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Who shows up at a morning Mass on Easter Monday?
It is a tiny portion of regular Mass-going Catholics who go to any given daily Mass. This day, in particular, offers more reasons not to attend: Many Catholics have just spent about eight hours in church over the past few days — Tenebrae, Holy Thursday Mass, the veneration of the Cross, the Stations of the Cross, and Easter Vigil Mass.
I was not surprised, then, that Easter Monday Mass at my local parish was pretty empty.
Now I want to ask the reader: What type of people do you imagine go to the more sparsely attended daily Masses?
If you take your understanding of the Catholic Church from the liberal mass media, you might imagine that these die-hards are very severe right-wing traditionalists who are planning Christian nationalist takeovers of the United States or something.
You might even think, especially at a daily Mass where communion is distributed to congregants kneeling at the altar rail, that those in attendance are the severe types who might not mourn the death of Pope........