[epiccoleman]

Growing up, the Catholic church which my family attended, and to which our grade school was attached, held the following masses:

* Wednesday evening mass

* Thursday morning mass (this was attended by the school kids, as well as a collection of retirees)

* Saturday evening mass

* Sunday 7am mass

* Sunday 10am mass

There was also a weekly or maybe biweekly Confession.

That was serving quite a small congregation too, so I wouldn't be surprised to learn that bigger parishes have more frequent masses (although in my experience larger parishes often have more than one priest).

Also, the job of a Catholic priest is definitely not limited to performing Mass. They're essentially on call for Last Rites 24/7, but apart from that there's also just various parish events they'll be involved with.

So anyway, I don't want that job, I want the one where you give out vaguely mystical advice and listen to problems once a week, and then during the rest of the week you're like a cool side character at the local pub.