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“I can’t make Mass this Sunday because my child has a game.” “I just need one day when I can sleep in.”
“We were on vacation so we didn’t get to Mass.”
Have you heard any of these? Or have you said any of these? How seriously do you take your Sunday obligation?
God takes it very seriously, even making it one of the ten commandments.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states this teaching clearly in No. 2181: “The Sunday Eucharist is the foundation and confirmation of all Christian practice. For this reason the faithful are obliged to participate in the Eucharist on days of obligation, unless excused for a serious reason (for example, illness, the care of infants) or dispensed by their own pastor. Those who deliberately fail in this obligation commit a grave sin.”
And Jesus tells us in today’s Gospel “Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.” (John 15:4-5) You don’t have to make going to Sunday Mass a weekly decision. Make the decision once; to remain on the vine and attend Mass each week. You will bear much fruit.