Real quick, Can someone provide me with prayers and practices to fulfill one’s Sunday obligation? I’m struggling with trying to fulfill mine, I started out saying the Rosary, while wearing a suit and reading the scripture passages for Sunday and also sometimes watching a livestream mass, but I’ve been having a harder and harder time of doing that, I no longer wear my suit, I’ve dropped the habit of reading the scripture passages for that Sunday. (I think I might have to mention this when, please God, I make it to confession.) I’m now at the point where I keep forgetting to make a Spiritual Communion after my Rosary, I need find better ways to fulfill my Sunday obligation can you please provide me with some better prayers and practices? I got to go, I’m packing this morning and am really busy with things. I hope didn’t type all of this too sloppily.
We here in the Archdiocese of Washington DC are dispensed from the obligation to hear Sunday Mass. But we have been able to attend Mass since Pentecost.
I'm struggling a little with this too. RW. Just continuing to say the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Rosary and thanking God and Jesus and helping someone when I can.
I'm also finding it hard. I'm shielding, so don't go out beyond my garden. I am saying the Divine Office, the rosary, currently finishing the Novena to OL Victory (for the USA). It's not so easy as my husband is thundering around the house and so I just pray now whether he's there or not. I think God is calling more of us to be contemplative. If you see her video I posted on Catholic Resources, Frances Hogan says that the lockdown hasn't affected her especially as she is a contemplative laywoman. The Divine Office (Morning, noon and Evening prayer) can be bought as an app for your phone. It's called 'Universalis'. I agree, it is difficult without the Eucharist to sustain us.
Why not just watch it on tv or the internet if you can't attend? You can search on youtube daily catholic mass and find many options.
For a while I thought watching Mass online fulfilled the obligation, but it does not (per Fr. Z). I do still watch online and say a daily Rosary, etc. I wish I could go to Mass, but my husband is chronically ill and we can't risk it. Do not feel guilty or upset, God knows what is in your heart!
I started this thread because I watched the following video the other day, is what Mike and Anthony Stine said wrong, or misinterpreted?:
So true Clare. Bishop Schneider said in an interview recently that for centuries the faithful could only receive Holy Communion 3 or 4 times a year. Recent popes (19th cent) removed the restrictions.
According to Malachi Martin it was tradition to pray a devout Rosary if you couldn't attend Sunday Mass.
