Holy Day of Obligation? All Saints Day?

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Can someone advise me if Nov.1st. (all Saints Day) in the USA all 50 States is a Holy Day of Obligation?!?All of Hawaii is in the DIOCESE OF HONOLULUL & I have a calender from my parish Church and it states it is a Holy Day of Obligation. I phoned the priest residence (office closed at 2:30PM) & I think I woke the priest up. I asked if tomorrow was a HDOO and he said “I think so” & Mass is at 7AM with no other time. The church bulletin from last Sunday does not mention any thing about it & neither does the Honolulu Diocese website. I called another local Catholic church & the office lady stated; “Not in this diocese”. HELP!😦
 
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Can someone advise me if Nov.1st. (all Saints Day) in the USA all 50 States is a Holy Day of Obligation?!?All of Hawaii is in the DIOCESE OF HONOLULUL & I have a calender from my parish Church and it states it is a Holy Day of Obligation. I phoned the priest residence (office closed at 2:30PM) & I think I woke the priest up. I asked if tomorrow was a HDOO and he said “I think so” & Mass is at 7AM with no other time. The church bulletin from last Sunday does not mention any thing about it & neither does the Honolulu Diocese website. I called another local Catholic church & the office lady stated; “Not in this diocese”. HELP!😦
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Every parish in my area is putting on extra masses for 1 November, plus on extra one tonight after sundown
 
Andruschak said:
Every parish in my area is putting on extra masses for 1 November, plus on extra one tonight after sundown
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I’m glad to hear your parishes are observing the Holyday. I just don’t understand why Hawaii does.
 
kleary said:
Catholics in Hawaii only have two holy days of obligation in addition to all Sundays, December 25 and December 8. This comes from “following their neighbors in the Pacific”.

rc.net/joliet/straymond/pulpit/holyday.htm
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Thanks Kleary, for the website. Only I don’t know who they could be talking about here…“following their neighbors in the Pacific”. I don’t know of any neighbors they are talking about as our closest neighbor is California at 2400 miles away.
 
Br.Rich_SFO said:
That is a new to me. I didn’t know that the Bishops in Hawaii were not part of the USCCB.
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Right on Br.Rich! I still don’t know what neighbor they are talking about. SF Calif. is the closest neighbor. Most people think LA or SD are the closest, but not so.
 
Another classic example of the games of Bishops’ Conferences, which serve only to confuse the faithful (especially the simple) and to create an atmosphere of constant change…
  1. Moving Ascension to Sunday. Absolutely no justification other than the concession that asking people to go on that Thursday would be a burden. Liturgically ruins the whole period before Pentecost - the “original” novena of 9 days to pray for the coming the Holy Spirit.
  2. Declaring some days are only obligatory if they’re not Mondays or Saturdays. Absolutely no justification other than the concession that going to Mass 2 days in a row is burdensome. Liturgically downplays major festivals that were already few in number. In at least 2 parishes I’ve heard priests emphasize that you don’t need to come. Ergo, low attendance. A priest I know who clearly printed in his bulletin that there was no obligation, but that there would still be a sung Mass at night and extra noontime and morning liturgies was told by the Chancery that he was being “divisive” (a favorite word nowadays).
Enough already. It’s time the laity told the Bishops’ Conference to stop mucking around with Holy Days and whether it’s a Wednesday, a full moon, a leap year, a whatever and just start encouraging people to celebrate major liturgical days with a Mass.

We can thank secular society for one thing. If it weren’t for Christmas being a secular holiday, you’d see the crackpots in the Bishops’ Conference propose moving Christmas to Sunday every year.
 
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Thanks Kleary, for the website. Only I don’t know who they could be talking about here…“following their neighbors in the Pacific”. I don’t know of any neighbors they are talking about as our closest neighbor is California at 2400 miles away.
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Br.Rich_SFO said:
That is a new to me. I didn’t know that the Bishops in Hawaii were not part of the USCCB.
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The “neighbors in the Pacific” would appear to refer to the Conference of Bishops of the South Pacific. The USCCB Liturgical Calendar (2006) for Dioceses of the United States of America contains this miscellaneous note:
  1. In a decree dated March 23, 1992, the bishop of Honolulu designated Christmas and the Immaculate Conception as the only two holy days of obligation for the State of Hawaii. This implements the indult received from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on May 26, 1990, and the subsequent nihil obstat from the USCCB allowing Hawaii to legislate on this matter in accord with the policies of the Conference of Bishops of the South Pacific (CEPAC).
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I called another local Catholic church & the office lady stated; “Not in this diocese”. HELP!😦
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I think I would find out what the bishop actually said rather than relying on the word of “an office lady.”
 
tee_eff_em said:
The “neighbors in the Pacific” would appear to refer to the Conference of Bishops of the South Pacific. The USCCB Liturgical Calendar (2006) for Dioceses of the United States of America contains this miscellaneous note:

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Tee’s right…

I believe this is for cultural reasons that the diocese of Honolulu falls in accord with the policies of the Conference of Bishops of the South Pacific (CEPAC).

There are mutual agreements between the two conferences regarding Hawaii…
 
Mahalo all for your (name removed by moderator)ut. However I still think this is all wierd as I was always in believe that the Catholic (universal) Church was just that… " The ONE true Church operating UNIVERSAL world wide". And another thing…* Hawaii is not in the South Pacific!*. 😦
 
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