Every Sunday I do my best to attend the 7 p.m. Mass in the Chapel and it always makes me upset to see the lack of participation. The same students, professors, and sisters are at Mass every week. We are a Catholic community and a large part of our community has grown up around the church, gone to Catholic grade schools, high schools, etc. If we have this background, then why do we never fill the chapel on a Sunday night?
It is such a convenient time for students, especially residents, to come to Mass. I can understand if commuters do not go because they are most likely at home, but I even go in sweatpants sometimes, as it is better to go looking like a bum, then not go at all.
Are we all just worn out with Mass? Are that many people not Catholic? Are we cramming in our homework, which we put off the entire weekend, during this time? Are we just too lazy to walk up to the second floor of Lewis on a Sunday night? Please enlighten me.
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I'm not religious, so I don't go.
Other than my excuse, I would say that people are just lazy or they really don't care that much about church. I know a few people who try and go every week, but sometimes they just get lazy, or a football game is on, or there's a paper due or something. There's a ton of different reasons. But I'm going to say the main one is laziness.
Definitely laziness, and/or apathy.
I grew up in a Christian household, but Catholic services don't quite resonate with me. I go to famed church St. Sabina occasionally, but I don't regularly attend religious services (much to my mother's chagrin) because I have some personal fundamental issues with many forms of organized religion. But I'm sure there are more than just a few Catholics on campus, and it is a shame that there is low turnout.
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