No Mass on Good Friday?

[Morning_Star15]

I’ve never been to a Good Friday service, but plan to go tomorrow. I’ve read what will occur, but am curious to know if it will be long, as I do have to work in the afternoon and don’t want to have to leave abruptly. The service is at 12:30 and I work at 4:00.

And for a second silly question - I plan to attend the Easter Vigil on Saturday evening. Does this fulfill the Easter Sunday obligation - or would I need to go to mass on Easter morning?

Yes, the Easter Vigil Mass fulfills your requirement for Easter Sunday (just like any Saturday evening vigil Mass fulfills a Sunday Mass obligation). However, they use different readings on Easter Sunday than during the Vigil, so some people choose to go to Easter Sunday Mass anyway, even if they’ve already gone to the Easter Vigil.

 

[meeshy]

Beyrak, I agree with you completely and applaud your honesty.

A few years ago I was struggling with a particular sin, went to confession Wednesday of Holy Week and had to beg for another confession in the morning on Holy Saturday. I was really lucky the priest agreed to hear me.

Like you say, it could happen to any of us, especially me.

Kleary, I want to visit your parish. It sounds fantastic, and the website is great.

Peace,
Meeshy

 

[Rabbititus]

Yes, the Easter Vigil Mass fulfills your requirement for Easter Sunday (just like any Saturday evening vigil Mass fulfills a Sunday Mass obligation). However, they use different readings on Easter Sunday than during the Vigil, so some people choose to go to Easter Sunday Mass anyway, even if they’ve already gone to the Easter Vigil.

Thanks! I had thought this was so, but then someone had thrown doubt into my mind, so I just had to ask to be on the safe side.

 

[wjp984]

What if Good Friday happens to be March 25. Will there be a mass then or will they just forget about the feast of the Annunciation? I don’t remember what they did the last time this event occurred but it does happen rarely.

 

[LilyM]

What if Good Friday happens to be March 25. Will there be a mass then or will they just forget about the feast of the Annunciation? I don’t remember what they did the last time this event occurred but it does happen rarely.

They’ll move the feast to the Monday, as they’ve already done this year for both the feast of the Baptism (when it fell on a Sunday and clashed with the Epiphany) and the Annunciation (when it also fell on a Sunday)

There are more than enough days in the year, and these feasts are all important enough to have earned their own days

 

[BillyT92679]

What if Good Friday happens to be March 25. Will there be a mass then or will they just forget about the feast of the Annunciation? I don’t remember what they did the last time this event occurred but it does happen rarely.

It happened last year as a matter of fact. The Solemnity was transferred to April 4, the first day after the Second Sunday of Easter. All of the days of Easter Week are Solemnities of Easter, so Annunciation could not replace those days.

 

[lak611]

What you say is true.

But somehow it doesn’t seem to be too meaningful to distribute Communion outside Mass except for those who can’t attend. I wonder what the reasoning is behind that.

I have a 1962 Missal. They had Communion at the Good Friday service back then. It says, “The fourth part, the Communion of Priest and people, completes what used to be known as the Mass of the Presanctified. Today’s liturgy clearly does not constitute a Mass, for there is no Consecration; all who communicate receive sacred particles consecrated at the Mass of the previous day. This form of ‘Mass’ is familiar in the Greek rite.”

 

[fin]

can one adore the Eucharist during Good Friday? because it is kept in another place?

 

[lak611]

can one adore the Eucharist during Good Friday? because it is kept in another place?

Adoration is supposed to end at midnight on Good Friday. IOW, from the end of Maundy Thursday Mass until midnight is adoration, then it is over.