Lent and the Annunciation

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Tommorow is the Solemnity of the Annunciation. We will have a Mass at 7:30 am tomorrow in our school before the family day celebration.

As we all know, Solemnities take precedence over Lenten Weekdays, yet the celebrant opts to use the Mass for Saturday of the Third Week of Lent. He said that the Lenten Mass will be used so that the Mass will be finished early to make way for the program. He also said that our Lord should take precedence before Mary, so the Lenten Mass will be used. Should I pursue him to use the Propers and Mass for Annunciation? Or should I follow the celebrant’s discretion?
 
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Tommorow is the Solemnity of the Annunciation. We will have a Mass at 7:30 am tomorrow in our school before the family day celebration.

As we all know, Solemnities take precedence over Lenten Weekdays, yet the celebrant opts to use the Mass for Saturday of the Third Week of Lent. He said that the Lenten Mass will be used so that the Mass will be finished early to make way for the program. He also said that our Lord should take precedence before Mary, so the Lenten Mass will be used. Should I pursue him to use the Propers and Mass for Annunciation? Or should I follow the celebrant’s discretion?
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What does his diocesan Ordo say? (Hint: it will not agree with his bad liturgiology).

The Annunciation is not only a Marian feast, it is the feast of the Incarnation of our Lord.

At any rate, he is supposed to be following the approved liturgical books which clearly spell out the precedence of feasts in term of which Mass and Office are celebrated on a given day.
 
These questions and answers remind me of Halachic responsa (Jewish Religious questions and answers). Interesting, though I don’t know the answers.
G-D Bless,
Shabbat Shalom,
 
Last year they moved the Annunciation to a date because it fell in Holy Week.
I remember very well, because it’s also my birthday.
My pastor didn’t even acknowledge my birthday until way afterward…giving me a card on the alternate date.

Don’t worry about it.
It’s Mass. Go.
 
Dear PianistClare,
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  Thank you. My friends from Malta are in Nazareth for your Feast, but I'm in Jerusalem celebrating the Holy Sabbath (Shabbat) or I will as soon as I get off my computer! :blush:
G-D Bless you on your Feast, and Have a Joyous Easter in 3 weeks.
We will be celebrating Passover, G-D Willing.
Joey
 
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Last year they moved the Annunciation to a date because it fell in Holy Week.
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Yes, moving it when it falls on specific days is part of the liturgical norms-- Sundays of Lent and the all weekdays of Holy Week outrank it. When and where it moves is also spelled out in the Church’s documents.

But that isn’t relevant to the fact that THIS year, the Annunciation is celebrated on March 25. It is a solemnity.
 
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Tommorow is the Solemnity of the Annunciation. We will have a Mass at 7:30 am tomorrow in our school before the family day celebration.

As we all know, Solemnities take precedence over Lenten Weekdays, yet the celebrant opts to use the Mass for Saturday of the Third Week of Lent. He said that the Lenten Mass will be used so that the Mass will be finished early to make way for the program. He also said that our Lord should take precedence before Mary, so the Lenten Mass will be used. Should I pursue him to use the Propers and Mass for Annunciation? Or should I follow the celebrant’s discretion?
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The priest is not free to make this decision on his own authority.
 
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The priest is not free to make this decision on his own authority.
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To the OP, Father Mosher is correct, however - why is it your place to correct him when he obviously knows better? I say obviously because he consciously chose to do this to “shorten” the liturgy (which I argue, he’s really not; it can’t make more than 5-7 minutes difference).
 
I don’t get it . The Annunciation is not “about Mary” Of course she is part of it. She said yes and we celebrate the conception when God became man. We believe life begins at conception. So we celebrate the Incarnation today too (Or did before evening)
 
The priest’s comments, if that is indeed what he said, make no sense to me at all. For one, as already noted, he doesn’t have the authority to simply suppress a Solemnity on the Church’s calendar! The Annunciation is a very important feast in the life of the Church. Its celebration is obligatory on March 25 (unless transferred in those rare cases where the Sunday of Lent etc. takes precedence). Secondly, it is a feast of the Lord. Yes, it is a feast of Our Lady, but it is most importantly a feast of the Lord’s incarnation! How is an ordinary Saturday Lenten Mass more “Christocentric” than the mystery of the incarnation?
 
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