All right, in my story, the main character is a lapsed Catholic trying to get back into it in his new hometown. It's in a West Virginia, USA town, relatively small population, and as I don't have much of a Catholic background, I was hoping for some details: What are the typical hours for a Catholic Church, like, access-wise? Are there typical hours
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I'm a Catholic convert and I've traveled a fair bit within North America and Asia, and at individual parishes I've seen everything from confession 15 minutes before every Mass (Toronto, ON) to half hour daily confession plus longer blocks of confession time on Saturday (Pittsburgh, PA) to confession three times a week in hour blocks (Taipei, Taiwan) to a truly pathetic IMHO single hour on Saturday for two parishes ( ( ... )
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Early Morning Mass: I gotta go to work!
Noon Mass: I gotta go back to work!
Evening Mass: I gotta go home!
Although if you go to a parish that takes its time on Mass, you could practically be eating Doritos on your way up the steps to the front door and still take Communion, with the one hour fast.
My spiritual director recommended that I spend 15 minutes in prayer after Mass, and when I leave at the end of the 15 minutes, the place is usually deserted. Perhaps two or three other pious stick-in-the-mud types like myself, lol. Even the priest is gone!
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And even when we go to the almost-entirely-families-with-teenagers-or-teenagers-alone-fulfilling-confirmation-requirements 11:00 Mass, we still never had time for breakfast before Mass.
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lol nice
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This post has actually got me musing on my own Appalachian ancestors, good Ulster Scots Presbyterians all, and wondering how they would feel to see their little Papist descendant advising someone on Romanism in their adopted homeland. For shame. XD
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