Dec 31st vigil mass

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I see that people in the other post are saying that we had to go to mass the actual day Jan. 1st. But, when I called one of the churches yesterday to ask about mass times they said the mass on dec 31st counts as for today (jan. 1st). So I went to a mass yesterday at 5pm. But, I didn’t go today. Do I need to confess this??
 
Cupcake143 said:
I see that people in the other post are saying that we had to go to mass the actual day Jan. 1st. But, when I called one of the churches yesterday to ask about mass times they said the mass on dec 31st counts as for today (jan. 1st). So I went to a mass yesterday at 5pm. But, I didn’t go today. Do I need to confess this??
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Any Catholic rite, on the day itself or the evening before. That’s the law.

Your obligation is fulfilled.
 
porthos11 said:
Any Catholic rite, on the day itself or the evening before. That’s the law.

Your obligation is fulfilled.
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A morning Mass cannot fulfill your obligation. It has to be an evening Mass with the readings for the Holy Day. So not just any Mass on that day will do it. That is the law!! God Bless, Memaw
 
Memaw said:
A morning Mass cannot fulfill your obligation. It has to be an evening Mass -]with the readings for the Holy Day/-]. So not just any Mass on that day will do it. That is the law!! God Bless, Memaw
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Fixed that for you (and more importantly, for the edification of the OP).

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Memaw said:
A morning Mass cannot fulfill your obligation. It has to be an evening Mass with the readings for the Holy Day. So not just any Mass on that day will do it. That is the law!! God Bless, Memaw
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An evening mass, yes.

Readings, no. Could have been a wedding mass on NYE and it fulfills the obligation.

Cupcake, I don’t know what other post you read, but due to your scrupulous tendencies, please get your info from your priest not the Internet.
 
Memaw said:
A **morning **Mass cannot fulfill your obligation. It has to be an evening Mass with the readings for the Holy Day (me: no). So not just any Mass on that day will do it. That is the law!! God Bless, Memaw
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The OP said he went 5 PM of the day before. That’s evening, not morning.

And no, readings are irrelevant. It could have been the weekday/octave Mass on the evening of December 31st and one would still have fulfilled the obligation. It could even have been a Divine Liturgy of a completely different Rite and still fulfill the obligation.
 
Cupcake143 said:
I see that people in the other post are saying that we had to go to mass the actual day Jan. 1st. But, when I called one of the churches yesterday to ask about mass times they said the mass on dec 31st counts as for today (jan. 1st). So I went to a mass yesterday at 5pm. But, I didn’t go today. Do I need to confess this??
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You might be mis-reading the other posts. When one says that we have an obligation to attend Mass on January 1, it is implied that a Mass on the evening-before satisfies the obligation, even if that’s not stated directly.

I haven’t seen any posts where someone is denying that a Mass in the evening of Dec. 31 satisfies the obligation for Jan. 1. The fact that I haven’t seen them does not mean they are not there. Can you link to any such posts?
 
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