confessed to skip mass a few times my penence was the longest I'd every recieved.
Thus is it was only probable for me to assume that it could be something of heavy weight during confessional.
2007-02-21 14:38:55 · update #1
Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. Attendence at church is optional.
Fasting and prayer is required and more important.
The Catholic Church and many other Christians Churches follow the Biblical practice of Jesus Christ and the Jews in setting aside days where the entire Church fasts and prays as one in a attitude of constant renewal.
By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert and in spiritual preparation for the celebration of His Passion, Death, and Resurrection.
This season of penance is an intense moments of the Church's penitential practice and are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and charitable and missionary works.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-21 16:36:08 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
please don't take this the wrong way but.... you missed a mass you seem to not even understand the reason behind attending. you don't "get in trouble" - it's a mental thing, a faith issue. ash wednesday signifies the beginning of the lenten season. the rememberabce of the 40 days Christ spent in the dessert resisting temptation. the beginning of the Passion -the reason He was here, lived, died and rose again. if your life was too wrapped up to want to attend mass or stop by a church to commemmorate that - then maybe it's better you didn't go. again, i don't mean that rudely but too often people go becasue they feel they have too but don't "want" too -- there is a difference.
if you feel the need/urge/desire to take some time in prayer the readings today were from Jl 2:12-18, 2 Cor 5:20-6:2 and Mt 6:1-6 16-18.
just try to remember that the lenten season is a time to look within your self and see what role God plays in your life and how you want to strengthen and build that relationship and what you can do to make things better.
God bless!
2007-02-21 14:00:07 · answer #2 · answered by Marysia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation.
2007-02-21 13:52:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is not a Holy Day of Obligation...but continue
the season of Lent.
Ash Wednesday liturgies are some of the best attended in the entire year. Ashes are an ancient symbol of repentance (sackcloth and ashes). They also remind us of our mortality ("remember that you are dust") and thus of the day when we will stand before God and be judged. This can be linked easily to the death and resurrection motif of Baptism. To prepare well for the day we die, we must die now to sin and rise to new life in Christ. Being marked with ashes at the beginning of Lent indicates our recognition of the need for deeper conversion of our lives during this season of renewal.
2007-02-25 07:09:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not in trouble. And it would be ash on your forehead as well as oil. In fact, I don't really recall getting oil... are you sure that's part of it? All I remember is the ashen smudge I sported all through the school day (when I was still Catholic, years ago).
2007-02-21 13:50:11 · answer #5 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Honey, I believe that God understands your heart. If you believe that you need to go through your priest. Explain what happened. God forgives sin and I think he does take into account someone who did something out of forgetfulness rather than true defiance.
But realize this, that you also can ask God in your heart for forgiveness. He loves you and is concerned about your heart more than your actions.
2007-02-21 13:53:06 · answer #6 · answered by Searcher 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of obligation. Don't worry about it.
2007-02-21 13:51:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
who gives a crap!
2007-02-21 13:51:14 · answer #8 · answered by johnny.zondo 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋