Dear Father,

I can't seem to convince many of my Catholic family and friends that missing mass on Sunday is a serious sin. I don't judge them, but I worry about them so I tell them they have an obligation by Church law to attend Sunday mass. They don't argue with me about it, they just seem to ignore what I am telling them. It's as if they are saying to me there she goes again preaching about the Church. I believe they truly don't understand the severity of missing mass because if they did I believe they would surely go. I know as Baptised Catholics they are dissenting, but I don't think they really even grasp that they are dissenting and the severity of it. Can one have invincible ignorance in such cases?

Also, in addition to these fallen away Catholics, are those that there Baptised Catholic as infants but their parents failed to educate them in the faith and therefore they never received First Holy Communion and Confirmation, guilty of dissenting or would they have invincible ignorance?

Thanks and God Bless.

As I explained previously, their failure to take worshiping God seriously indicates that they do not have a relationship with God. They worship SOMETHING in place of God. And they know that.

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