Missed Mass - Mortal Sin?

[Decanus]

So, i'm going to miss mass today and i'm really angry at myself. I had every intention to go. Went to communion yesterday evening in preparation and set my alarms. However, I managed to get woken up by my alarms but in my "just woken up daze" I completely forgot I had mass (I've only recently started to make myself go regularly as I got more serious about my faith) and fell straight back to sleep involuntarily. This is a common thing for me where I struggle to get up when i'm exhausted (i've been quite sleep deprived this week more than usual). I ended up waking up 40 mins before mass started, but I walk to mass and the walk takes about 20 mins and I just wouldn't have been ready on time.

I am so angry at myself as this is the first one i've missed since making the decision to go every single week and I feel like a real disappointment to myself and God.

I'm not sure if i've committed a mortal sin. I had every intention to go and my waking up late was out of my control. I thought to myself that maybe I should have gone to bed earlier, but I wasn't tired at the time and if i'm not tired mentally then it takes me ages to sleep.

I'm not looking for somebody to sugar coat it (which i'm sure I won't get on here haha), but I want to know if i've committed a mortal sin so I at least know to arrange another confession with Father. My head is telling me theres nothing more I could have done apart from go to bed earlier, but my head is also telling me that I know full well if I had done i'd have probably just been lying there for hours struggling to sleep anyway. But I feel so rotten inside anyway. I don't know.

 

[Decanus]

Okay I think I found a solution, there is another Church near me that has mass at 5pm, which I didn't know about, so i'm going to try and go to that and beg my dad to give me a lift aha.

 

[Chaplain David]

Excellent.

 

[Davidnic]

Mortal sins have to be done with full intent of the will. Genuinely being confused and forgetting is not a mortal sin.

 

[SaNcTaMaRiA]

Sounds like you found a solution

 

[Decanus]

Sounds like you found a solution

Yeah haha. I opened this thread because I panicked. Lesson learned now

 

[The Grouch]

Exact samething happend to me this morning got woke up by alarm fell back to sleep woke up 15 min b4 mass... wud never had made it on time... be late walk in on the gospel?? or go to another mass... decided to go to a local 10am novus ordo mass instead.

 

[SaNcTaMaRiA]

Things happen sometimes. If it's not intentional or if it's unavoidable you are fine. I missed last week because my son and wife were sick and I was exhausted after a 65 hour work week. No way for me to take a hacking sick child to mass all the while being exhausted myself. There are circumstances that make us excused

 

[Decanus]

I managed to get to the 5PM mass. Managed to get my dad to give me a lift so I was so relieved.

Thank God for those priests who hold more than one mass a day.

 

[The Grouch]

I managed to get to the 5PM mass. Managed to get my dad to give me a lift so I was so relieved.

Thank God for those priests who hold more than one mass a day.

And thank God for our parents too

 

[Stabat Mater dolorosa]

I managed to get to the 5PM mass. Managed to get my dad to give me a lift so I was so relieved.

Thank God for those priests who hold more than one mass a day.

It's important not to fall into legalism too. It happens. There's a very good reason for our Sunday obligation and we are to keep it, but it's not a tool to torment us rather it's the church's way of pushing her son's and daughters to remain faithful and close to the Lord.

It's intention is solemnly pastoral. It's a way to keep our fallible flesh from turning away from the Lord. To help us in our task on earth.

We must consider it a blessing and not a punishment. If you miss out on mass you'll miss it and suffer from it spiritually and if this continues you'll grow away from the Lord.
Keep going to mass is essential in order for us to keep oil on our a lamps.