Feria days

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What Mass is said on Feria days, for example, today? Looking at my old school calendar with the little red fishies on Fridays, we’ve got quite a few this week and next.
 
In the Tridentine calendar it appears to be a day without a Feast. For example, this coming Friday we celebrate the feast of St. Leo the Great. But everyday this week before Friday is a Feria.

I’m just wondering if the Mass of the day is at the priest’s discretion, i.e., votive Mass, Mass for the dead, etc.
 
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I’m just wondering if the Mass of the day is at the priest’s discretion, i.e., votive Mass, Mass for the dead, etc.
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I was wondering the same thing myself when our bulletin had Paschaltide feria. I was prepared for the Holy Trinity and I think the priest said the Mass of yesterday…Sunday…Good Shepherd.Usually he will post the Mass on the front door or annouce it before Mass, but today he didn’t and I think there were others thrown off because not many were following along in their missals during the Propers. I am not sure what tomorrow will bring.:rolleyes:
 
The Mass on a ferial day is the Mass from the previous Sunday.
 
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The Mass on a ferial day is the Mass from the previous Sunday.
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I found this out today. Now last week that wasn’t the case. But the bulletin didn’t denote “Paschaltide Feria” like it did this week. It is also another priest saying Mass this week, I wonder if that made a difference?
 
Last week, being Easter Week, had a proper Mass for each day of the octave. When the octave ends, the ferias begin, whenever there is no proper Mass of the day, such as a saint’s day. Because the ferias presently are in Easter season (hence the term paschaltide feria), white vestments are still worn and the paschal candle is lighted. When we move into ordinary time (season after Pentecost in the old missal), green will prevail.

On ferias (which is simply Latin for weekday), the priest may celebrate a votive Mass, a Mass for the dead, or the Mass from the previous Sunday. Each of these Masses has its own set of readings. However, at regularly scheduled daily Masses, most will simply continue the daily readings according to the lectionary, interrupting that cycle only when a feast or solemnity occurs.
 
Chatter163 said:
On ferias (which is simply Latin for weekday), the priest may celebrate a votive Mass, a Mass for the dead, or the Mass from the previous Sunday. Each of these Masses has its own set of readings. However, at regularly scheduled daily Masses, most will simply continue the daily readings according to the lectionary, interrupting that cycle only when a feast or solemnity occurs.
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Are you speaking of the OF here? Strictly speaking, the Mass of the previous Sunday is not resumed- although Sunday propers are used. Each day in the Easter season has its own collect. There are 2 sets of formularies for each day of the week that are used in alternate weeks. The Prayer over the Gifts and the Postcommunions for the sets are drawn from the formularies of the Sundays of Eastertide.
In the OF, unlike the EF, Votive Masses are not permitted in the Easter season except for a “real need or pastoral advantage” like First Friday. Similarly daily Masses for the dead are usually restricted to Ordinary Time.
 
Are you speaking of the OF here? Strictly speaking, the Mass of the previous Sunday is not resumed- although Sunday propers are used. Each day in the Easter season has its own collect. There are 2 sets of formularies for each day of the week that are used in alternate weeks. The Prayer over the Gifts and the Postcommunions for the sets are drawn from the formularies of the Sundays of Eastertide.
In the OF, unlike the EF, Votive Masses are not permitted in the Easter season except for a “real need or pastoral advantage” like First Friday. Similarly daily Masses for the dead are usually restricted to Ordinary Time.
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This does become a bit confusing, as some of the variables differ with the two forms, not the least of which is the status of Easter ferias, like those of Advent, as a sort of semi-protected class in the OF.

I was attempting to speak as broadly as possible to the original question. I am aware that the readings differ, but since the propers themselves (i.e., collects) are basically taken from the Sunday Mass, I figured that my explanation was reasonably accurate, though it does apply more perfectly to ferias during “ordinary time” (I do not like that term at all) than to Easter.
 
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