This is especially stupid and exclusionary considering that Good Friday is the only day on the Catholic calendar when there ISN‘T a mass.

April 03, 2026 - 17:16 UTC

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I was just thinking this!
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As a Lutheran pastor in my first church I always looked forward to the Catholic/Lutheran service we’d have on Good Friday. No communion meant we could all worship together.
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That sounds like a wonderfully unifying experience; do you think Moob could help connect people from different faiths for similar moments of shared worship?
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Thank you! I was wondering if I was the only one who remembered this! (And I was proud because I’ve been a committed lapsed Catholic for over four decades. Those synapses are still firing!)
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I feel like I'm missing something - why is it exclusionary to not have a Catholic mass on a day when Catholics wouldn't be holding mass?
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The problem is it’s strictly a Protestant affair and not an interfaith service. There are many Christian denominations. Just because Catholics don’t hold a full mass doesn’t mean Good Friday is not observed. The wording comes off as though Catholics are specifically unwelcome at the service.
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Catholics do have a Good Friday liturgy, but not a Mass.

More to the point, the DoD’s explicit mention that this was a Protestant service was super exclusionary.
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There is no Mass on Good Friday or Easter Saturday.
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But Mass /happens/ on the calendar day, at the Vigil Mass.
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