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I understand that in the dioceses of the US, the faithful may fulfill their Easter Duty during Lent, rather than only in the Easter season proper. Does anyone know if this is true in Canada?
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TheLittleLady
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This is a new one to me. Do you have an example of such a Diocese?I understand that in the dioceses of the US, the faithful may fulfill their Easter Duty during Lent,
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twf
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I understood that it was a USA wide indult.
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HeDa
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You have to contact your parish and ask them what your diocese has decided. There could be some info on the diocese´s webpage.
In dioceses where there are great distances between parishes, it is more common to have a longer time for confession and receiving the Eucharist so it could be both Lent and Easter season together. Especially if there are lots of Catholics who are learning the official language/s and need to travel a great distance to a priest or the priests would travel around the diocese to hear confessions.
In dioceses where there are great distances between parishes, it is more common to have a longer time for confession and receiving the Eucharist so it could be both Lent and Easter season together. Especially if there are lots of Catholics who are learning the official language/s and need to travel a great distance to a priest or the priests would travel around the diocese to hear confessions.
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TheLittleLady
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Maybe there is some confusion about one’s Easter Duty.
The duty “You shall humbly receive your Creator in Holy Communion at least during the Easter season."
This duty helps to assure that we Catholics do not languish in sin for years and years.
The Easter Season lasts from the Easter Vigil until midnight on Pentecost. 50 days long (give or take a couple days for the idiosyncrasies of the Julian calendar).
It has become common practice in the US for there to be additional times for Confession during Lent to prepare people to receive once during the 50 days of Easter.
As with everything, the Church does not demand the impossible, so if a Catholic is in a coma for all of Easter or lives in a very remote place where there are no Catholic priests and the Catholic has no means to travel, or if the Catholic is stationed in outer space and there is only a priest visit ever 3 years or another scenario where it is beyond reasonable effort, the Catholic is not bound to the Easter Duty.
About the duty being moved to Lent, I have never read of that. I did not spend hours researching, but, what research I did showed nothing. Back to our Astronaut Catholic, if he/she is launching into Space during Lent of course they are not bound to the Easter Season Communion.
As our world becomes smaller, the circumstances where someone is unable to make it to Mass once a year becomes less common. There are 4 Catholic Churches in Antarctica!
Have been wracking my brain, but, as the obligation is removed if it is impossible, what would be the reason for extending the Easter Duty retroactively into Lent?
The duty “You shall humbly receive your Creator in Holy Communion at least during the Easter season."
This duty helps to assure that we Catholics do not languish in sin for years and years.
The Easter Season lasts from the Easter Vigil until midnight on Pentecost. 50 days long (give or take a couple days for the idiosyncrasies of the Julian calendar).
It has become common practice in the US for there to be additional times for Confession during Lent to prepare people to receive once during the 50 days of Easter.
As with everything, the Church does not demand the impossible, so if a Catholic is in a coma for all of Easter or lives in a very remote place where there are no Catholic priests and the Catholic has no means to travel, or if the Catholic is stationed in outer space and there is only a priest visit ever 3 years or another scenario where it is beyond reasonable effort, the Catholic is not bound to the Easter Duty.
About the duty being moved to Lent, I have never read of that. I did not spend hours researching, but, what research I did showed nothing. Back to our Astronaut Catholic, if he/she is launching into Space during Lent of course they are not bound to the Easter Season Communion.
As our world becomes smaller, the circumstances where someone is unable to make it to Mass once a year becomes less common. There are 4 Catholic Churches in Antarctica!
Have been wracking my brain, but, as the obligation is removed if it is impossible, what would be the reason for extending the Easter Duty retroactively into Lent?
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TheLittleLady
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While it is good if you and the priest speak the same language, it is not required for a valid confession.Especially if there are lots of Catholics who are learning the official language/s and need to travel a great distance to a priest or the priests would travel around the diocese to hear confessions.
ETA. The duty to confess any grave sins once per year is not tied to the Easter Season, it may take place at any time in the year:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P75.HTM
The second precept (“You shall confess your sins at least once a year.") ensures preparation for the Eucharist by the reception of the sacrament of reconciliation, which continues Baptism’s work of conversion and forgiveness.
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OldCAFMember
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What is the source?I understood that it was a USA wide indult.
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OraLabora
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I think this is an area where we have to reconcile the letter of the law with the spirit of the law. It says in essence that a Catholic has to be in a state of grace at least once a year through the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist, and that the most appropriate time for this renewal is Easter season (or confession during Lent and communion during Eastertide).
For most of us here, who like myself confess regularly and receive communion also regularly, it’s really a non-issue.
So it really means that either a blasé Catholic should make the effort once a year (in the hope of it curing his nonchalance), or a remotely stationed Catholic should attempt to reach the sacraments on an annual basis, within reason. It wouldn’t be reasonable, for instance for the hypothetical astronaut Catholic to conjure up a space shuttle to take him/her back-and-forth to Earth for the duty, or have one send up a priest, the costs being astronomical (no pun intended).
Same thing for a migrant worker of limited means in a foreign land where Mass isn’t available. But for, say, a mining engineer in a remote camp who has access to a motor vehicle (I’m guessing likely a pickup truck!) or can afford the plane ticket, it behooves him or her to make the trek back to civilization once a year for the “duty”.
The Church is not in the business of handing out speeding tickets to ambulances even if she is the one who set the speed limits!!!
For most of us here, who like myself confess regularly and receive communion also regularly, it’s really a non-issue.
So it really means that either a blasé Catholic should make the effort once a year (in the hope of it curing his nonchalance), or a remotely stationed Catholic should attempt to reach the sacraments on an annual basis, within reason. It wouldn’t be reasonable, for instance for the hypothetical astronaut Catholic to conjure up a space shuttle to take him/her back-and-forth to Earth for the duty, or have one send up a priest, the costs being astronomical (no pun intended).
Same thing for a migrant worker of limited means in a foreign land where Mass isn’t available. But for, say, a mining engineer in a remote camp who has access to a motor vehicle (I’m guessing likely a pickup truck!) or can afford the plane ticket, it behooves him or her to make the trek back to civilization once a year for the “duty”.
The Church is not in the business of handing out speeding tickets to ambulances even if she is the one who set the speed limits!!!
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TheLittleLady
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That speaks of this indult, but, does not give a link to any document. I spent time on the USCCB website and found nothing. Would like to see the document.
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1ke
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Call up your diocesan archives department and ask for it.
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Arwing
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Yeah I’m kind of confused about that, because the canon even says that for a “just cause” it can be fulfilled at another time (as would be expected… the person in a coma you mention through the Easter season is obviously unable to receive at that time), and the Church of course does not require the impossible as in those other scenarios.Have been wracking my brain, but, as the obligation is removed if it is impossible, what would be the reason for extending the Easter Duty retroactively into Lent?
Anyway I haven’t heard of anything like this in Canada. “Easter season” is what I’ve always been taught.
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Pug
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Second plenary council of Baltimore states it, I believe, referencing an indult by Pope Pius the eighth. But that is quite ancient in internet terms, so probably not on the internet. My commentary to the code of canon law footnotes it.
I have no idea about Canada, though.
“It” being first Sunday of lent to trinity Sunday.
I have no idea about Canada, though.
“It” being first Sunday of lent to trinity Sunday.
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