Mass celebration: Lent/Advent optional memorial BVM celebrated?

[ngoyaemjukuu]

The Saturdays of weekdays of Easter season and of Lent as well as Advent can we celebrate optional memorial of Virgin Mary?

 

[John_Lilburne]

The Roman Missal has after the General Instruction a document “Universal Norms for the Liturgical Year and the General Roman Calendar”. It includes:
“15. On Saturdays in Ordinary Time when no Obligatory Memorial occurs, an Optional Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary may be celebrated.”

So it is permitted in Ordinary Time. But not during the other times of the year: Advent, Christmas, Lent, The Paschal Triduum and Easter.

 

[FrDavid96]

The Roman Missal has after the General Instruction a document “Universal Norms for the Liturgical Year and the General Roman Calendar”. It includes:
“15. On Saturdays in Ordinary Time when no Obligatory Memorial occurs, an Optional Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary may be celebrated.”

So it is permitted in Ordinary Time. But not during the other times of the year: Advent, Christmas, Lent, The Paschal Triduum and Easter.

No. That is not correct.

You are quoting one single norm without knowing what the totality of the law says–which happens all too often here on CAF.

 

[FrDavid96]

The Saturdays of weekdays of Easter season and of Lent as well as Advent can we celebrate optional memorial of Virgin Mary?

There is no single answer that applies to all the variations of your question so I’ll address them separately:

Octave of Easter, no.

Other Saturdays of the Easter season, yes.

Lent, yes.

Advent before (but not including) Dec. 16, yes.

Advent Dec. 16 to 24, no.

That answer applies to Masses celebrated with the people, and if the choice is made “for the devotion of the people” which is for the rector of the church or the priest-celebrant to decide. Notitiae 5 (1969): 323–324, n. 2 & Notitiae 5 (1969): 404, n. 17 &al.

 

[FrDavid96]

Advent before (but not including) Dec. 16, yes.

Advent Dec. 16 to 24, no.

Correction

That should say Dec. 17, not 16.

 

[OraLabora]

The General Instructions of the Liturgy of the Hours says:

Memorials of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

1. On Saturdays in Ordinary Time, when optional memorials are permitted, an optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary may be celebrated in the same way as other memorials, with its own proper reading.

It doesn’t seem to give any wiggle room for any time other than Ordinary Time. However, a bit further down one reads:

Option to Choose an Office

244…

1. For a public cause or out of devotion, except on solemnities, the Sundays of the seasons of Advent, Lent, and Easter, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, the octave of Easter, and 2 November, a votive office may be celebrated, in whole or in part: for example, on the occasion of a pilgrimage, a local feast, or the external solemnity of a saint.

Since there is a Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, then it is possible to celebrate a corresponding Votive Office to Our Lady on Saturdays outside of O.T. for the reasons, and within the restrictions, listed in 245.

 

[Evan]

Based on what I see here, for most of us, I would say the allowed days are given in post 2. However if there is some community-based celebration in your parish, it could be allowed.