“Why do we have to go to Sunday Mass?” That’s a good question and one which Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing is attempting to answer this week with this new series of daily talks on keeping Sunday sacred.
Attending Holy Mass on a Sunday is a solemn and binding obligation upon all Catholics. Indeed, it is a mortal sin to deliberately fail in this matter. This grave obligation may be suspended or dispensed at times due to pandemics or for other significant reasons. Such is the case presently within the Diocese of Lansing until, at least, the First Week of Advent, November 29.
“Still, it is worth our time to reflect on why participation in the Sunday Mass is so important that the Church would make it an obligation at all,” says Bishop Boyea. Hence, today he gives us his third of seven reasons: Celebrating the Resurrection.