Holy Days of Obligation- Maronite Church?

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What are the Holy days of obligation in the Maronite Church? are they any different to the Latin rite?
 
Starting from the beginning of the Liturgical Year:

All Saints (1 NOV) ****
Immaculate Conception (8 DEC)
Christmas (25DEC)
Circumcision (1 JAN)
Epiphany (6JAN) ***
St Maron (9 FEB)
S Joseph (19MAR) **
Ascension (10 days before Pentecost)
Ss Peter & Paul (29JUN) *
Dormition (Assumption) (15AUG)
Exaltation of the Holy Cross (14SEP) *
  • feast observed on the day but “obligation” transferred to the nearest Sunday
    ** feast observed but “obligation” technically suppressed
    *** feast should be (and normally is) celebrated on the day itself, but has been known to be transferred to the nearest Sunday.
    **** this is a latinization and was reincorporated into the Maronite calendar as a day of “obligation” fairly recently. The traditional observance of “All Saints” in all the (West) Syriac Churches is the 3rd Sunday before the beginning of Lent (known as the Sunday of the Righteous and the Just).
I think that covers it.
 
malphono said:
Starting from the beginning of the Liturgical Year:

All Saints (1 NOV) ****
Immaculate Conception (8 DEC)
Christmas (25DEC)
Circumcision (1 JAN)
Epiphany (6JAN) ***
St Maron (9 FEB)
S Joseph (19MAR) **
Ascension (10 days before Pentecost)
Ss Peter & Paul (29JUN) *
Dormition (Assumption) (15AUG)
Exaltation of the Holy Cross (14SEP) *
  • feast observed on the day but “obligation” transferred to the nearest Sunday
    ** feast observed but “obligation” technically suppressed
    *** feast should be (and normally is) celebrated on the day itself, but has been known to be transferred to the nearest Sunday.
    **** this is a latinization and was reincorporated into the Maronite calendar as a day of “obligation” fairly recently. The traditional observance of “All Saints” in all the (West) Syriac Churches is the 3rd Sunday before the beginning of Lent (known as the Sunday of the Righteous and the Just).
I think that covers it.
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Thanks. Are these days the same for all Maronites world wide?
 
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