No, it’s been transferred to next Sunday, which is, of course, itself a Holy Day of Obligation.
I’m still learning! I have known the Ascension to be celebrated only on Thursday, so I know how you feel.Oh, ok.,thanks
So much I still don’t know about being Catholic…
Looks like I don’t have to worry about Mother Mary’s Assumption either since it falls on a Monday this year.
In the EF, it is celebrated on Thursday. It is celebrated in the OF on Sunday, if the Ascension Thursday Solemnity is not considered as an obligation (people find it hard to go to mass on a Thu. in an area)
Ecclesiastical Province doesn’t mean Archdiocese. The Ecclesiastical Provinces are named after the Archdiocese. They are made up of the Archdiocese and its suffrien dioceses.
This coming Thursday, May 5, 2016, is a holy day of obligation for my parish.
You’ve already received the answer, but just to be thorough, the Solemnity of the Ascension is still a Holy Day of Obligation everywhere in the US. It simply has been transferred to the following Sunday for most (but not all) of the dioceses here. In those dioceses where it has been transferred, if you go to Mass on “Ascension Thursday”, you hear readings for Thursday of the 6th Week of Ordinary Time. And when you go on the following Sunday, you hear the readings for the Ascension. In dioceses where it has not been transferred, you get the Ascension liturgy on the traditional Thursday and the readings for the 7th Sunday of Easter the following Sunday.
Basically, the Northeast and Nebraska.
Yes, except the Provences of Baltimore and Washington.Basically, the Northeast and Nebraska.
I do understand this and I compliment you for the comprehensive yet succinct list.
Here I’m confused and asking for some clarification, not argument. I note that this poster is in the Phillipines but that is not my issue. My questions is, in the US for that matter does the EF or OF come into play when determining when an individuation is obligated to attend Mass when holydays are tranferred.
No.
Thank you. I thought that was the case but wasn’t 100% sure. I gather friom your second paragraph then another way of putting it would be that the EF or OF determines the calendar but not the obligation.No.
No matter which liturgy – Which maintain different calendars – One typically attends, the current (1983) Code of Canon Law determines what days one is obligated to assist at Mass.
If you live in an area where the solemnity is translated to Sunday and attend a Mass according to the Missal of John XXIII on Thursday, you will hear the Mass for Ascension even though there is no obligation to satisfy on that day. (And you are still, naturally, obligated on the following Sunday, even though on that day you will not hear the Mass of the Ascension)
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Armchair Liturgical Calendar Nerd
Yes, that sounds correct.
I was writing only of Latin Rite Catholics. Eastern Churches naturally maintain their own calendars and the faithful may bear differing obligations. Or, they may be obligated on the same feast, but which may be celebrated on a different calendar date. (I believe, for instance, that Epiphany is not typically translated by the Eastern rites, and I am *pretty *sure the same holds true for Ascension)
Maryland, Delaware, DC are not Northeastern states. South of the Mason-Dixon line.
As someone who grew up in Delaware, we 100% consider ourselves a Northeastern State because Delaware never left the Union.
I usually see Delaware (along with New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and several of our south-of-the-M-D-line neighbors) designated “Mid-Atlantic”. I usually think of the “Northeast” as being New York and above (which really means New York plus New England).
When I was in school, they used to teach that the Northeast was made up of the Mid-Atlantic and New England states.I usually see Delaware (along with New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and several of our south-of-the-M-D-line neighbors) designated “Mid-Atlantic”. I usually think of the “Northeast” as being New York and above (which really means New York plus New England).
(I used to think New York was part of New England, until my bride disabused me of that notion)
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