Ave Maria!
Do all the Catholics who attend Sunday Mass also attend Mass on Holy days of obligation? I guess the answe woul be no. Shouldn’t they do that?
And is there any diffeence between Sundays and holy days of obligation?
Catholics are required to go to Mass every Sunday, and any other holy days of obligation that are not abrogated
in their diocese. There is a difference between Sunday and the other holy days because some holy days are transferred to Sunday, or aborogated (not required). For example Monday August 14 is aborogated this year in the USA. For the USA:
In addition to Sunday, the days to be observed as holy days of obligation in the Latin Rite dioceses of the United States of America, in conformity with canon 1246, are as follows:
January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the solemnity of the Ascension *
August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
November 1, the solemnity of All Saints
December 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
December 25, the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Whenever January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, or August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption, or November 1, the solemnity of All Saints, falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, the precept to attend Mass is abrogated.
- " the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States decrees that the Ecclesiastical Provinces of the United States may transfer the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter to the Seventh Sunday of Easter…"
usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/canon-law/complementary-norms/canon-1246.cfm