Mass

MickySticks

When was the last time you attended mass? Not a wedding, a funeral or a christening just ordinary mass.

I can't remember, must be nearly 5 years ago.

token101

MickySticks wrote: »

When was the last time you attended mass? Not a wedding, a funeral or a christening just ordinary mass.

I can't remember, must be nearly 5 years ago.

Christmas 2004. Friend cracked open a can 'discreetly' and the noise echoed through the whole church.

Chuck Stone

Brother's wedding in Jan.
Brother-in-law's father's funeral before Christmas.

It feels all a bit surreal now and it used to feel so normal, if spirit crushingly boring, as a kid.

Ellis Dee

Some time in the early 1960s. I wonder has the story changed or is it still the same old mumbo-jumbo today?:):):)

mikemac1

Midnight mass every Christmas

Which takes place at seven pm

Temptamperu

Me Grannys funeral two year ago.

krudler

non funeral/wedding was about 2003, was thanks to an ex dragging me with her family, shudder.

smash

14 years ago and never again.

im invisible

Oh yeah! Another Mass debater....

Where To

I'm en masse right now.

kfallon

Ellis Dee wrote: »

Some time in the early 1960s. I wonder has the story changed or is it still the same old mumbo-jumbo today?:):):)

It's been updated to become more modern, Jesus got x-box, dvd player and an iphone from the 3 wise men while Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem with the aid of an African taxi driver! Mary looked radiant in her Penneys tracksuit while Joseph wore a shellsuit! When Mary gave birth it wasn't stars that shone in the sky, rather she sent a text message to all her friends saying, "I just gave birth to sun o God lol x" She also updated her facebook status to "Full time mother"

Mary is no longer referred to as "The Virgin Mary" but as "Frigid Mary" and Jesus wasn't born in a manger but in a very nice hostel which did full Irish breakfast for Mary & Joseph the following morning for €7.99

xzanti

Me and the Church are what you would call 'fair weather friends'

If it's not going to be followed by a meal or a session... I'm out.

Although I do pray and I do believe in God... I just don't do mass.

Freddie59

Last Saturday night.:)

MickySticks

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Brother's wedding in Jan.
Brother-in-law's father's funeral before Christmas.

It feels all a bit surreal now and it used to feel so normal, if spirit crushingly boring, as a kid.

I'm sorry did I not make the "not a funeral, wedding or christening" part clear enough?

Freddie59

xzanti wrote: »

Me and the Church are what you would call 'fair weather friends'

If it's not going to be followed by a meal or a session... I'm out.

Although I do pray and I do believe in God... I just don't do mass.

Fair dues for acknowledging Him.

MickySticks

Freddie59 wrote: »

Last Saturday night.:)

Bible basher :pac:

Freddie59

MickySticks wrote: »

Bible basher :pac:

Not really. No-one's business except my own really.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Christmas of 07, when the the girlfriend made me go in order to set an example for the kids. I tried telling her NOT going would be a better example, but it didn't work.

Strangely, when she was telling the seven year old what was happening (when the bell rings, fpr example, it means God is apparently present) I learned more in that 40 minutes than I did in the fourteen years I regularly went.

MickySticks

Temptamperu wrote: »

Me Grannys funeral two year ago.

Did you read the OP?

mikemac1

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

she was telling the seven year old what was happening (when the bell rings, fpr example, it means God is apparently present) I learned more in that 40 minutes than I did in the fourteen years I regularly went.

Were you never an alter boy?

Zebra3

Some time during the 90s.

Why would anyone go every week when 99% of it is just the same crap over and over again?

Nothingbetter2d

aside from the obligatory family related events i dont believe in attending the teachings of a church that openly shelters pedophiles and hypocrites.

Religion is only for those too weak minded to believe in their own faith and must follow the rantings of others like sheep.

Pace2008

In terms of bog-standard Sunday service, I'd say it was about 4 years ago or thereabouts. I used to go pretty much every Sunday to appease the Catholic mother. I hadn't quite stopped believing in some sort of God - was in a state of flux I guess - though I thought the CC's brand of religion was load of ****e by that stage.

I was on autopilot, parroting off the the usual refrains when I briefly came out of my stupor as I was muttering "We are not worthy" and it kind of hit me like "What? Not worthy of what? What is the absolute pile of self-loathing ****?"

Disappointed Mammy or no, I haven't set foot in a church again outside of family events and Christmas.

GLaDOS

Christmas 07, friend needed someone to go with so I went, despite my atheism. Before that? Can't remember, around confirmation time probably.

meoklmrk91

I would say maybe around 6-7 years ago, my father got me a really good Christmas present (guitar hero) and he asked me to go with him to Christmas morning mass, I couldn't exactly say no after him forking out all that money so I went. He knows I am an atheist, but thinks it just a phase and tries to bring me back to the path of righteousness.

Duggy747

Around 9 or 10 years ago because I used to go to meet up with a girl I was going out with and we'd scamper off to do naughty, un-Catholic things :pac:

Even then, I'd just stand at the doors where everyone just chatted to each other like you were out in the smoking area of a pub.

newmug

I dont go as often as I should. But the last time was Monday 3 weeks ago.

Funny how all the people who havent gone in years are the ones saying "I went once and learned more in that half hour than I did in 10 years as a kid":rolleyes:

Cheese Princess

I always go on Christmas Day but besides that it's been at least 15 years. But weirdly on Christmas Day just past I noticed that they've changed the words of some of the prayers. You know how you surprise yourself by still knowing all the words usually, but this time I didn't.

KeithAFC

Remember walking into a church during my one and only visit to Dublin and it was really weird with the mass. Didn't become a Catholic but the building had some nice architecture.

Birroc

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

Religion is only for those too weak minded to believe in their own faith and must follow the rantings of others like sheep.

what does this mean?

kfallon

KeithAFC wrote: »

Remember walking into a church during my one and only visit to Dublin and it was really weird with the mass. Didn't become a Catholic but the building had some nice architecture.

Surprised you didn't spontaneously combust :pac:

AgileMyth

Christmas eve 2010. Last year was the first Christmas ever I didn't go to mass.

KeithAFC

kfallon wrote: »

Surprised you didn't spontaneously combust :pac:

Just that odd feeling of being in a place we shouldn't be in. My dad is big into architecture and decided to go in and liked it. Some nice buildings in Dublin. The whole trip was weird in general. What with me and my Rangers top under my jumper. Was afraid to take my jumper off :pac:

kfallon

KeithAFC wrote: »

Just that odd feeling of being in a place we shouldn't be in. My dad is big into architecture and decided to go in and liked it. Some nice buildings in Dublin. The whole trip was weird in general. What with me and my Rangers top under my jumper. Was afraid to take my jumper off :pac:

Yeah last thing you'd want would be for everyone to piss themselves laughing at you

Minstrel27

1995

MickySticks

KeithAFC wrote: »

Remember walking into a church during my one and only visit to Dublin and it was really weird with the mass. Didn't become a Catholic but the building had some nice architecture.

Have you been to see Ian Paisley in hospital yet? How is he?

KeithAFC

kfallon wrote: »

Yeah last thing you'd want would be for everyone to piss themselves laughing at you

:pac:

Hard times man..

RachaelVO

Was nearly 11 years ago (excluding weddings etc;)

It was the sunday after 9/11, I just sorta felt the need to go it had been such a sh1tty week.

I remember a woman in there with her child, and the child started crying, and she was going to leave the church, the priest stopped her and said (I remember as clear as day) "let the child cry, the innocence of a childs cry is a beautiful thing to hear after the evil and hatred we seen this week, let him cry, let him run around the church, let him be the proof that there's good in the world"

I don't mind admitting I welled up, it was the nicest thing I ever heard in mass!

c_man

Outside of funerals etc., I suppose it would be over ten years. Whenever it was that I stopped believing.


I'm not sure why you wouldn't go if you subscribed to the Catholic teaching of Jesus/God. Seems quite odd.

Nothingbetter2d

Birroc wrote: »

what does this mean?

if you have true faith in god or whatever you dont need a church to put restriction or conditions on your faith like hindu, jewish, islam or christianity does

Freddie59

Birroc wrote: »

what does this mean?

Indeed.:rolleyes:

Toby Take a Bow

Must be sixteen years or so. It is interesting when you're at the funeral/christening/anniversary mass and you really start paying attention, in the way you didn't when you were a teenager. Last one I attended was an anniversary mass that doubled as a preparatory mass for those doing their communion. There was a very strange choice of readings for a bunch of kids around the 7 year mark.

Freddie59 wrote: »

Not really. No-one's business except my own really.

Except when you offer the information on a publicly viewable website, I suppose.

Freddie59

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

if you have true faith in god or whatever you dont need a church to put restriction or conditions on your faith like hindu, jewish, islam or christianity does

Nobody's questioning that. I often say that there are many who do not attend Mass who are probably better Christians (myself included) than those who do.

However, that doesn't not grant anyone the right to post such drivel about the ones who do. It is a personal choice.

Toby Take a Bow

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

if you have true faith in god or whatever you dont need a church to put restriction or conditions on your faith like hindu, jewish, islam or christianity does

Unless your true faith revolves around a Christian/Jewish/Islamic/Hundu interpretation of how god has revealed him/herself, surely?

Freddie59

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Must be sixteen years or so. It is interesting when you're at the funeral/christening/anniversary mass and you really start paying attention, in the way you didn't when you were a teenager. Last one I attended was an anniversary mass that doubled as a preparatory mass for those doing their communion. There was a very strange choice of readings for a bunch of kids around the 7 year mark.



Except when you offer the information on a publicly viewable website, I suppose.

Agreed. But proffered because it was asked.;)

Raditub

Ordinary mass?! Well i do go every christmas..but the last ordinary mass must have been during the time of my confirmation....ages ago!!! :P

Rothko

Does a school mass count?

If so, then it was about 5 years ago

probably when i went to a wedding last

not a christian so i wouldnt be attending otherwise

who the fug

during the eighties

who the fug

bluewolf wrote: »

not a christian so i wouldnt be attending otherwise

From what I remember plenty of non christians go every week

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mikemac1 wrote: »

Were you never an alter boy?

Nope.