Because Sunday mass is an obligation: we meet Christ

Why the Sunday mass it is a must. Catholics are instructed to attend mass and enjoy adequate rest on Sundays. This is not optional. However, in our modern society, filled with busy schedules and piles of bills, many Christians view Sunday as just another day. Many Christian communities even avoid the thought of compulsory worship on Sundays and holidays. For example, more than a few churches they gave to their congregations "the week off”For Christmas (even if it falls on a Sunday), offering everyone the opportunity to“ give priority to their family ”. Unfortunately, this has also reached Catholic and Orthodox Christians, and it is something that deserves an answer.

Because Sunday Mass is an obligation: Let's meet Christ

Because Sunday Mass is an obligation: We meet Christ. While the ceremonial and judicial aspects of the Old Covenant are no longer binding on the Christian, the moral laws have not been abrogated. Furthermore, since our Lord Jesus he came "not to abolish" the law, "but to fulfill it" (Matthew 5: 17-18), we see the fulfillment of the command given in the Old Covenant today with the precept to attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass every Sunday and holy day. We have something far greater than what those under the Old Law had. Why should we lose it? The answer can only be ignorance of what is really happening in the Eucharistic celebration and of the continuity it possesses with the Old Covenant.

.Stanley also says that "God seeand… how you treat people. This is what really matters. ”Let's take a look at this from a different angle. If we treat others kindly and the way we would like to be treated, we must also keep in mind that God is one Persona; in truth he is a God in three Persons. How we treat the three Persons of the Holy Trinity? We are spending time with Jesus at Mass in the Holy Eucharist? How can we say that going to Mass on Sunday does not matter knowing that we personally meet our own there Lord Jesus?

We need God's grace

At a 2017 hearing, Papa Francesco he made it clear that this is very out of place in the light of two thousand years of Christian life. Basically it says that you cannot skip mass and then think you are in a perfect state as a Christian. It's almost as if it directly responds to what we've been looking at! We conclude with the wise words of the Vicar of Christ:

"It is the mass that makes Sunday Christian. Christian Sunday revolves around mass. For a Christian, what is a Sunday when there is no encounter with the Lord?

“How to respond to those who say that there is no need to go to Mass, even on Sundays, because the important thing is to live well, to love your neighbor? It is true that the quality of Christian life is measured by the capacity to love… but how to put into practice the Gospel without drawing the energy necessary to do so, one Sunday after another, from the inexhaustible source of the Eucharist? We do not go to Mass to give something to God, but to receive from Him what we really need. The prayer of the Church reminds us of this, addressing God in this way: “Yeswell don't need our praise, yet our thanksgiving is itself your gift, as our praises add nothing to your greatness but benefit us for salvation '.

Why do we go to mass Sunday? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church; this helps to preserve the value, but alone it is not enough. We Christians must attend Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, we can put his commandment into practice, and thus be his credible witnesses “.