What leeway does a priest have with regards to celebrating Feasts and Solemnities

[Phemie]

I’ve been wondering that since last month.

I attended Mass on the Feast of the Assumption. There were only a handful of us at Mass. A handful is par for the course for a weekday Mass, add to that that it’s summer and not a Holy Day of Obligation in Canada, and I wasn’t surprised.

I returned to the Sunday Mass on Saturday and Fr. was vested in white. I asked him and he told me that since so few people had attended Mass on the 15th and it was a HDoO he was recelebrating the Mass of the Assumption but we’d stick to the Sunday readings since that’s what the readers had prepared. He was surprised when I told him that it wasn’t a HDoO in Canada (he’s from India).

He did that again the next week when he recelebrated the Queenship of Mary at the Saturday evening Mass but again with the Sunday readings.

 

[Cor_ad_Cor]

I’m curious - did he do likewise on Sunday, or just the Saturday evening Masses?

 

[HeDa]

In the book Ordo published by your diocese, the priest can read which days that can be moved to another day as well as all the Holy Days of Obligation. It is printed in my diocese and also published on the website. If printed there should be a copy in the sacristy as the sacristan needs access to it as well when preparing for Mass and other celebrations.

 

[Phemie]

In the book Ordo published by your diocese, the priest can read which days that can be moved to another day as well as all the Holy Days of Obligation. It is printed in my diocese and also published on the website. If printed there should be a copy in the sacristy as the sacristan needs access to it as well when preparing for Mass and other celebrations.

There is an Ordo in the sacristy. Unlike in the US, in Canada there is one Ordo for the entire country. It includes information for specific dioceses in the footnotes for each day.

This wasn’t a case of moving a feast, rather, it was repeating a feast 2 or 3 days later.