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22. The whole "Catholics don't do Mass on Good Friday" should be treated as disingenuous pedantry

Fri Apr 3, 2026, 09:42 PM

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if (IF!) it comes from someone trying to justify this move. The speaker's purpose matters when deciding how to respond to such a statement -- it could also be said by somebody being pedantic for the purpose of clarity in discussion, or by a well meaning person passing on what they have heard/read even though it is misleading and readily misused to ill purpose.

Unless you are well versed or deeply invested in Christian theology, the matter is one of those distinctions without a difference. Your little old lady neighbor who goes to 8AM Mass seven days a week is still going to her church on Good Friday morning. And if you went with her on that Good Friday morning, and you were not a practicing Catholic, you'd probably not spot that it wasn't technically a Mass.

It's like someone saying that I didn't cook dinner tonight because I prepared a Cobb salad.

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