Easter Duty

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I know that we are bound to go to Confession and Communion during the Easter Season. When the Easter Season officially begin and end? I’m thinking it begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Pentecost Sunday. Correct?
 
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and this is when you must go to confession. Easter begins at the Easter Vigil and ends I believe on Trinity Sunday and this is when you must receive Communion.
 
Close, but you are off by a week, it ends on Trinity Sunday. And starts 4 days after Ash Wednesday.

From the Baltimore Catechism:

Q. 1353. What sin does he commit who neglects to receive Communion during the Easter time?

A. He who neglects to receive Communion during the Easter time commits a mortal sin.

Q. 1354. What is the Easter time?

A. The Easter time is, in this country, the time between the first Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday.

Q. 1355. When is Trinity Sunday?

A. Trinity Sunday is the Sunday after Pentecost, or eight weeks after Easter Sunday; so that there are fourteen weeks in which one may comply with the command of the Church to receive Holy Communion between the first Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday.
 
Kielbasi said:
Close, but you are off by a week, it ends on Trinity Sunday. And starts 4 days after Ash Wednesday.

From the Baltimore Catechism:

Q. 1353. What sin does he commit who neglects to receive Communion during the Easter time?

A. He who neglects to receive Communion during the Easter time commits a mortal sin.

Q. 1354. What is the Easter time?

A. The Easter time is, in this country, the time between the first Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday.

Q. 1355. When is Trinity Sunday?

A. Trinity Sunday is the Sunday after Pentecost, or eight weeks after Easter Sunday; so that there are fourteen weeks in which one may comply with the command of the Church to receive Holy Communion between the first Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday.
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This.

In the U.S., you fulfill your Easter Duty by going to confession and receiving Communion anytime between the beginning of Lent and the end of the Easter season.
 
Cor_ad_Cor said:
This.

In the U.S., you fulfill your Easter Duty by going to confession and receiving Communion anytime between the beginning of Lent and the end of the Easter season.
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Close. In the U.S., the obligation to receive communion may be fulfilled by receiving communion at any time between the First Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday; it might be necessary for a person to go to confession prior to reception of communion. Moreover, ‘for a just reason’, one might fulfill his duty of receiving communion at least once a year by receiving at another time of year.
 
I was always led to understand that Easter Duty was to be completed at some point from the Easter Vigil to first vespers of Trinity Sunday and not during Lent unless there was a reason for doing so.

The Code of Canon Law states:
"Can. 920 §1. After being initiated into the Most Holy Eucharist, each of the faithful is obliged to receive holy communion at least once a year.

§2. This precept must be fulfilled during the Easter season unless it is fulfilled for a just cause at another time during the year."

As the Easter season is a distinct liturgical season it makes sense for the Easter duty to be completed then, although there could be a different local custom in the USA (I’min the UK).
 
The Easter Duty refers to receiving Holy Communion.

Confession isn’t covered by the Easter Duty, unless a person is conscious of mortal sin, in which case Confession is necessary before receiving Holy Communion.

There isn’t a blanket obligation to go to Confession over the Easter Season.
 
Kielbasi said:
Close, but you are off by a week, it ends on Trinity Sunday. And starts 4 days after Ash Wednesday.

From the Baltimore Catechism:

Q. 1353. What sin does he commit who neglects to receive Communion during the Easter time?

A. He who neglects to receive Communion during the Easter time commits a mortal sin.

Q. 1354. What is the Easter time?

A. The Easter time is, in this country, the time between the first Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday.

Q. 1355. When is Trinity Sunday?

A. Trinity Sunday is the Sunday after Pentecost, or eight weeks after Easter Sunday; so that there are fourteen weeks in which one may comply with the command of the Church to receive Holy Communion between the first Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday.
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Out of date. Eastertide ends on Pentecost. It starts at the Easter Vigil. Trinity Sunday is a solemnity in Ordinary Time, and not part of Easter Season in the Ordinary Form calendar. It is a vestige of the Octave of Pentecost. There are now only two Octaves, Christmas and Easter.
 
OraLabora said:
Out of date. Eastertide ends on Pentecost. It starts at the Easter Vigil. Trinity Sunday is a solemnity in Ordinary Time, and not part of Easter Season in the Ordinary Form calendar. It is a vestige of the Octave of Pentecost. There are now only two Octaves, Christmas and Easter.
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Source?
 
I think OraLabora is correct. The Easter season ends on Pentecost, and the Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday, which is a solemnity in the season of Ordinary Time. The Easter Duty must be done between the First Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday.

The OF also has only two octaves, Christmas and Easter.

I’m confused as to why Kielbasi’s source says, “Easter time is between the First Sunday of Lent and Trinity Sunday.” Isn’t Easter time from the Easter Vigil until Pentecost?
 
ProVobis said:
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Liturgia Horarum, Dominica Pentecostes.

Rubric after 2nd Vespers: "Explicit tempus paschale. Post dominicam Pentecostes incipit tempus per annum (vol. III).

As your other message points out, the ability to fulfill the Easter duty outside of Eastertide in the US is by* indult*, not by universal law.
 
There seems to be a discrepancy with the start date of Eastertide. One says it starts with the First Sunday of Lent, another says it starts at the Easter Vigil. That’s a big span there.
 
ProVobis said:
There seems to be a discrepancy with the start date of Eastertide. One says it starts with the First Sunday of Lent, another says it starts at the Easter Vigil. That’s a big span there.
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Well, the Baltimore Catechism is specifically referring to the time in which one can do one’s Easter Duty in the US. That disciplinary rather than liturgical.
 
So with respect to Easter duty, doe it begin with Easter Vigil and end on Penticost or does it begin on Ash Wed and end on Trinity Sun?
 
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ewtn.com/v/experts/showmessage.asp?number=505869&Pg=&Pgnu=&recnu=
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ProVobis said:
There seems to be a discrepancy with the start date of Eastertide. One says it starts with the First Sunday of Lent, another says it starts at the Easter Vigil. That’s a big span there.
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Your link cleared it up. The actual question in the OP was when Easter began and ended, thought the post was about the Easter duty, which could be observed before Easter and up to a week after. So the Easter duty may be fulfilled* outside* of Easter. From your link:

The dioceses of the U.S. have an indult which allows the fulfillment of the Easter duty from the first Sunday of Lent through Most Holy Trinity Sunday.
 
pnewton said:
Your link cleared it up. The actual question in the OP was when Easter began and ended, thought the post was about the Easter duty, which could be observed before Easter and up to a week after. So the Easter duty may be fulfilled* outside* of Easter. From your link:

The dioceses of the U.S. have an indult which allows the fulfillment of the Easter duty from the first Sunday of Lent through Most Holy Trinity Sunday.
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The reason I questioned it is that the ewtn reference is from 2007 and there might have been a more recent piece of legislation that said otherwise. So far no one has produced anything that states that the Easter duty, the subject of this thread, has been restricted only to the period between Easter Vigil and Pentecost. Terms like Eastertide, Easter season, etc. only seem to cloud the issue. We’re confused enough. 🙂
 
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