Author Topic: Daily Mass in Catholic Schools (Read 1837 times)

Peter15and1 · « **on:** September 08, 2016, 08:25:32 AM »

I was reading about the local NO parochial school online, and noticed that they have all of the students attend daily Mass once per week during school hours. Does anyone know how often, if at all, students at parochial schools attended daily Mass during school hours prior to Vatican II?

moneil · « **Reply #1 on:** September 09, 2016, 07:50:51 AM »

Quote from: Peter15and1

I was reading about the local NO parochial school online, and noticed that they have all of the students attend daily Mass once per week during school hours. Does anyone know how often, if at all, students at parochial schools attended daily Mass during school hours prior to Vatican II?

I can offer only one example, so it is not much of a sample size:

I was born in 1951 and attended parochial school from 2nd. - 9th. grade.

We had Mass once per week, just before the lunch hour. I'm thinking that this was "mid-week" - Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. On First Friday's a breakfast (donuts and hot chocolate) would be offered before class for students who had attended and taken Holy Communion at the parish First Friday morning Mass.

Today the same parish has daily Mass normally at 8:00 AM. During the school year the Friday morning Mass is at 8:30 and the school attends, siting by class.

nctradcath · « **Reply #2 on:** September 09, 2016, 08:05:37 AM »

I attended Novus Ordo grade school in the 80's-90's. We had the novus ordo Mess every first friday of the month and on a few holy days. In my Jesuit HS, we could attend the novus ordo mess daily, but mandatory attendance was for a few holy days.

Oatmeal · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2016, 01:46:52 AM »

The SSPX chapel in Kansas City went from having four 8am school Masses during the week to two 11am Masses starting this year. I was pretty shocked by this because the NO schools I'm familiar with have a similar schedule.

JezusDeKoning · « **Reply #4 on:** September 10, 2016, 02:02:20 AM »

When I was in Ireland with my college choir, the local university had a daily Mass.

Here in the States, though, the local SSPX school/chapel only has Mass occasionally because the priest has to travel frequently.

tdrev123 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 10, 2016, 02:23:28 AM »

My NO grade school had M(e)ss every tuesday and friday + holy days, in my high school we had m(e)ss about 5 times a year...with like 6 priests serving the high school lol.

songbird · « **Reply #6 on:** September 10, 2016, 11:04:57 AM »

In Indiana, 1960 -1970 daily mass, every day for those in school. Started 7:30 am followed by brief breakfast in classroom at 8:30 and school started by 9 am.

OHCA · « **Reply #7 on:** September 10, 2016, 04:27:11 PM »

NO elementary in upper southeast late 70's - mid 80's. I remember some years the mess was twice per week. Other years it was more, but I have no clear memory of it ever being daily.

Miseremini · « **Reply #8 on:** September 10, 2016, 05:21:05 PM »

In the 1940's-50's every church in our province in Canada had a school right next to it. Back then it was unheard of to offer the Holy Sacrifice outside a church. Mass was at 8 AM daily and attendance was not mandatory. If we went to Communion we were allowed into our classroom before the morning bell at 8:50 to eat a sandwich and have a bottle of chocolate milk which we'd brought from home before classes started at 9.

A couple of Altar boys and the girls in the school choir were allowed out of classes for every funeral at the church.

The only time the whole school went to the church was every Friday in Lent at 3:20 for the Stations of the Cross and we were dismissed from the Church.

The church was quite well attended daily with school children and on First Friday it was packed as almost everyone made the 9 Fridays.

Lighthouse · « **Reply #9 on:** September 10, 2016, 11:10:49 PM »

In the 1950s in the US Midwest, DAILY weekday Mass was a requirement in Catholic schools. Many of the schools served breakfast right after Mass before the first class. I was given detention for skipping out once. Mea culpa.

poche · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2016, 11:59:47 PM »

I remember hearing stories from the generation before me. Apparently it was not as common for people to receive communion as often as they do today. The Catholic school had designated days when the children would receive communion. If a child who had made his first communion did rot receive Holy Communion then the nuns would punish the child.
I remember hearing my grandmother complain because even though the Mgr. criticized and condemned that practice (punishing children who didn't receive communion on the cays of communion) they still did it.

SanMateo · « **Reply #11 on:** September 12, 2016, 06:18:58 AM »

I attended a NO Catholic high school in the late 90s-early 2000's. Not surprisingly, we only had Mass about once every other month or so.

There is a group of NO religious sisters I met in college known as the Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist. They are definitely as good as you can get while being NO. They begin every single day of school with Mass. I don't know of anyone else that does this. Anyone else know of any schools that have daily Mass that ALL of the students attend?

nctradcath · « **Reply #12 on:** September 12, 2016, 08:12:27 AM »

I have never heard of a single novus ordo school that had current mandatory daily mess attendance. They must be an extreme outlier that I am sure that Frankie the heretic will stop as he is "updating" those few cloisters left in the spirit of Vatican 2.

Peter15and1 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 12, 2016, 02:13:26 PM »

Thanks, everyone for the responses. It is interesting to hear how different things were from place to place.

Peter15and1 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 12, 2016, 02:19:41 PM »

Quote from: nctradcath

I have never heard of a single novus ordo school that had current mandatory daily mess attendance. They must be an extreme outlier

That's what I thought too, but as I began looking into it more deeply, almost all of the NO schools in my area (spread over two diocese) have a "School Mass" once a week during school hours that all students are required to attend.

Quote from: nctradcath

I am sure that Frankie the heretic will stop as he is "updating" those few cloisters left in the spirit of Vatican 2

Time will tell.