What does a bishop do (for Mass) if he goes on holiday?

[Nelka]

Does he have to take over a parish to say mass?

What if he goes to the Vatican, does he co-con-celebrate with the cardinals?

Thanks.

 

[TheLittleLady]

A priest or bishop may celebrate a private mass, every priest I know has a “travel Mass kit” where they can say Mass anywhere.

 

[Cor_ad_Cor]

He could also simply sit in the pew like anyone else if he’s on vacation or something. He doesn’t have to preside.

co-con-celebrate

It’s just concelebrate. The con and co mean the same thing.

 

[HeDa]

Goes to his monastery if he belongs to a religious order. If it is his turn to celebrate or concelebrate Mass then he does.

 

[thistle]

Does he have to take over a parish to say mass?

What if he goes to the Vatican, does he co-con-celebrate with the cardinals?

Thanks.

He doesn’t have to do anything apart from fulfilling his Sunday obligation by attending Mass like the rest of us.

 

[tafan2]

I was at a parish on a vacation not long ago at a daily mass, there could not have been more than a dozen people there. One of the members of the congregation was an Archbishop on vacation from the Bahamas. The only way we knew was because the priest saying mass was a visiting priest at that parish and the Archbishop was a friend of his so he introduced him at the beginning of the homily. He was wearing his pectoral cross, but was not dressed in clerical attire.