Mass
How Can a Mass Be Offered for a Single Person?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
November 23, 2025
If every sacrifice of the Mass is offered for the Church, how can people request individual intentions?
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How Much of the Mass Must I Attend?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
October 26, 2025
To fulfill the Sunday obligation to attend Mass, how long or for what parts must you be present? What is the penitential rite? Must you be present for that? When may you leave and still fulfill the obligation?
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Missing Mass on Sunday
Pat McCloskey, OFM
September 14, 2025
As an 80-year-old Catholic, I was taught that missing Mass through your own fault is a mortal sin that, if unconfessed and unabsolved, could send you to hell forever. I know friends and other Catholics who are good people but ...
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Almost half of U.S. adults have Catholic connection, but Mass makes significant difference in Catholic identity
OSV News
June 17, 2025
Close to half of the nation's adults have a personal or family connection to Catholicism, but Mass attendance makes for significant differences in what Catholics say is essential to their identity.
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Postures of Prayer
Colleen Arnold, MD
April 24, 2024
Prayer can involve sitting, standing, and kneeling during Mass each have their own distinct role in helping us fully experience and appreciate the liturgy.
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The Efficacy of God’s Word
Theresa Doyle-Nelson
December 28, 2023
Simply by going to Mass each Sunday, we hear a huge portion of the Bible over the course of three years.
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California bishops celebrate ‘very powerful’ Mass for detainees in ICE facility
A group of seven California bishops celebrated Mass at the ICE Processing Center outside the town of Adelanto in the Mojave Desert on December 10, providing communion to the roughly 300 detainees present.