Immaculate Conception feastday

[CyrilSebastian]

In the Roman Catholic Church, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is December 8th. If this feast day occurs on a Monday, is it still a holy day of obligation?

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

It depends what country you’re talking about.

In the United States, the Immaculate Conception is our patronal feast. So unlike other holy days where the obligation is removed if it falls on a Saturday or Monday, the obligation remains for December 8.

This year the Immaculate Conception falls on a Sunday. It will be observed on Monday, December 9, but while the observance transfers, the obligation to attend Mass doesn’t also transfer.

Other countries observe different sets of holy days of obligation so the Immaculate Conception may or may not be observed.

 

[adawgj]

I go to All Saints Day, Christmas, Easter, Ash Wednesday

 

[Mount_Carmel]

Here in the UK it is not a Holy Day of Obligation [unless like this year it falls on a Sunday], but the Feast of the Assumption most certainly is. {This year I received a dispensation as it was also the day my dear wife died and I also had to do several hundred miles of travelling.

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

I go to All Saints Day, Christmas, Easter, Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. Easter always falls on Sunday so it carries the normal obligation.

Since you are in California you should also be attending Mass for the Assumption in August.

 

[CatholicHockey7]

In the Roman Catholic Church, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is December 8th. If this feast day occurs on a Monday, is it still a holy day of obligation?

It depends what country you’re talking about.

In the United States, the Immaculate Conception is our patronal feast. So unlike other holy days where the obligation is removed if it falls on a Saturday or Monday, the obligation remains for December 8.

This year the Immaculate Conception falls on a Sunday. It will be observed on Monday, December 9, but while the observance transfers, the obligation to attend Mass doesn’t also transfer.

Other countries observe different sets of holy days of obligation so the Immaculate Conception may or may not be observed.

Immaculate Conception is ALWAYS a Holy Day of obligation.

See:

catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/a/2013_Lit_Cal.htm
catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/f/Imm_Con_Holy.htm

And also note this promulgation from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops:

National Conference of Catholic Bishops
United States of America
Decree of Promulgation

On December 13, 1991 the members of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States of America made the following general decree concerning holy days of obligation for Latin rite Catholics:

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.

This decree of the Conference of Bishops was approved and confirmed by the Apostolic See by a decree of the Congregation for Bishops (Prot. N. 296/84), signed by Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, prefect of the Congregation, and dated July 4, 1992.

As President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, I hereby declare that the effective date of this decree for all the Latin rite dioceses of the United States of America will be January 1, 1993, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.

Given at the offices of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC, November 17, 1992.

• Daniel E. Pilarczyk
  Archbishop of Cincinnati
  President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops

Robert N. Lynch
General Secretary

Immaculate Conception is not mentioned in the paragraph pertaining to abrogating the obligation.

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

Immaculate Conception is ALWAYS a Holy Day of obligation.

As I said, it depends on the country. In the US it is always a day of obligation. In other countries, it is not.

In the UK and Wales they observe Christmas, Sts. Peter and Paul, the Assumption of Mary, and All Saints. In Canada they observe only Christmas and Mary, Mother of God.

 

[TimothyH]

As I said, it depends on the country. In the US it is always a day of obligation. In other countries, it is not.

In the UK and Wales they observe Christmas, Sts. Peter and Paul, the Assumption of Mary, and All Saints. In Canada they observe only Christmas and Mary, Mother of God.

UK, Wales and Canada need to get with the program.

-Tim-

 

[tee_eff_em]

[post=10862908]Nailed it[/post].


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[1ke]

Immaculate Conception is ALWAYS a Holy Day of obligation.

However, this year the feast falls on a Sunday in Advent.

The Sunday of Advent takes priority on the liturgical calendar. The feast is therefore transferred to Monday, Dec 9, and the feast of Juan Diego is omitted.

The obligation does not transfer. Therefore, this year in the US, the feast is not a holy day of obligation.

See note 8 on page 7:

usccb.org/about/divine-worship/liturgical-calendar/upload/2013cal.pdf

 

[corsair]

For those who follow the EF Mass, the Immaculate Conception takes priority. In the OF Mass, its Advent.

Check it out.

 

[thistle]

However, this year the feast falls on a Sunday in Advent.

The Sunday of Advent takes priority on the liturgical calendar. The feast is therefore transferred to Monday, Dec 9, and the feast of Juan Diego is omitted.

The obligation does not transfer. Therefore, this year in the US, the feast is not a holy day of obligation.

See note 8 on page 7:

usccb.org/about/divine-worship/liturgical-calendar/upload/2013cal.pdf

Here our priest told us that the obligation still exists but as it falls on a Sunday both obligations are fulfilled by attending Mass.

 

[EphelDuath]

The obligation is to go to Church on the day of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which is December 8. This is a Sunday.

Although the feast’s Propers are transferred to the following Monday, that is not the Holy Day of Obligation. It is December 8, even though the Propers for the Immaculate Conception aren’t on that day.

 

[janeway529]

So, does going to evening Mass on Sunday fulfill both obligations or does it depend on the propers used?

 

[liturgyluver]

The Italian Bishops managed to persuade the Vatican to allow them to celebrate the solemnity on the Sunday. See link below:

chiesacattolica.it/liturgia/siti_di_uffici_e_servizi/ufficio_liturgico_nazionale/00040801_Solennita_dell_Immacolata.html

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

So, does going to evening Mass on Sunday fulfill both obligations or does it depend on the propers used?

The only obligation is to attend Mass on December 8 (Sunday) or the evening before.

 

[Joe_5859]

However, this year the feast falls on a Sunday in Advent.

The Sunday of Advent takes priority on the liturgical calendar. The feast is therefore transferred to Monday, Dec 9, and the feast of Juan Diego is omitted.

The obligation does not transfer. Therefore, this year in the US, the feast is not a holy day of obligation.

See note 8 on page 7:

usccb.org/about/divine-worship/liturgical-calendar/upload/2013cal.pdf

Here is the quote for those who have not followed the link:

Since December 8, 2013, is the Second Sunday of Advent, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is transferred to Monday, December 9, 2013. The obligation to attend Mass, however, does not transfer. The Optional Memorial of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, December 9, is omitted this year.

 

[ProVobis]

For those who follow the EF Mass, the Immaculate Conception takes priority. In the OF Mass, its Advent.

Check it out.

This is true. Am looking forward to the Latin Gloria.

 

[LoveGod102]

In the Roman Catholic Church, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is December 8th. If this feast day occurs on a Monday, is it still a holy day of obligation?

My Catholic calendar which I received free from a local Catholic parish says that it is not a holy day of obligation, which I assume mean that the Bishop’s Conference dispensed it in the US.

Edit: Apparently I was wrong, decem 9th is not a holy day of obligation, because the actual feast is the day before, and the obligation is fulfilled by attending the Sunday mass.

 

[LoveGod102]

It depends what country you’re talking about.

In the United States, the Immaculate Conception is our patronal feast. So unlike other holy days where the obligation is removed if it falls on a Saturday or Monday, the obligation remains for December 8.

This year the Immaculate Conception falls on a Sunday. It will be observed on Monday, December 9, but while the observance transfers, the obligation to attend Mass doesn’t also transfer.

Other countries observe different sets of holy days of obligation so the Immaculate Conception may or may not be observed.

Does that mean that the obligation is on Sunday? My Catholic calendar says that the ninth is not a holy day of obligation. I guess it could be wrong though.