Does wedding mass at Saturday 5:00pm fulfill Sunday obligation?

[Cor_ad_Cor]

No, a “vigil” is a specific liturgical term reserved for select days in the calendar. We commonly misuse it in average layperson speak.

 

[1ke]

It’s my understanding the Saturday mass must be a ‘Vigil Mass’. If not, it does not count as attending on Sunday.

A). There are only a few solemnities that have a vigil mass.

B). The mass on Saturday is not a vigil mass, it is Sunday mass.

C). Church law says any mass on the day of or the evening before, in any Catholic Rite. It says nothing of “vigil mass”. See canon law I already posted.

So, no, nothing at all about being a “vigil mass”.

 

[jimXroberts]

Any Mass that starts after 4:00pm on the day before a Sunday or Holiday of Obligation fulfils the precept. However, you can’t do a buy one get one free. If there are two consecutive days that require you to attend Mass, an evening Mass on the first day can count for either but not both. I had to research this in some detail in 2017 because the Catholic Herald and our senior curate got it wrong. In 2017, Christmas Day was on a Monday. My church celebrated two Vigil Masses on the Sunday evening. These could count for Sunday or Christmas Day or you could attend them both and count one for each. It is a fallacy that the Mass must include the prayers and readings for the following day. Any valid Latin Rite Catholic Mass fulfils the obligation.

 

[twf]

Any valid Catholic Eucharistic liturgy period actually…

 

[Zach]

Any Mass that starts after 4:00pm on the day before a Sunday or Holiday of Obligation fulfils the precept.

That answers my question. I wasn’t sure what the cut off time is to fulfill the obligation.

The mass on Saturday is not a vigil mass, it is Sunday mass.

Technically yes. But most of the church bulletins I see refer to Saturday late afternoon/evening mass as a vigil.