Is it true that a wedding Mass doesn't satify the Sunday obligation?

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Well, my gf’s mother has brought to our attention that attending a wedding on Sunday (and receiving communion) does not count for our Sunday obligation. Is that true? I suppose it doesn’t seem that out there to me, but I’m just curious if anyone has some documentation (like the CCC or something) that says this.

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Eamon
 
I think gf’s mom may be wrong on this one. I’ve looked it up in the CCC and found reference to the Sunday Eucharistic Celebration Obligation, no exception for Wedding Masses. Looked up Matrimony masses and nothing regarding them not meeting the Sunday obligation.

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Well, my gf’s mother has brought to our attention that attending a wedding on Sunday (and receiving communion) does not count for our Sunday obligation. Is that true?
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I’ve never been to, or heard of, a Catholic wedding on Sunday.

But a wedding mass on Sunday is perfectly copasetic for Sunday obligation. A Catholic wedding outside of mass, whether or not communion is received or not, is not.
 
The closest I could come to this is a Wedding on Saturday after 4:00 PM. Essentially, if the Wedding Mass uses the Mass of Sunday, it fulfills the Sunday obligation. This came from the Archdiocese of Denver web site
archden.org/handbook/chapter5/part7.php
The specific section is 5.7.1

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turboEDvo:
Well, my gf’s mother has brought to our attention that attending a wedding on Sunday (and receiving communion) does not count for our Sunday obligation. Is that true? I suppose it doesn’t seem that out there to me, but I’m just curious if anyone has some documentation (like the CCC or something) that says this.

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Eamon
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Your gf’s mother is incorrect as long as it is a Nuptial Mass.

Ask an Apologist: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=20461
 
I dont think there are weddings on Sunday but I know that if the readings are not the readings for that Sunday it would not fulfill your Sunday obligation…besides quit trying to get a “freebee”. You are starting to act like me!!!
Mike
 
Mike Dye:
I dont think there are weddings on Sunday but I know that if the readings are not the readings for that Sunday it would not fulfill your Sunday obligation…besides quit trying to get a “freebee”. You are starting to act like me!!!
Mike
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Is that a bad thing?? I am sorry that Mom is “wrong” but the Denver site said the same thing that she had said…about the Sunday readings needing to be present to fulfill the obligation.
 
Mike Dye:
I dont think there are weddings on Sunday but I know that if the readings are not the readings for that Sunday it would not fulfill your Sunday obligation…besides quit trying to get a “freebee”. You are starting to act like me!!!
Mike
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There is most definitely a wedding tomorrow as I am altar serving it. So…:rolleyes: But, I can understand if the readings are different why it wouldn’t fulfill Sunday obligations. Thanks for the info.

Eamon
 
If a nuptial mass is performed on a Sunday, then it is required that the Sunday readings are used at the mass. If a Sunday marriage ceremony is performed without a mass, then of course the readings may be readings said for a nuptial service…however under no circumstances is Communion allowed to be distributed. This is a liturgical abuse if it is distributed.
 
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turboEDvo:
Well, my gf’s mother has brought to our attention that attending a wedding on Sunday (and receiving communion) does not count for our Sunday obligation. Is that true? I suppose it doesn’t seem that out there to me, but I’m just curious if anyone has some documentation (like the CCC or something) that says this.

Thanks
Eamon
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This is complicated since you do not indicate in what country, what day or what time the wedding takes place. Or the readings used in the Mass? Where it is celebrated and by who?

A valid Mass that takes place AFTER 4 pm on Saturday or before midnight on Sunday and as I understand the wording of the liturgy documents and uses the readings of the Sunday or other authorized alternative readings (for that Sunday) would satisfy the Sunday obligation. Otherwise no. I other words if a wedding takes place at 1PM Saturday it would not satisfy the Sunday obligation.
 
A Mass on Sunday is a Mass on Sunday. It is the Holy Eucharist in either case. While Sunday readings are certainly the norm, there is no canonical requirement that the readings must be of the Sunday, in order to fulfill the obligation.
 
Br. Rich SFO:
This is complicated since you do not indicate in what country, what day or what time the wedding takes place. Or the readings used in the Mass? Where it is celebrated and by who?

A valid Mass that takes place AFTER 4 pm on Saturday or before midnight on Sunday and as I understand the wording of the liturgy documents and uses the readings of the Sunday or other authorized alternative readings (for that Sunday) would satisfy the Sunday obligation. Otherwise no. I other words if a wedding takes place at 1PM Saturday it would not satisfy the Sunday obligation.
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OK. Los Angeles, CA, USA. I don’t who’s celebrating or what readings will be used.
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Fashina86:
Eamon, I guess we are going to the 5:30 as well!
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This is true. Better to cover our bases!

Eamon
 
Next month, my husband’s pastor is supposed to perform a wedding during the regularly scheduled 12 noon Mass. We’ll see how that plays out… :rolleyes:
 
Detroit Sue:
Next month, my husband’s pastor is supposed to perform a wedding during the regularly scheduled 12 noon Mass. We’ll see how that plays out… :rolleyes:
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I’m all for that! Lets get the Sacraments back in focus.
 
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Next month, my husband’s pastor is supposed to perform a wedding during the regularly scheduled 12 noon Mass. We’ll see how that plays out… :rolleyes:
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I’m all for that! Lets get the Sacraments back in focus.
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I don’t think that would work very well, unless it was a very small wedding.

To have a couple hundred extra people at a regularly scheduled Sunday mass for a wedding sounds like mass confusion.
 
Mike Dye:
I know that if the readings are not the readings for that Sunday it would not fulfill your Sunday obligation
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I don’t know how you can know that, because it’s 100% wrong.

The obligation of assisting at Mass is satisfied wherever Mass is celebrated in a catholic rite either on a holyday itself or on the evening of the previous day.
 
Originally Posted by Mike Dye
I know that if the readings are not the readings for that Sunday it would not fulfill your Sunday obligation
I don’t know how you can know that, because it’s 100% wrong.
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The obligation of assisting at Mass is satisfied wherever Mass is celebrated in a catholic rite either on a holyday itself or on the evening of the previous day.
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I believe that you’re correct, that comes straight from the code of canon law.

And it makes sense. The readings are different in the mainstream mass , the latin mass and the eastern rite liturgy or mass.

Yet all three count equally for the obligation, even if the Catholic doesn’t even understand the language the readings are read in.

Of course, there are readings for a wedding mass, whether or not they are different or the same shouldn’t matter.
 
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