By Pam Gonzales I don’t know about you but I hear this a lot, “Mass is boring, I don’t get anything out of it so why bother going to it?” “Weekly mass is good enough, why should I go to daily mass?” While I know it’s hard for us to go to daily mass, due to school and other extracurricular activities and harder now that we’re strictly doing any sort of gatherings online, there are lots of alternative ways to still attend mass.
We are very blessed to have access to daily mass and it’s somewhat easier now that it’s all digital since most of us have an electronic device that we could use. Attending daily mass is a way to develop the foundation of the relationship we have created with God through prayer or attending Sunday mass, we get to know His word and it helps us feel more connected to him and sometimes more connected to each other. Receiving Christ in the Blessed Eucharist gives us the strength to fight things like envy and pride. It can be a struggle to weaken these impulses, especially if they start to impact our priorities and relationships and we can’t fight everything alone. It takes insurmountable strength from Him through the Eucharist. Also let’s be real, who wouldn’t want to praise God first thing in the morning? It’s such a privilege and gift to be able to make God the first and most important thing by worshipping Him. Plus God asks for the first fruit of our harvest and by going to mass first thing in the morning we are offering the first part of our day to our Lord. I often find that the days when I forget to pray in the morning or put it off until later in the day, I’m more easily distracted and it’s harder to focus on the task at hand and I struggle with feeling connected to Him and my day just seems strange. I don’t know about you but sometimes I need a set time to just be in God’s presence and if I set the time myself, I always push it back and say “I’ll do it in a bit” but I end up forgetting about it because of my busy schedules and other responsibilities. I’ve always tried to fit in a time for Him into my schedule instead of building my schedule around Him which is so much easier and i find it to be more effective and since we can’t physically attend mass here are some other ways to get your early morning dose of Jesus;
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