Feast Days

  • Thread starter Thread starter Flos_Campi
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
F

Flos_Campi

Guest
Who dertermined the dates of Feast days, and Holy days of obligation ?
Why have they all been moved to Sunday’s ?

I read somewhere that it is ok to move Holy Day of Corpus Christi now to the Sunday Mass as it is within the octave of Corpus Christi ?
I would very much appreciate a more detailed explanation please.

Many thanks
Flos:
 
From the Code of Canon Law:CHAPTER I : FEAST DAYS Canon 1246 §1 The Lord’s Day, on which the paschal mystery is celebrated, is by apostolic tradition to be observed in the universal Church as the primary holyday of obligation. In the same way the following holydays are to be observed: the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Epiphany, the Ascension of Christ, the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, the feast of Mary the Mother of God, her Immaculate Conception, her Assumption, the feast of St Joseph, the feast of the Apostles SS Peter and Paul, and the feast of All Saints. §2 However, the Episcopal Conference may, with the prior approval of the Apostolic See, suppress certain holydays of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday. The who of your question, then, is the Episcopal Conference, the bishops of your country.

If you are in the United States, you may find this U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ webpage helpful.

,
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top