Only if the wedding is after 4PM and celebrated within the normal Saturday Parish Sunday Vigil Mass. This is starting to become more common.I’m going to a wedding next Sunday afternoon and am wondering if that Mass covers the Sunday obligation or not. (It wouldn’t be a big dal, but I ahve to travel for it, so making Mass in the AM will be difficult and am busy the night before.) If I have to, I’ll make time and will try to anyway, but given my distaste for mornings, it would ease my conscience to know for sure.
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It doesn’t say anything about the readings. Any mass qualifies.Can. 1247 On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are obliged to participate in the Mass.
Moreover, they are to abstain from those works and aVairs which hinder the worship to be rendered to God, the joy proper to the Lord’s day, or the suitable relaxation of mind and body.
Can. 1248 §1. A person who assists at a Mass celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the feast day itself or in the evening of the preceding day satisfies the obligation of participating in the Mass.
Not ANY mass. The local bishop decides where the cut-off points are for his diocese is.Any mass qualifies.
Do you have a reference for that? I have never heard of any bishop restricting Masses on Sunday. Now, each Bishop DOES set the time on Saturday that is the earliest time for an anticipated Mass.Not ANY mass. The local bishop decides where the cut-off points are for his diocese is.
Wow! Around here Masses at 5pm are common and there’s one at 7pm. Newman centers often have Masses as late as 9 or 10pm.Every year our parish distributes a questionnaire. There is a space for comments. It never fails that several people suggest having a Sunday afternoon mass and our pastor always responds that our bishop does not permit any Sunday Mass to begin AFTER 12noon.
Sort of, the Mass would have to include the prescribed readings and Gospel for the day, as well as other required parts, such as the Creed.It doesn’t say anything about the readings. Any mass qualifies.
According to my reading of GIRM #330, it would certainly appear that a Nuptial Mass, or a Mass using the Sunday’s readings into which the wedding rite was inserted (certain seasons of the liturgical year, etc.) would certainly fulfill the obligation. I cannot imagine why it would not. It truly seems like hairsplitting to think otherwise. (Of course, if it were just a wedding ceremony, that is another situation entirely.) We never see Sunday weddings here, however.I’m going to a wedding next Sunday afternoon and am wondering if that Mass covers the Sunday obligation or not. (It wouldn’t be a big dal, but I ahve to travel for it, so making Mass in the AM will be difficult and am busy the night before.) If I have to, I’ll make time and will try to anyway, but given my distaste for mornings, it would ease my conscience to know for sure.
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Can you quote something that says that? Canon law was cited above and it doesn’t say anything about the readings. What document modifies canon law in this area?Sort of, the Mass would have to include the prescribed readings and Gospel for the day, as well as other required parts, such as the Creed.
I misread your post. A wedding Rite within a regular Sunday Mass would.Only if the wedding is after 4PM and celebrated within the normal Saturday Parish Sunday Vigil Mass. This is starting to become more common.
It shouldn’t because Canon Law is not the proper place for this. Don’t look in Canon Law, look instead in the Norms for the Lectionary, specifying the proper readings for Sunday Mass.It doesn’t say anything about the readings. Any mass qualifies.
As long as he doesn’t contradict something specific, a bishop can pretty much run his diocese any way that he wishes.Wow! Around here Masses at 5pm are common and there’s one at 7pm. Newman centers often have Masses as late as 9 or 10pm.
I wasn’t aware that a bishop could cut off Mass times so early.