Invitation To: Catholic Mass

Curious about other religious practices? You don’t have to go alone! “Invitation To:” is an event series that invites you to attend and participate in diverse religious and spiritual offerings across the Cornell campus. This is a great opportunity to attend other's practices (without going alone!) to gain interfaith understanding and to make connections with people who practice and believe differently than you do.

Those who attend the most “Invitation to:” religious practices this semester will win exclusive merch! Make sure to scan the QR code to check in on CampusGroups at each event.

At its heart, the Eucharist is a sacrament of communion, bringing us closer to God and to our brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ. If we live the fruits of the Eucharist in our daily lives, we will fill our families and our communities with the life-giving qualities that the Liturgy brings: hospitality, concern for the poor and vulnerable, self-offering, and thanksgiving.

On Sunday, we gather as the Body of Christ to celebrate the Lord’s Day, the day of Christ’s Resurrection. The Scriptures tell us that Jesus rose on the fi rst day of the week—the day following the Jewish Sabbath. Shortly after daybreak, the women found the tomb empty and Jesus risen from the dead. Jesus’ death and Resurrection opened for us the doors of salvation. Sharing in Jesus’ death in Baptism, we hope to share in his Resurrection. We become a new creation in Christ. It is that new creation which we celebrate on Sunday. Each Sunday is a “little Easter”—a celebration of the central mysteries of our faith.

Celebrating the Sunday Eucharist—though central and essential—does not complete our observance of Sunday. In addition to attending Mass each Sunday, we should also refrain “from those activities which impede the worship of God and disturb the joy proper to the day of the Lord or the necessary relaxation of mind and body” (Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 453).

Sunday has traditionally been a day of rest. However, the concept of a day of rest may seem odd in a world that runs 24/7, where we are tethered to our jobs by a variety of electronic gadgets, where businesses run as normal no matter what the day of the week, and where silence seems to be an endangered species. By taking a day each week to rest in the Lord, we provide a living example to the culture that all time belongs to God and that people are more important than things.

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Co-hosted with: Catholic Community at Cornell, Cornell United Religious Work

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