Another reason why catholics attend mass may be so that they can express their faith. This can be done in many ways. By expressing their faith they are deepening their relationship with God. They are expressing their views and opinions of religion in everyday life and they can add to their views and opinions by learning more about them at mass.
St. Thomas Aquinas suggested that the most important element of mass is the forgiveness of sin. Many catholics agree with this. Catholics trust in God and they feel god trust them back. so in return, when a person does something wrong and they know they shouldn't have they shouldn't be afraid to ask for God's forgiveness and not wallow in self pity. Some people blame God for the times when something never went as they would have liked and the only person left to blame is God. They may feel he is not there when they ask him to be so therefore he is betraying them. Mass is a time to ask for forgiveness for all of your sins, not matter how foolish or wrong they may be. Some people believe that once your sinse are forgiven you can start afresg. It's like turning over a new leaf where you are free to start over again, putting your wrongs right. I think that this is why catholics attend mass most, to reconcile and start anew. This implies that mass is the remedy to all of our failings no matter what we have done wrong, we can always turn to God as mass is always open to anybody willing to go.
Another reason that catholics attend God's celebration of mass is that God doesn't care how rich and wealthy you arem or how bad and poor you are, he just wants to teach everybody wrong from right and how to make the right descisions in life. The poorest of the poor could attend church and get the same out of it as a well off business man.
Catholics attend mass for all sorts of different festivals and celebrations. The church celebrate the whole of Jesus' life from the day he was born to the day he died, and catholics want to feel involved and celebrate these special events from the life of Jesus. By attending a mass which is celebrating a certain event the congregation learn all about what happened, which allows them to widen their knowledge and understanding of God. Catholics also celebrate other occasions which are after Jesus' time, or maybe even before. The events which are celebrated often have a story to get the message accross and also so that people will be able to remember them. By people celebrating these stories, it shows they will be able to look back at what happened and be influenced by them in a time of need.
People also attend church in order to remember Jesus' sacrifice on the cross in calvery when he died to save each and everyone of us. Jesus' did not die in spite of his killers but asked God to forgive them as he felt they were not aware of what they were doing. This shows that no matter how bad something is you can always forgive.
God cannot make us do right an he cannot stop us from doing wrong, but by attending mass we can learn how he wants us to be, whether we do it or not is our choice.
People look to God for guidance, and also for an insight on his life and ways, to get a better understanding. By attending mass people get a better understanding of not only God, but of themselves.
When sombody is going through a hard time, whether it be an illness of loss of the family mass is always there for them. Some people may think that mass is pointless in a time of need, even though it can't turn the clocks back and change things back to normal again, it can help you realise God is always there for you and that you have to accept what happened and move on, that way you can get on with your life.
Once people have accepted what has happened in their lives they will see the brighter side of things and recieve much more comfort from visiting mass.
I think that the main reason people attend mass is that they see God as the almighty, and know that if they are going to seek inner piece from anywhere it will be by becoming closer to God iat his everyday celebrations of mass.
