Question - All Saints Not A Holy Day of Obligation this Year

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*This year All Saints Day is not considered holy day of obligation. *
Why was it changed?
Was it only for this year?
What makes not a Holy day of Obligation? Is it because it is to close to Saturday Vigil Mass?
Lastly, last year US Church did not move the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which fell on a Saturday, what would be the difference?

I am asking this question because I am writing a small article on why All Saints is not a Holy Day of Obligation. This article is for youth and young adult leaders. We created a section on our web site explaining Halloween and this question is part of the section. I just need tips, pointers and a bit of resources to write my article cause I seem to be hitting a wall. Even some of my resource books don’t have an explanation. If you can give me just paragraph numbers or something to work with.
Thanks and God bless

Juan Rodriguez “Arthanius”
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It’s on a Saturday, so it gets moved to Sunday (and the Vigil).
 
According to the USCCB website, in the US, if the Solemnity of Mary (Jan 1), the Assumption or All Sainst fall on a Saturday or a Monday, the obligation to attend Mass is dispensed. The feast is still observed on the regular day, Mass is just not obligatory.

The feast of the Assension is different since it can actually be moved to the nearest Sunday.

The rest of the Holy Days of Obligation cannot be moved or the obligation dispensed so that is why the Feast of the Immaculate Conception was still obligatory. Same thing a few years ago when Christmas fell on Saturday.
 
Arthanius said:
*Lastly, last year US Church did not move the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which fell on a Saturday, what would be the difference?*Good question. I have always heard that the Immaculate Conception is never moved in the US because it is the feast of our patroness. I imagine the festivals of other nations’ patron saints get treated the same in those countries. However, I have never seen a cite for this explanation.
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The days of obligation, as well as the powers of the episcopal conferences to alter them, are laid out in Canon Law:
Can. 1246 §1. Sunday, on which by apostolic tradition the paschal mystery is celebrated, must be observed in the universal Church as the primordial holy day of obligation. The following days must also be observed: the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Epiphany, the Ascension, the Body and Blood of Christ, Holy Mary the Mother of God, her Immaculate Conception, her Assumption, Saint Joseph, Saint Peter and Saint Paul the Apostles, and All Saints.
§2. With the prior approval of the Apostolic See, however, the conference of bishops can suppress some of the holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday.
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The USCCB has in fact exercised this power, as explained here: What are the Holy Days of Obligation in the United States?

NB: The Diocese of Honolulu, though a constituent of the USCCB, by indult keeps a calendar more in accord with the Conference of Bishops of the South Pacific (CEPAC). The Solemnities of the Immaculate Conception and the Nativity of Our Lord are the only non-Sunday days of obligation in the state of Hawaii.

NB2: Goofy condition or the Immaculate Conception: The last time 8-Dec fell on a Sunday (necessarily the 2nd Sunday of Advent), this Solemnity was translated to the subsequent Monday, 9-Dec (as appropriate), but the obligation to assist at Mass was not translated. :confused:

tee
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tee_eff_em said:
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While this is true in some countries (cf. Liturgical Calendar notes from the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales), in the US the celebration is not translated. Rather, the obligation to assist at Mass is abrogated.

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tee I think the word you want her is transferred, not translated ;). You are right though about the obligation to assist at Mass.
 
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tee I think the word you want her is transferred, not translated ;).
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Thanks, but I mean *translated *😉

It is an older, and today secondary, definition, but a perfectly good word.
Trivium: And the etymologies of both words lead to exactly the same Latin root!

tee
 
tee_eff_em said:
Thanks, but I mean *translated *😉

It is an older, and today secondary, definition, but a perfectly good word.
Trivium: And the etymologies of both words lead to exactly the same Latin root!

tee
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Thank you. I knew if I said something you would reply and give me a better understanding 😃
 
Well, we are going to have the EF at the Cathedral on Saturday (not the vigil Mass). That will be a good opportunity for a lot of people to learn about the EF. I will encourage the catechism students in my class to go there.
 
Though off topic, I just wanted to say-

Greetings, Arthanius of the Lower East Side, from your neighbor in West Chelsea!

Mrs. Mac
 
Hey Mrs Mac

God bless you, nice to meet another member of Manhattan. God bless
 
Tee

I saw your web site. I am not a cooperator, but I worked under the Society of St. Paul and the Daughters of St Paul. so just want to say hello. God bless
 
Oh, thank the Lord.

I’m going on a show choir retreat over Fall Break,which is the last week of October and Saturday include All Saint’s Day. I wasn’t sure how that was going to work, if I was going ot have to miss the obligation or not, but now I know I don’t need to worry about it. 🙂

Actually, now that I think about it, they would have had an evening Mass on Saturday for the obligation, and we would get back in the afternoon, so it wouldnt’ matter anyway.

Heh.
 
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