Old Calendar and New Calendar?

[Dempsey1919]

Can someone please explain the differences between the old calendar and the new calendar? I would also appreciate some background information on why the calendar was changed.

**I attend the Tridentine Mass and I don’t know which calendar I should follow. ** I’m very confused about Holy Days of Obligation; I know when they are on the new calendar but I don’t know about the old. One of my priests has said that he will be saying the Tridentine Mass on all Holy Days of Obligation according to the old calendar.

Can someone provide any information about the calendars because I know nothing about them.

Thanks

 

[Malcolm_McLean]

Can someone please explain the differences between the old calendar and the new calendar? I would also appreciate some background information on why the calendar was changed.

**I attend the Tridentine Mass and I don’t know which calendar I should follow. ** I’m very confused about Holy Days of Obligation; I know when they are on the new calendar but I don’t know about the old. One of my priests has said that he will be saying the Tridentine Mass on all Holy Days of Obligation according to the old calendar.

Can someone provide any information about the calendars because I know nothing about them.

Thanks

Really it is a Holy Feast of obligation, not a Holy Day of obligation. If the feast is transferred to Sunday in the new rite and not in the old, as sometimes happens, you can fulfil the obligation by attending the NO Mass on Sunday, or Tridentine Mass on the traditional day and, of course, Tridentine Mass on Sunday. But you can’t attend only the Tridentine Mass on Sunday.

 

[tee_eff_em]

Really it is a Holy Feast of obligation, not a Holy Day of obligation. If the feast is transferred to Sunday in the new rite and not in the old, as sometimes happens, you can fulfil the obligation by attending the NO Mass on Sunday, or Tridentine Mass on the traditional day and, of course, Tridentine Mass on Sunday. But you can’t attend only the Tridentine Mass on Sunday.

I am not sure that is correct. Canon Law speaks of holy days of obligation, not holy *feasts *of obligation. Likewise, though the Missal of Bl John XXIII is to be celebrated according to its own calendar (ie wrt feast days), the days of obligation are set in Canon Law and alterable by the episcopal conference.

If the episcopal conference has transferred the obligation to Sunday, I am *not *sure that obligation is fulfilled by attending an extraordinary form liturgy on the day of the old calendar. Similarly, Canon Law seems to state that in such a case, the obligation *is *fulfilled by attending an extraordinary form liturgy on the Sunday. (Can. 1248 §1. A person who assists at a Mass celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the feast day itself or in the evening of the preceding day satisfies the obligation of participating in the Mass.)

But, as in all things: IANACL – I Am Not A Canon Lawyer.

tee

 

[AJV]

Can someone please explain the differences between the old calendar and the new calendar? I would also appreciate some background information on why the calendar was changed.

**I attend the Tridentine Mass and I don’t know which calendar I should follow. ** I’m very confused about Holy Days of Obligation; I know when they are on the new calendar but I don’t know about the old. One of my priests has said that he will be saying the Tridentine Mass on all Holy Days of Obligation according to the old calendar.

Can someone provide any information about the calendars because I know nothing about them.

Thanks

As to the reasons for the change in the calendar some of the information in this thread may be of help.

Holy Days of Obligation are not “written into” the calendar, so to speak but are usually determined by Canon law. The rule for the universal Church was then further modified according to the requests of the bishops of a certain country. For example, St. Pius X removed a number of HDoO but the bishops of the USA at the time requested for fewer HDoO (reduced to 6)and were granted it- the bishops of Canada also requested for the same but were given a different plan by the Holy See.

So strictly speaking, if you want the HDoO, you should go by the current Canon law.

But for the USA the HDoO have remained the same:
Jan 1
Ascension
Assumption
All Saints
Immaculate Conception
Nativity of the Lord

except that now, if the italicized ones fall on a Saturday or Monday, then the precept of attending Mass is abolished.

 

[AJV]

Whoops Dempsey, just saw that you were in the UK. Are you in E& W or Scotland? The HDoO have changed there. Before [pre '70 approx.]they were (E&W):

Jan 1
Epiphany
Ascension
Corpus Christi
Ss. Peter and Paul
Assumption
All Saints
Nativity of the Lord

And until just recently they were:
Epiphany
Ascension
Corpus Christi
Ss. Peter and Paul
Assumption
All Saints
Nativity of the Lord

And now [since last year] they are:
Ss. Peter and Paul
Assumption
All Saints
Nativity of the Lord

since the others have been moved to the nearest Sunday.