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palmas85
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Paris Blues:
No Midnight Mass? You guys are really missing out. They are really nice.
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Andreas_Hofer
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I think the midnight Mass might actually be able be celebrated prior to midnight, and I’m guessing that 10 p.m. might be the legal threshold for that. So, if that is the case, then their is no irregularity about it. (Similarly, the Easter Vigil is meant to be celebrated at midnight but may be celebrated as early as 8 p.m.)So this begs the question:
If the Vigil is celebrated at 6:00 pm and Midnight Mass at 10:00 am, and Mass at Dawn is celebrated at 8:00 am and Christmas Mass during the day is celebrated at 11:00 am, you could attend all four, and you could receive the Eucharist at all four, but because the Midnight Mass isn’t being celebrated at midnight, would it be licit to do so?
However, if the Mass were being illicitly celebrated, I would refrain from receiving.
…Unless that were my only choice for fulfilling my holy day obligation. I’m not sure exactly what the norms are for receiving at an illicitly celebrated Mass, but I know that most of the Masses I’ve attended in the past 5 years have had at least one illicit element to them, and I don’t think the Church condemns my reception of the Eucharist at them. I’m not sure if there is any clearly defined line short of schismatic Masses after which receiving the sacraments at the celebration would constitute either support for or cooperation/participation in the disobedience.
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