MERGED: Does Attending the Easter Vigil Mass Count for Easter Mass on Sunday?

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otjm said:
Can you quote or site some sorce to support your comment that the Mass on Holy Thursday does not end, but continues through the Vigil Mass?
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the entire triduum, from the Mass of the Lord’s supper, commemoration of the Lord’s Passion, and Easter Vigil are one liturgical celebration with “intermissions” as it were for prayer, silence and reflection, as well as seeing to ordinary daily needs of life. that is why Mass on Holy Thursday does not end with a final blessing etc.
 
IceKream16 said:
This might be a stupid question, but I’m getting all three sacraments of initiation tomorrow at the vigil and I am incredibly excited, and I know this fulfills my Sunday obligation, but am I allowed to go to Sunday morning mass as well? I have never been and would really like to have this experience as well. Would I be able to go and have my second Eucharist? Or is that not allowed?
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yes of course it is allowed, anyone can attend any Mass they wish. You are not obligated but certainly can attend, moreover you can also receive communion on Sunday as well as at the Vigil.

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Thank you all very much, you were all very helpful! I am very excited 🙂
 
Welcome home!

I am in the same situation as yourself - I am receiving all three sacrements of initiation tomorrow too! 😃 Congratulations!

I wanted to know if I could also go to the Mass on the Sunday too - it would feel weird not to go, and I can’t wait to receive communion so it will be amazing to be able to receive it twice within the first 24hours of being a Catholic! 😃

Good luck for tomorrow!
 
Haha, that’s exactly what I though! I plan on going to mass every day this coming week, haha, I want Jesus that much 🙂 Yay!
 
Congratulations to IceKream, LemonandLime and all the other candidates and catechumens!
 
CatholicZ09 said:
You are allowed to go to as many Masses as you wish. The only restriction is how many times you can receive the Blessed Sacrament. You can only receive it twice during one day. The second time; however, you MUST be attending a Mass (two communion services are not allowed). So, if you received it once on Saturday and once on Sunday, you’re fine. So, if you receive on Saturday twice, then you’ve reached your limit. Your first time receiving can be a communion service, a Mass, etc., but your second time must be received with your participation in a Mass.
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Just to clarify, yes that’s the limit for Saturday. With respect to the Canon regarding the number of times you can receive the Eucharist, Sunday is a separate day from Saturday; the “day” is the normal midnight-midnight day. That’s what I’ve always heard people say.

To the OP: yes, it’s a great idea.
 
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Hi: This is my first post so please bear with me. I have a Vatican II Sunday/Holy Day Mass book - 1975 to 1999. I prefer the language in it to a newer version so I keep using it. I just noticed at the East Vigil Mass that it specifically says that the Vigil Mass on Saturday, which must begin no earlier that dusk, does not fulfil the Easter Sunday “obligation”. (Not going that way people! 🙂 ). It says after the vigil Mass, a second Mass may be said for Easter Sunday. I have not seen that anywhere else in the Mass book so it really surprised me. I asked our priest after Mass and he said it DOES count. So my question is this: if it does count for Sunday, when did the Church make that change?
 
Maeby(name removed by moderator):
So my question is this: if it does count for Sunday, when did the Church make that change?
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I am rather surprised by this, and I question whether your book was correct. If it was correct in 1975, the change probably did not occur until 1983 with the promulgation of the current Code of Canon Law.
 
It’s similar situation to Christmas, it seems to me. Different readings for the various Masses (Midnight, Dawn, During the Day IIRC) but going to Midnight Mass at Christmas fulfils the oligation.
 
I KNOW that our pastor told us that the Vigil Mass, however wonderful it might be, does NOT fulfill the Sunday obligation!!

Does it DEFINITELY fulfill the Sunday obligation? I have wanted to attend for a few years now, but in our church the Pastor is very proud that the ceremony goes on until the wee hours of the morning, and getting up to go to Mass again the next day seems way too difficult. If I can skip Easter Mass and put all my effort into the vigil, that would be cool.
 
puzzleannie said:
the entire triduum, from the Mass of the Lord’s supper, commemoration of the Lord’s Passion, and Easter Vigil are one liturgical celebration with “intermissions” as it were for prayer, silence and reflection, as well as seeing to ordinary daily needs of life. that is why Mass on Holy Thursday does not end with a final blessing etc.
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Ah. Thank you.
 
paperwight66 said:
It’s similar situation to Christmas, it seems to me. Different readings for the various Masses (Midnight, Dawn, During the Day IIRC) but going to Midnight Mass at Christmas fulfils the oligation.
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However, Midnight Mass (if it is truly midnight, and not an 8:00 pm "midnight Mass - what an oxymoron) is not, I believe, a Vigil Mass.
 
Glad I was able to find out on here about Easter Vigil counting for Easter mass!
 
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