The uphill climb of daily Mass
It is a challenge to live a life of daily Mass attendance. At a very difficult time in my professional life, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to attend the early Communion service at St. Brigid's Catholic Church. I was facing some real challenges at work and some of the people that I had to work with were not very nice, to say the least. I felt I needed the extra spiritual strength that I knew I would receive from receiving the Eucharist daily. The job went from bad to worse (hostile place), and eventually, I resigned. I would probably have resigned much sooner if I had not had the extra inspiration and graces received from daily reception of Christ in the Eucharist. Fast forward to now, I have felt a real need to start attending daily Mass. Many years ago, there were many local parishes that had super early morning Mass, at 6 a.m. Now, those Masses are harder to find, but there are a few in San Antonio. St. Brigid still has their 6 a.m. Communion service. It is not a full Mass. It is Litu...