Solemnities

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Ordinarily, a solemnity outranks all other feasts (including those which fall on a Sunday). There are three readings, the solemnity (whatever it may be) is referenced in the Collect, Preface, and Divine Office for the day, and both the Gloria and Creed are said/sung at Mass.

Each day during the Octave of Easter is considered a solemnity. Despite this, there are only two readings and the Creed is omitted (although the Gloria is not omitted). It is more like a feast than a solemnity in that regard.

Can anyone explain why this is?
 
I suspect that the post-V2 reformers were cognizant that many people at daily Mass, even during Easter week, would likely be heading to work, and were trying not to prolong the Mass, which already has the sequence *Victimae Paschali *added to it. I’ve never heard any explanation, and in the EF the creed is recited every day during the octave.
 
Your question makes me think - especially because, not only are the days of Holy Week and the Octave of Easter solemnities (okay, so Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday technically aren’t solemnities, but they’re of the same rank as the rest of Holy Week and the Octave of Easter) - they, along with Sundays during Lent/Easter/Advent/Christmas outrank all other solemnities! Seriously - if the Annunciation falls on a Sunday, or during Holy Week or the Octave of Easter, it’s moved!

Here is the ranking for the Ordinary Form:

(1) Sundays during Lent/Easter/Advent- along with Ash Wednesday, Christmas, and every day during Holy Week and the Octave of Easter.

(2) All other solemnities - when a solemnity falls on a day covered by category 1, it is moved to the next date not covered by category 1 (for example, when the Immaculate Conception falls on the Second Sunday of Advent, it is moved to Dec. 9; when the Annunciation falls on a Lenten Sunday, it is moved to Monday - and when it lands during Holy Week or the Octave of Easter, it is moved to the second Monday of Eastertide).

(3) Sundays during Ordinary Time & Christmas (January 1 - Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God - outranks the Sunday after Christmas - Holy Family; Epiphany (in countries that celebrate Epiphany as the Sunday after Jan. 1) outranks the Baptism of the Lord - which is then moved to the next day))

(4) Feasts

(5) Memorials
 
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Your question makes me think - especially because, not only are the days of Holy Week and the Octave of Easter solemnities (okay, so Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday technically aren’t solemnities, but they’re of the same rank as the rest of Holy Week and the Octave of Easter) - they, along with Sundays during Lent/Easter/Advent/Christmas outrank all other solemnities! Seriously - if the Annunciation falls on a Sunday, or during Holy Week or the Octave of Easter, it’s moved!

Here is the ranking for the Ordinary Form:

(1) Sundays during Lent/Easter/Advent- along with Ash Wednesday, Christmas, and every day during Holy Week and the Octave of Easter.

(2) All other solemnities - when a solemnity falls on a day covered by category 1, it is moved to the next date not covered by category 1 (for example, when the Immaculate Conception falls on the Second Sunday of Advent, it is moved to Dec. 9; when the Annunciation falls on a Lenten Sunday, it is moved to Monday - and when it lands during Holy Week or the Octave of Easter, it is moved to the second Monday of Eastertide).

(3) Sundays during Ordinary Time & Christmas (January 1 - Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God - outranks the Sunday after Christmas - Holy Family; Epiphany (in countries that celebrate Epiphany as the Sunday after Jan. 1) outranks the Baptism of the Lord - which is then moved to the next day))

(4) Feasts

(5) Memorials
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That is a nice list. I have one addition for it. I see from two sources (USCCB and CBCEW) that the second category “All other solemnities” also includes** feasts of the Lord** (Presentation of the Lord, Transfiguration of the Lord, Exaltation of the Cross, Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome) – Indeed Sunday, November 9, 2014 was* Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome *
 
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