Question for those involved with a minor Basilica

[BasilicaTim]

Greetings! First time to post, but a longtime viewer of this board.

I’m involved in planning liturgy for my parish, which also happens to be a minor basilica. The issue has to do with the fact that we’re required, by canon law, to celebrate various feast days related to the Petrine primacy, the first of which is the Feast of the Chair of Peter, which falls on February 22, which also happens to be ASH WEDNESDAY.

Question: does the feast day move to the following day…or previous day? Or is it skipped this year (which doesn’t sound right, but I figured I ask anyway)?

Thanks a bunch in advance.

 

[MarkThompson]

Your question is answered by referring to the Generals Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar. According to the table of precedence near the bottom, Ash Wednesday always takes precedence over any other celebration that could occur on the same day. Then the rule (no. 60) is that “a solemnity impeded by a liturgical day that takes precedence over it should be transferred . . . . Other celebrations are omitted that year.” On the General Roman Calendar, the Chair of St. Peter is a feast, not a solemnity, and therefore it is omitted. In the conceivable event that basilicas have special rules or a special ordo that would elevate this feast to the status of a solemnity for local purposes, then it would be transferred “to the closest day not listed in nos. 1-8 in the table of precedence.”

 

[PacoG]

Why don’t you call the other minor basilicas. There are a lot of them in the United States.

 

[salusanimarum17]

Your question is answered by referring to the Generals Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar. … On the General Roman Calendar, the Chair of St. Peter is a feast, not a solemnity, and therefore it is omitted. In the conceivable event that basilicas have special rules or a special ordo that would elevate this feast to the status of a solemnity for local purposes, then it would be transferred “to the closest day not listed in nos. 1-8 in the table of precedence.”

Right. If it is considered a solemnity, it can be moved to Tuesday or Thursday without any intervention from some church authority. I think, by the way, that the Pope is celebrating the Chair of Peter this Sunday (the 19th), along with the creation of the new cardinals.

 

[MarkThompson]

Right. If it is considered a solemnity, it can be moved to Tuesday or Thursday without any intervention from some church authority. I think, by the way, that the Pope is celebrating the Chair of Peter this Sunday (the 19th), along with the creation of the new cardinals.

Yes, but the Chair of Peter ranks as a solemnity within Vatican City. By moving the observance all the way to Sunday instead of just Tuesday or Thursday, the Holy See appears to be taking advantage of paragraph 58 of the General Norms:
For the pastoral advantage of the people, it is permissible to observe on the Sundays in Ordinary Time those celebrations that fall during the week and have special appeal to the devotion of the faithful, provided the celebrations take precedence over these Sundays in the Table of Liturgical Days.
Incidentally, it is not possible for the OP’s basilica to do the same, because Sundays in Ordinary Time rank above feasts of saints and patronal feasts.