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Emly
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Is there a Holy Day of obligation this week? Is there a website with the litergical calender I can look at?
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Pug
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The annunciation that is nine months before Christmas is not a holy day of obligation in the United States, to my knowledge. It is, however, a solemnity. In other words, no, there is no special obligation this week in the US.
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Liberian
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I believe that the Annunciation (March 25) is usually a Holy Day of Obligation, but that since it falls on a Saturday this year it is not a Holy Day of Obligation this year. Next year it will fall on a Sunday, and in 2008 it will be on a Tuesday and might then be a Holy Day of Obligation. Check back in two years.
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StCsDavid
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Don’t get me started on our Bishops who feel that making someone go to mass more than once a week is just too danged hard. (sigh).
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SemperJase
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Well, for most who work for a living it is. Daily masses usually start at 7:30 or 8:00 am in my area, well after most people have started their work day.
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Pug
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Things can vary by diocese, but the standard list is as follows from the code of canon law (Latin rite):
Emly, has your bishop said there is to be a special day for this week? Is that why you ask?
The Annunciation is not on the list. Also, this list is shortened in the United States. So don’t get worried about Peter and Paul, for example. The next one to worry about is the Ascension, but it will probably be transferred to a Sunday, so probably it can be safely not worried about. Almost all places in the US do this.
Emly, has your bishop said there is to be a special day for this week? Is that why you ask?
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StCsDavid
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We take time away from work for doctor’s appointments, kid’s little league, and sometimes even mental health days…where is the hardship in making it a priorty to get to mass a handful of days out of the year for Holy Days of Obligation? Additionally, many parishes have evening services on Holy Days of Obligation. IMHO, it’s just a watering down of the importance of these very special days.
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Joe_Gloor
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This is the handy list that I put on all Holy Days in my calendar at work - unfortunately, I don’t remember where I got it - but it was official.
January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God;
Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the solemnity of the Ascension;
August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary;
November 1, the solemnity of All Saints;
December 8, The solemnity of the Immaculate Conception;
December 25, the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Whenever January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, or August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption, or November 1, the solemnity of All Saints, falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, the precept to attend Mass is abrogated.
January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God;
Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the solemnity of the Ascension;
August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary;
November 1, the solemnity of All Saints;
December 8, The solemnity of the Immaculate Conception;
December 25, the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Whenever January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, or August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption, or November 1, the solemnity of All Saints, falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, the precept to attend Mass is abrogated.
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BlestOne
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AMEN!!!
you know, this is one of my pet peeves. If you are saying that your boss absolutely refuses to let you off or that he threatens to fire you if you go, that is one thing; but to say you can take off or that these other things are more important is quite another. Before any of you jump down my throat, I worked at a place that was very anti-catholic and anti-christian and I know how tough it can be. The way I see it, you can do a couple of things: you can not tell the boss why you have to leave early, an appointment is sufficient, you can dig your heels in and say, “Look, this is important and I need to go” or you can find yourself a new job. That is what I ended up doing and now my boss, his wife, our pilot and our engineer and I go to mass together on Holy Days…what a huge difference! I tell you, there are bosses like mine out there. Pray about it, decide what is important, but don’t say you can’t go without trying. One other point… Holy days at my very small parish have masses at 8am, noon and 7pm so that the vast majority can attend…I am sure bigger parishes are more accomodating than this. What it comes down to is:
HOW IMPORTANT IS YOUR FAITH TO YOU?
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Joe_Gloor
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Fortunately for us all here in the US, you can attend Mass pretty much any day you want to.
It’s a sin if you don’t attend Mass on Sundays or Holy Days of Obligation without good reason.
But if the “precept to attend Mass is abrogated” then it is not a sin if you don’t go to Mass.
That being said, it really has nothing to do with HOW IMPORTANT YOUR FAITH IS TO YOU!
Not being as “Blest” as some I don’t have a problem with it.
It’s a sin if you don’t attend Mass on Sundays or Holy Days of Obligation without good reason.
But if the “precept to attend Mass is abrogated” then it is not a sin if you don’t go to Mass.
That being said, it really has nothing to do with HOW IMPORTANT YOUR FAITH IS TO YOU!
Not being as “Blest” as some I don’t have a problem with it.
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tee_eff_em
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As already noted, the Solemnity of the Annunciation is not a universal holy day of obligation.
The Solemnity of the Annunciation can **never **fall on a Sunday. Sunday 25-March would be, necessarily, a Sunday of Lent or of the Easter Season, either of which take precedence. When 25-March does fall on a Sunday, the Solemnity of the Annunciation is translated to the nearest available day. (Sometimes this can be quite far away, if it must traverse Holy Week and/or the Octave of Easter, but next year it is just a single day, to 26-Mar-2007)
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tee_eff_em
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This is, IMHO, an unfair characterization.
I don’t think the US bishops said to themselves “Going to Mass is too hard, let’s knock out a couple of obligations.” I think they *recognized *that people *were not * fulfilling their obligations, and therefore likely committing grave sin, and said: “Let’s remove the potential for people to sin by removing some obligations.”
(Whether this was the wisest or most noble course is debatable, but to repeat: I don’t think the bishops did this on a whim)
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StCsDavid
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Fair 'nuff. Perhaps it is a little hard on the Bishops. I’m sure they gave it prayerful consideration. It’s more of my own frustration with the watering down of Catholicism in America. I would rather hear the priest from the pulpit remind his flock that missing the Holy Day is a mortal sin than just assuming they’re going to miss it anyway and backdoor their fulfillment. The people that are so lax about missing Holy Days are likely not attending Sunday mass very consistently either. Why lessen the importance of the day for the faithful to accomodate those whose faith is in an earlier stage of conversion? Oh, man…I told you guys not to get me started.
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Emly
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See, I am 16, and my parants will never drive unless there is a Holy day of obligation. I can’t find a thing from my Bishop on the diacees of Columbus site, and I called the office to get some very unhelpful man who said he had no idea…sorry…he was chewing loud…and I am stressed so I am a little bit cranky here.
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tee_eff_em
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If the Diocese of Columbus follows the US calendar, and I know no reason why it should not, there was no holy day of obligation this week. The next non-Sunday holy day of obligation is either Ascension, Thu 25-May (if it is not translated to Sun 28-May) or Assumption of the BVM, Tue 15-Aug.
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