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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

When Attending Mass Virtually Just Doesn’t Cut It

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

"It’s time to stop watching and start worshiping." - Fr. Mike

Today, Fr. Mike continues part two of his series on worshipping God each Sunday at Mass and why our Sunday obligation is more about our relationship with a loving Father than a rule of Church law alone.

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0:00.0

Not too long ago, talking with someone and they said,

0:02.7

I was on vacation in some place and so it was so nice to have the masses online because

0:07.1

we didn't have to go anywhere. We just got to be in our hotel room going to mass online and I just

0:12.2

was like, no.

0:21.0

How many names are there? And this is essential presents. So I made a video before about

0:26.0

the obligation to go to Sunday Mass. Maybe I made a couple of those, but I recently,

0:29.4

I wanted to revisit some of this a little bit because, as I mentioned in a previous video,

0:34.3

I did an interview for a place called the veil removed.com and so it just kind of has a

0:39.3

depiction of what happens at the mass. One of the questions was, what if I don't go to in person

0:44.7

mass but go to online mass or to convenience? And my response was kind of like a knee jerk response.

0:51.5

It was like, oh, that's a mortal sin. And I was like, I should clarify. But it's not, I'm not wrong.

0:57.2

It's not wrong to do that, to avoid mass in person and go to online mass out of convenience.

1:05.0

Is grave matter. That's a grave sin. Now if I, you know the qualifications for a sin to be mortal,

1:10.8

we have a lot of videos on that. Maybe at least a couple. It has to be a grave sin, right?

1:15.4

Have to be grave matter. I have to know it's grave matter and I have to three third

1:19.4

freely choose to do it. So if someone didn't know that, okay, then they had lacked full knowledge.

1:24.8

But now you know that if I have the opportunity to go to mass in person, I can't substitute that

1:31.8

by going to mass online. Now I know a lot of people have said, I've called that you're written to me

1:36.8

and the context said, thank you for having the online mass because in my country or in my area,

1:41.1

it's still locked down. We can't go to mass in person or to be able to say, I'm immunocompromised

1:45.3

and I can't go to mass in person or I take care of my grandmother and she's compromised. So she can

1:49.4

can't go to mass in person or I got sick this weekend. We all got COVID this weekend and so I can't

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