yes, you can go to mass after indoc. and 'visit for an hour'. when i was a plebe that's what our CTO told us, but peoples' parents stay until like 4pm every sunday. i highly doubt their CTO will call for a muster one hour after mass every sunday. in other words, you will be able to spend at least an hour after church with your p/c.
I usually keep my opinions to myself on here, and just try to deliver the facts-(and a lot of plugs for and pics of our midshipman on the water) but I have to chime in on this. Family visiting a plebe after chapel or anytime was not allowed when I was a midshipman, and I see this privilege abused constantly with parent orchestrating elaborate lunches on the deck of Yocum and by the pool that go late into the afternoon. Part of why you are not allowed to see your mid until Acceptance day is because being away from family is part of what we do as merchant mariners. Just as I teach them knots and seamanship to "Indoctrinate" them to life at sea, so they must also be "Indoctrinated" into the other aspects of the life and the career that that have chosen. Better to see that they can make that now, than worry about homesickness and missing family when they are on the other side of the world on their first ship. My other gripe on this is what does it have to do with church?? A plebe can see his family, but only if he goes to church?? My sailing team members who sail on Sundays are not allowed to see their family after they come back from sailing.......
Just my 2 cents..........