Is January 1 a Holy Day of Obligation or not?

[Br.Rich_SFO]

Yes, Brother Rich, I know. I was thanking the poster upthread for her clarification; it was mis-named in our parish bulletin, hence my mistake.

It’s The Solemnity of Mary, Maybe that is where your bulletin person got mixed up.

 

[Harpazo]

For Maronites, January 1st is a “Holy Day of Obligation.”

I’m not sure for the rest of the Eastern Catholic Churches though.

Pace e Bene
Andrew

 

[AJV]

Why is the Monday after Easter a HDoO? And December 26?? Are they special patronal feasts days in Germany?

Originally, the whole of the Easter Octave were Holy Days of Obligation. Eventually it was limited to Monday and Tuesday (which until 1955 had a higher rank than the other days of the Easter Octave) and even those disappeared.

The same was observed for Pentecost (and even in the 1970 missal it is noted that the Mass of Pentecost may be celebrated on the Monday and Tuesday where people attend)

 

[Digitonomy]

Whatever happened to the World Day of Prayer for Peace, which I seem to recall was the title of the January 1 Holy Day of Obligation back in the 80s?

 

[joecap]

Well, speaking for myself, our church only has ONE MASS scheduled for January 1, at 10:00 AM.
I cannot attend, as I am working today.

However, when I think about it, since we have a very large parish, I don’t see how they can call it today a Holy Day when they only schedule one Mass, whereas the church is normally packed with standing room only for all the Masses for Christmas:
3 on Christmas Eve, plus Midnight Mass, and two masses on Christmas Day.

If everyone fulfilled their obligation for today at my church, it would be like trying to get 100 people into a small car, not to mention parking.

If I were not working today, I would have gone, but I would have shown up about two hours before the Mass.

 

[anamchara]

I was planning on going but I would like to know what our diocese says. I went to our website and couldn’t find anything. Now I don’t know if it is a day of obligation or not.

 

[Isa_Almisry]

I was planning on going but I would like to know what our diocese says. I went to our website and couldn’t find anything. Now I don’t know if it is a day of obligation or not.

Not to be a scholastic about this, say you find out it is. What, if anything, are you going to have to confess?

And perhaps more importantly, what does your bishop have to confess, if for nothing else but allow his faithful to worry themselves over this/

 

[SMHW]

I was planning on going but I would like to know what our diocese says. I went to our website and couldn’t find anything. Now I don’t know if it is a day of obligation or not.

Apparently both the Province of San Francisco (which includes all dioceses in Northern California, Nevada, Utah, and Hawaii) and the Province of Los Angeles (which includes the dioceses of Southern California) do not consider January 1st to be a day of obligation. Someone said that the bishop of the diocese of Las Vegas chose to keep the day as one of obligatory Mass attendance. I haven’t been able to confirm this.

But I think it is fair to conclude that unless you hear that your bishop has specifically decided that January 1st will be a Holy Day of Obligation that you are dispensed from the obligation to attend.

Obviously one does not need an obligation in order to attend Mass so if you were going to go anyways…

 

[anamchara]

Not to be a scholastic about this, say you find out it is. What, if anything, are you going to have to confess?

And perhaps more importantly, what does your bishop have to confess, if for nothing else but allow his faithful to worry themselves over this/

I’m sorry you lost me my friend.

Apparently both the Province of San Francisco (which includes all dioceses in Northern California, Nevada, Utah, and Hawaii) and the Province of Los Angeles (which includes the dioceses of Southern California) do not consider January 1st to be a day of obligation. Someone said that the bishop of the diocese of Las Vegas chose to keep the day as one of obligatory Mass attendance. I haven’t been able to confirm this.

But I think it is fair to conclude that unless you hear that your bishop has specifically decided that January 1st will be a Holy Day of Obligation that you are dispensed from the obligation to attend.

Obviously one does not need an obligation in order to attend Mass so if you were going to go anyways…

I’m from Sacramento, I was just curious and couldn’t find anything on our website. It honestly doesn’t matter, we were going anyway. I just get confused with what each diocese says and why etc…and then couldn’t find anything on mine. I find it interesting why certain ones say no and others say yes.

thanks for answering me

 

[dessert]

Whatever happened to the World Day of Prayer for Peace, which I seem to recall was the title of the January 1 Holy Day of Obligation back in the 80s?

Our priest prayed for this at the end before dismissal prayer and hymn, he mentioned Pope John Paul II.

Our priest said it was a Holy day and I went even though I have a dreadful cold but also because we are only having word and communion this week.

 

[Meximo]

I know this is well after the fact but on Sunday, there was mention that today was a HDO. We, too, only had one mass it was bilingual.

 

[Kathrin]

Ok, here is what it turned out to be.

I am in San Francisco (no, not in switzerland at this time. Ooops, maybe I should change that in my profile for the time being).
I went to the one mass this morning (with carrols, very beautiful. And yes, i thought it would probably be a beautiful mass anyway and that I wanted to go anyway, I didn’t have much else to do… my only concern is that I had been feeling low energy and might not make it up out of bed but hey, my energy level’s back, my cold is better… yeah!!)
Anyway - I talked to that priest that had announced iit to be NOT a holy day of obligation. He said that in the Archdiocese of San Francisco it was indeed not.
The church’s website had stated it wrong then.

Oh, and at mass the priest who did the mass did also talk about this being a world prayer for peace.

Kathrin

 

[Harsalter]

If everyone fulfilled their obligation for today at my church, it would be like trying to get 100 people into a small car, not to mention parking.

Well it is a Holy Day of Obligation in our archdiocese, but I think most priests realize that half of their respective parishes won’t attend because of New Year’s Eve hangovers.

Confession lines will be long this week!

But I think it is fair to conclude that unless you hear that your bishop has specifically decided that January 1st will be a Holy Day of Obligation that you are dispensed from the obligation to attend.

I would tend to error on the safer side and say unless you know for sure it wasn’t, you should have attended. Actually, unless you have a darn good reason not to attend, one should attend every daily Mass that they possibly can.

 

[anamchara]

Anyway - I talked to that priest that had announced iit to be NOT a holy day of obligation. He said that in the Archdiocese of San Francisco it was indeed not.
The church’s website had stated it wrong then.

That’s interesting Kathrin. I guess it must be the same for me then. We are not far from each other. I am still trying to find where it says this though. Our diocese website doesn’t seem to say. I’ll see if I can do a better search.

 

[Kathrin]

Yes a lot of different info huh?

 

[SMHW]

I would tend to error on the safer side and say unless you know for sure it wasn’t, you should have attended. Actually, unless you have a darn good reason not to attend, one should attend every daily Mass that they possibly can.

Just so it’s clear what I said… I was only referring to a particular California resident and to any others who live in the Provinces of San Francisco and Los Angeles (California, Hawaii, Utah, and Nevada) when I said they likely did not have an obligation to attend Mass.

But I agree that it’s always a good thing to attend Mass whenever possible. And I made a point of stating that the lack of an obligation to attend was not a reason to change plans to attend.

 

[margya]

In Sacramento, it is a Holy Day of Obligation.

 

[anamchara]

In Sacramento, it is a Holy Day of Obligation.

Can you tell me where you got this information?

 

[anamchara]

According to the USCCB, unless it falls on a Monday or Saturday it is a day of obligation but then certain diocese can say it’s not?

 

[pnewton]

Whatever happened to the World Day of Prayer for Peace, which I seem to recall was the title of the January 1 Holy Day of Obligation back in the 80s?

Our priest brought that up and we all offered our Mass for world peace. This Sunday our priest made it clear that this is a Holy Day of Obligation. I had to be at all Masses and attendence was disappointing. While I know some had to work, I can’t help but think I need to post the definition of “obligation” on our bulletin board.