# Did you attend church today? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505 "2010-09-12T14:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/41 "2010-09-12T21:09:37Z")
Hell, no. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/42 "2010-09-12T21:18:26Z")
Can’t think of a bigger or more pointless waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/43 "2010-09-12T21:36:39Z")
Yes. 9:45 and a little under an hour. The general gist was making our faith more a part of daily life and less a thing for Sunday morning alone. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/44 "2010-09-12T22:09:39Z")
Yes. The service I attended ran from approximately 9:45 to 10:45. Because I sing in the choir, I was expected to be at the church from 9:15 to 11:45 ish. The choir sings at two services, and usually flees after we sing. The sermon was on Prayer–the importance of talking to God. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/45 "2010-09-12T22:16:44Z")
Church being the body of Christ, yes continuously, the message is the Love of Christ for us. But more directly, yes, 10 to 12:30, message of the person preaching was the feast of the Tabernacle, and how it is a celebration that Jesus wants us to have. God’s message also came though a message in the music, and fellowship after and before and the trip there and back. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/46 "2010-09-12T22:41:29Z")
It’s Monday here, but I did go to mass yesterday morning. And Vespers yesterday afternoon. Mass started at 10.00am and finished at about 11.10am. A visiting priest from Thailand gave the homily. It was the usual mission one. Vespers started at 4.00pm and went until about 4.45pm, ending with Benediction. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/47 "2010-09-12T22:47:48Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/48 "2010-09-12T22:53:46Z")
Haha, no. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/49 "2010-09-12T23:01:19Z")
9:00 AM - 10:00. We just started the yearly schedule (with three Masses on Sunday morning) rather than the summer schedule (with only two), and also just moved into another building temporarily while our main church building is renovated and expanded. So the sermon was largely on how fortunate we were and how God had blessed us by making this building available to us (it was formerly a Lutheran church, but they moved into a larger building they’d built a couple of years ago, and we bought it from them for use as a community center). ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/50 "2010-09-12T23:05:23Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Are there any religious bodies anywhere that venerate the Creation rather than fairylands of their own imagining? Like a Green church, a church of Earth, or something? I suppose that would be worth joining. Yes, I did. It’s called Hiniker Pond. I got there at 1:00 pm and left at 3:30 pm when I had soaked up enough sun and good feelings to last me for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Waffle\_Decider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@Waffle\_Decider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waffle_Decider)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/51 "2010-09-12T23:31:39Z")
Nope. I used to be a fundie Christian when I was younger and more naive, but not anymore. I used to go to a UU church from time to time a few years ago though. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/52 "2010-09-12T23:40:02Z")
No. The religion I don’t practice is Judaism, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![trupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trupa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/53 "2010-09-12T23:41:04Z")
Yes. Choir practice from 11:30 to 12:20 and Mass start at 12:30 Homily was on the Prodigal Son, but I can’t for the life of me remember what the message was, despite trying to pay attention at the time. We’re not exactly blessed in terms of preaching, in our parish\*. I think I’ll try to remember some of the messages mentioned by some of the other dopers above instead. It’s been a long time since I heard a good homily that I could summarise at Sunday dinner. They all seem so vague, disconnected from everyday life and full of motherhood statements. It’s one of things that’s compelling me to become a deacon later in life, to try to offer some homilies that bear on the everyday life of actual people in the congregation. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/54 "2010-09-12T23:41:31Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > If you did, what time did the service start? How long did it last? What was the message of today’s sermon? > > I’m just curious, is all. Nope. But I took my daughter to religious school at synagogue and stayed for morning services. Sunday (or any weekday) services are very brief- 45 minutes. Shabbat services (Sat. morning) last aboiut 2 hours. I didn’t go yesterday, but did attend Rosh Hashana services(part of them at least) on Thursday. The D’var Torah was about seeing miracles in every day life as a state of mind. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/55 "2010-09-12T23:43:17Z")
Nope. I took a nice Old Testamenty walk in the desert, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/56 "2010-09-13T00:05:51Z")
I couldn’t help but notice: many (if not most) of those who _did not_ attend belittled those (or at least the choice of those) who \*did \*attend, either by direct statement or implication. Of those who _did_ attend, not one spoke disparagingly of the other group. Just an observation. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/57 "2010-09-13T00:14:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I couldn’t help but notice: many (if not most) of those who did not attend belittled those (or at least the choice of those) who did attend, either by direct statement or implication. > > Of those who did attend, not one spoke disparagingly of the other group. > > Just an observation. Fair turnabout, I’d say, for the majority of America, where the church-attenders by and large disparage the non-attenders. Given the history there, and given an environment like here where the non-attenders _can_ turn the tables, I can’t really begrudge them. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/58 "2010-09-13T00:22:34Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I couldn’t help but notice: many (if not most) of those who _did not_ attend belittled those (or at least the choice of those) who \*did \*attend, either by direct statement or implication. > > Of those who _did_ attend, not one spoke disparagingly of the other group. > > Just an observation. > mmm Frankly, I don’t see any belittling of those who attended or of their choice. Most were just strongly stating their preference for what they did. One person quote their children who clearly seemed like they wished they hadn’t gone. ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/59 "2010-09-13T00:52:01Z")
Yes, 8:30 a.m., lasted about 45 minutes. The Gospel was as noted above and the homily was about the lost coin - explaining what the conditions of homes at the time would have been and about the headdress worn by married women of the time, to help the congregation see the importance of that lost drachma. The priest then went on to relate the joy of the woman who found the lost coin to that of God and the angels when a sinner returns to the fold. I like our priest; he talks to us like we’re adults and usually has something interesting to say about the Gospel of the day. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/60 "2010-09-13T02:21:19Z")
Yes, Assembly of God, 10 am to 11:40- short service for us. Elderly guest pastor spoke on living in expectation of the Rapture- used Matthew 25- parable of the ten bridesmaids. Good sermon- I mentally applied it to being ready to meet Christ at any time (probably by dying). Other significant part of the service- “Revelation Song” was started by a soloist, joined in by the choir, and then the congregation- and we were firing on all cylinders- no wild Pentecostal stuff, just a feeling of All-Pervading Harmony & Adoration. Dangerosa, could you explain about yearly Water Communion? I can’t think of what that might be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505.md?page=4)