Holy Days of Obligations

[Grahame]

Can anyone give me a list of all the holy days of obligations please?

Sorry to sound ignorant but I am in the process of converting to the catholic faith at the moment and this would help me a great deal.

I am going to the Feast of St Paul and St Peter mass and wonder what all the other obligitory days were as I would like to attend. I am currently on the journey of faith and will become accepted into the catholic faith in Easter 2005.

My partner is catholic and we are marrying next year.

Many thanks
God Bless

 

[squirt]

Grahame:

Can anyone give me a list of all the holy days of obligations please?

Sorry to sound ignorant but I am in the process of converting to the catholic faith at the moment and this would help me a great deal.

I am going to the Feast of St Paul and St Peter mass and wonder what all the other obligitory days were as I would like to attend. I am currently on the journey of faith and will become accepted into the catholic faith in Easter 2005.

My partner is catholic and we are marrying next year.

Many thanks
God Bless

The appropriate list will depend on under which jurisdiction you fall. In Canada, besides Sundays, there are 2 Holy Days of Obligation: Dec 25 and Jan 1.

Here’s a link to the General Roman Calendar … it includes all of the feasts, most of which aren’t HDO. Feasts come in 3 basic flavours: memorials, feasts, and solemnities, with solemnities being the ‘really big ones’.

cwo.com/~pentrack/catholic/romcal.html

 

[Mike_C]

Things have changed in the last couple of years. Some dioceses now have transferred the Feast of the Ascension to the following Sunday. (so I guess that its not called “Ascension Thursday” anymore). Many in the West no longer celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. Many people, including the priest are on vacation, and its often hard to find a Catholic church in the rural areas.

In Italy, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Joseph, are holy days of Obligation. In Ireland, the feast of St. Patrick is a holy day of obligation.

In the Eastern Catholic Churches, Jan. 6th, Oct. 1, and Sts. Peter and Paul are holy days of obligation.

 

[T.A.Stobie_SFO]

Universal Church:

Canon 1246

*§1: Sunday is the day on which the paschal mystery is celebrated in light of the apostolic tradition and is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church. Also to be observed are the day of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Epiphany, the Ascension and the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Holy Mary Mother of God and her Immaculate Conception and Assumption, Saint Joseph, the Apostles Saints Peter and Paul, and finally, All Saints.
*

In the United States this is modifed with approval of the Vatican to:

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

• if it fails on Saturday or Monday the obligation is lifted

up to the Ecclesiastical Province who can move it to Sunday.​

 

[tee_eff_em]

T.A.Stobie:

In the United States this is modifed with approval of the Vatican to:

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

• if it fails on Saturday or Monday the obligation is lifted

up to the Ecclesiastical Province who can move it to Sunday.​

The one other oddity in the US – When the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception falls on a Sunday, which is necessarily a Sunday of Advent, it is transferred to the following day (which is not unusual). But the obligation is not transferred – At least it was not the last time this happened, in 2002 (cf. BCL calendar notes)

Seems weird to me (but I submit to the bishops)

 

[Teresita]

In England and Wales, tomorrow (SS Peter and Paul) is a Holyday of Obligation (my son’s going to the Vigil Mass this evening, as tomorrow is tricky for him). So is Corpus Christi. In Ireland, St Patrick (unsurprisingly) is an H of O. It varies, as a previous poster says, according to jurisdiction.

Sue (at last breaking out of lurkerdom: I did write a LONG reply to a post on ghastly church architecture, but having done a Preview, and using the browser ‘back button’ to change the message, found I’d lost the whole thing…sunt lacrima rerum)