Are you disappointed that the Feast of Ascension has been moved to a Sunday?

[Swiss_Guard]

Livnlove55:

As a new Catholic, no, I’m not disappointed. Why should I be?

I learned a long time ago that I don’t have the authority to make these decisions and that it is my duty to obey those who the Church has authorized to decide. Who am** I** to question my bishop???

No, thanks. I prefer to obey him rather than pretend I know better than him.
In His love,
Rhonda

Bishops also have the authority to remove a priest from a parish or transfer him to another parish. The previous Archbishop of Chicago did the same thing Cardinal Law did in transferring abusive priests rather than removing them. I would have removed them rather than transfer them. I would say I know better than the previous Archbishop of Chicago.

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Bishops can make bad decisions. They aren’t infallible in regards to prudential judgment. I believe the bishops made a mistake in moving the feast from Thursday to Sunday, thus removing the obligation to hear Mass on Ascension Thursday.

 

[Walburga]

I didn’t realize so much of the US had moved this holy day. Bummer. And in the northeast here, it is still Ascension thursday.

I was told that in the US there are a set number of Holy Days of Obligation and the local Bishop decides which ones will be during the week and which ones he will move to Sunday.

So our diocese must have moved another Holy Day to Sunday and the rest of you are celebrating it on the right day.

 

[CarolAnnSFO]

Walburga:

I was told that in the US there are a set number of Holy Days of Obligation and the local Bishop decides which ones will be during the week and which ones he will move to Sunday.

In my diocese, all the Holy Days of Obligation are on the original day; none is moved to Sunday (just got back from Ascension Mass an hour and a half ago )

 

[Livnlove55]

Panis Angelicas:

There is no prohibition on questioning those in authority.

Perhaps not but, as I wrote, I prefer not to be the person doing it.

In reading the lives of the saints, I have been struck by how many wrote about the suffering they endured fulfilling their vows of obedience. Often, even when they believed they had received direct revelation from Christ to the contrary, they submitted to the will of their superiors, even though it hurt and frustrated them deeply.

Pride, and a strong tendency to believe I “know it all”, are weaknessness I struggle with constantly and I have found that the more often I back off from that and allow for the teeny-tiny possibility that others might actually know more than me, the better off I am. Especially when the other person is a bishop and I have been a Catholic for less than three months.

So, honestly, I simply choose to believe that my bishop and all the bishops who have chosen to move Holy Days have done so for good reasons. My pastor made some comments on the move at daily Mass on Wednesday and it was clear from his comments that he supported the move. And since I know he is a man of great wisdom, that just confirms to me that this is not an issue to get excited about.

Soooo… I will joyfully celebrate the day on Sunday.
In His love,
Rhonda

 

[Dr.Bombay]

Disappointed? Certainly not. I was at Mass this evening. Jesus was present on the altar, just as He is at every Mass.

Where my fellow Catholics are on Holy Days, whether the bishop moves the obligation or they just don’t care, I really can’t say nor do I care to dwell on it at any length. I know where I’ll be and that’s all I can worry about.

 

[chicago]

Psalm45:9:

From reading my calendar, it states that The Ascension of the Lord observed on the 7th Sunday in Easter is the norm in the Western USA. As well as Alaska and Hawaii. The Eastern part of the USA still retains the traditon of observing the solemnity on the 40th day (the Thursday after the 6th Sunday in Easter.) As said here though, the Bishops have the authority to move the Solemnity to any of those two days. It seems that the central states have moved the solemnity to Sunday. EWTN did not celebrate it this morning, and I heard from others that Chicago is observing it on Sunday.

Your calander is out of date. That is what some Catholic calendars started noting during the period of the original indult (as I explained in a previous post). They just haven’t updated it in articulation (perhaps in part because it is now more complicated) on the calanders.

 

[chicago]

Psalm45:9:

You know what else I can’t understand? Why if a Holy Day falls on a Saturday or a Monday, it is no longer a day of obligation? Heaven forbid that you might have to go to church two days in a row.

Bishop Bruskiewitz has joked that if you can understand the mess, you’re qualified to be a bishop in the U.S.