St Patrick’s Day tomorrow

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Sundays in Lent take precedent over all other days… so obviously tomorrow is the Second Sunday of Lent, not the feast of St Patrick. That said, what do parishes under his patronage do? Is it moved to the next day?
 
GospelOfMatthew said:
Why can’t it be his feast and a Sunday in lent?
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Because the current Church rubrics place Sundays in Advent and Sundays in Lent as higher ranking than other feasts.

St. Patrick’s Day is an optional memorial, except in certain places where he is the patron such as Ireland where typically St. Patrick’s is a holy day of obligation and a solemnity. However the second Sunday of Lent outranks that feast.

That’s the way it is, because that’s the way the church says it is. The church can change that, but currently that is the ranking structure for feasts.
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It’s the same thing as some days having more than one St.’s feast celebrated
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But on those days only one is celebrated liturgically.

In the case of optional memorials, the priest can choose. In other cases, the Church has designated the liturgical celebration.
 
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My sister parish is a St. Patrick’s. I’ll have to ask my pastor what his plans are.
 
We were told at Vigil mass tonight (I forget the exact terminology he used) that Monday could be substituted.
 
Have Barbeques after Mass, and sing the Song of St. Patrick in Mass, and all wear green.

We still celebrate this day. The second Sunday in Lent takes Precedence, we have a great lunch!
 
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At least, being on Sunday this year, we can dodge the usual “Is it right for a bishop to dispense from Friday abstinence” discussion.
 
I have a live wallpaper on my phone which shows an animated forest- the weather changes based on what it’s doing where I’m at, the trees are blown by the wind, etc. Just at midnight, when I turned on my phone, I noticed a glow. I moved some of my icons around and found it had changed to include a rainbow with one of its ends in the forest, and what I can only assume is a pot of gold casting a gold glow near it.

I thought that was pretty cool. Happy St. Patrick’s day.
 
It’s not moved. They will have the Sunday readings but may mention St Patrick during the homily or have some hymn devoted to him, especially if the church has a large Irish-American contingent. Of course im sure some churches without Irish-American parishioners will simply ignore the whole thing.

I’m going to a church named after him today and their whole bulletin has a giant St Patrick picture and Happy St Patricks Day for this day.

I was a bit weirded out that a local church named St Joseph has moved his feast day to Saturday, March 23 rather than Tuesday, March 19 when it’s supposed to be.
 
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I always like when the bishops dispense for St. Patrick’s Day on Friday, because my parents had their first real date on such a day back in 1961. They went out for steaks. They were married within a few months.
 
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It is a question of where you are.

In the universal calendar St. Patrick is an optional memorial so significantly outranked by a Lenten Sunday. Optional memorials cannot be transferred so this year St Patrick is not celebrated.

Here, in England, he has the rank of feast. So, he still gets out ranked by a Lenten Sunday and cannot be transferred.

In Ireland things are different. In Ireland St. Patrick’s Day has the rank of solemnity. Normally, a solemnity is out ranked by a Lenten Sunday but a solemnity can be transferred. However, Ireland have an indult that allows them to celebrate the solemnity of St. Patrick even today, the Second Sunday in Lent.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I was a bit weirded out that a local church named St Joseph has moved his feast day to Saturday, March 23 rather than Tuesday, March 19 when it’s supposed to be.
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Well, the pastor can’t actually do that on his own accord. Certainly not without some kind of permission from a higher authority. Since we don’t know, we assume said permission was obtained.

If it fell during Ordinary Time, the feast could be transfered to Sunday by the pastor. But not Saturday. The liturgical norms state:
  1. 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. The Mass for such celebrations may be used at all the Masses at which a congregation is present.
Since Sunday is a Sunday of Lent, perhaps the pastor got permission to transfer the feast celebration to Saturday where more parishioners could attend. Especially if they do a St Joseph’s Table.
 
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I will assume he got permission. However, I will seek out a parish named for St Joseph that is having the Mass on his actual day to attend myself. I have never seen a church in USA move it off the actual day before, especially since it is not an HDO here.
 
I wish it was a HDO in Canada, as he is our national patron… but it’s not. Yet from what I recall Mass attendance tends to be very good on his feast.
 
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