When is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart celebrated?

[PazzoGrande]

When is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart celebrated in the United States?

Is it on Friday 27 June, or is there an accomodation for it to be celebrated on the following Sunday, 29 June?

If one were to make a Novena to the Sacred Heart, is it better to have it culminate on the 27th or on the 29th?

 

[NeedsMercy]

I believe that the Feast of the Sacred Heart is calculated as 19 days after Pentecost; so that would make it the 27th.

 

[PazzoGrande]

I believe that the Feast of the Sacred Heart is calculated as 19 days after Pentecost; so that would make it the 27th.

Sure but don’t they typically move solemnities in the US to the following Sunday? I believe that’s what my diocese does with the Ascension.

 

[Granum_Frumenti]

Sure but don’t they typically move solemnities in the US to the following Sunday? I believe that’s what my diocese does with the Ascension.

Such transfers appear to concern Holy Days of Obligation, not solemnities in general.

A list for the United States in general (as this page notes, Hawaii is an exception) appears in “What Are the Holy Days of Obligation?” (Jimmy Akin). It includes these entries:

Epiphany (this has been permanently translated to the first Sunday after January 1)
Ascension (this is celebrated on different days depending on which ecclesiastical province you live in; a few provinces celebrate it on the traditional date, which is the Thursday of the sixth week of Easter, but most provinces in the U.S. have transferred it to the seventh Sunday of Easter.)
The Body and Blood of Christ (this has been permanently translated to the second Sunday after Pentecost)

Now, I’ve seen multiple sources (including recent parish bulletins, news stories, and liturgical calendars) for the ideas that

(1) a Sacred Heart Parish, say, may celebrate the Sacred Heart on the nearest Sunday, the third Sunday after Pentecost
(2) the calendar used in 1962 allows for the “external solemnity” of the Sacred Heart on the same third Sunday after Pentecost (and parishes using the Extraordinary Form have recently followed this option)

The effects across a diocese, ecclesiastical province, or country aren’t as sweeping as the changes concerning those Holy Days of Obligation.

 

[tee_eff_em]

(1) a Sacred Heart Parish, say, may celebrate the Sacred Heart on the nearest Sunday, the third Sunday after Pentecost

If you have any doubt, one authoritative source is surely the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar:

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.

tee
Liturgical Calendar Nerd

 

[Joe_5859]

Sure but don’t they typically move solemnities in the US to the following Sunday? I believe that’s what my diocese does with the Ascension.

Even if they did do that ordinarily, they wouldn’t be doing it this year because June 29th is the Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul.

The liturgical calendar for this time of year is:

• Pentecost
• Holy Trinity (Sunday following Pentecost)
• Corpus Christi (Sunday following Holy Trinity)
• Sacred Heart (Friday following Corpus Christi)
• Immaculate Heart (Saturday following Corpus Christi [this is an optional memorial, not a solemnity, though])

Ordinarily, the Sunday after Sacred Heart would be a Sunday in Ordinary Time. It just so happens that this year, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul falls on that day.

So – long story short – it’s best to end the novena on the 27th.

 

[PazzoGrande]

Even if they did do that ordinarily, they wouldn’t be doing it this year because June 29th is the Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul.

The liturgical calendar for this time of year is:

• Pentecost
• Holy Trinity (Sunday following Pentecost)
• Corpus Christi (Sunday following Holy Trinity)
• Sacred Heart (Friday following Corpus Christi)
• Immaculate Heart (Saturday following Corpus Christi [this is an optional memorial, not a solemnity, though])

Ordinarily, the Sunday after Sacred Heart would be a Sunday in Ordinary Time. It just so happens that this year, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul falls on that day.

So – long story short – it’s best to end the novena on the 27th.

Thanks for that.

Funny, in a way it looks like Saints Peter and Paul actually trumps Sacred Heart in the calendar this year. Weird little quirk.

 

[Joe_5859]

Thanks for that.

Funny, in a way it looks like Saints Peter and Paul actually trumps Sacred Heart in the calendar this year. Weird little quirk.

It makes me wonder what would happen if Sts. Peter & Paul fell on the third Friday after Pentecost. Which Solemnity would win out? My guess is that Sts. Peter & Paul would as that is a Holy Day of Obligation per Canon Law (with some territories such as the U.S. dispensing the faithful from that obligation). But that’s just a guess… I know there are some rules for figuring all that stuff out, but I don’t know them offhand.

 

[tee_eff_em]

It makes me wonder what would happen if Sts. Peter & Paul fell on the third Friday after Pentecost. Which Solemnity would win out? My guess is that Sts. Peter & Paul would as that is a Holy Day of Obligation per Canon Law (with some territories such as the U.S. dispensing the faithful from that obligation). But that’s just a guess… I know there are some rules for figuring all that stuff out, but I don’t know them offhand.

This [thread=631085]old thread[/thread] relates anecdotally that the Sacred Heart would win:

I have an olld Vatican II Sunday Missal, and I researched the year 1984.

That year, Corpus Christi fell on June 24 (the Birth of St. John the Baptist) and the Sacred Heart fell on June 29 (The Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul). Both Solemnities coinsided with other Solemnities.

What the church did that year was keep Corpus Christi & Sacred Heart on the dates in which they fell (June 24 & June 29 respectively). The Birth of St. John the Baptist was transferred to Mon. June 25; Sts. Peter & Paul was moved to Sunday July 1.

So it would seem to me that the movable solemnities take prescedence over the fixed ones and would remain on the day in which they fall, The fixed ones would be transferred.

So in the year 2022, the Sacred Heart should be celebrated on Friday June 24. The Solemnity of the Birth of John the Baptist could be transferred to Sunday June 26 and celebrated that day if not Saturday June 25.

In any case the Sacred Heart cannot move, I do not think; that feast MUST be celebrated on a Friday.

However, I believe the speculation about the year 2022 is mistaken – I expect :twocents:* that in 2022 the Solemnity of the Birth of John the Baptist will translate to Saturday 25 June. If the story about 1984 is accurate, I would guess SS Peter and Paul translated to Sunday 1 July only for the sake of the (Memorial) of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday 30 June. A Memorial does not ordinarily impede a Solemnity, but I would not be surprised an exception would have been made in this case.

(* With no actual facts to back up my expectation)

tee
I might be wrong about anything/everything I speculate above

 

[tee_eff_em]

Mild correction:

Even if they did do that ordinarily, they wouldn’t be doing it this year because June 29th is the Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul.

The liturgical calendar for this time of year is:

• Pentecost
• Holy Trinity (Sunday following Pentecost)
• Corpus Christi

-](Sunday following Holy Trinity)/-] (Thursday, eleven days after Pentecost; in some places, including the United States, translated to the following Sunday)

• Sacred Heart (Friday

-]following Corpus Christi/-] nineteen days after Pentecost

)

• Immaculate Heart (Saturday following Corpus Christi [this is an optional memorial, not a solemnity, though])

In a place where Corpus Christi is celebrated on Thursday, the *(Friday following Corpus Christi) *would be a week prior to Sacred Heart

tee

 

[Joe_5859]

This [thread=631085]old thread[/thread] relates anecdotally that the Sacred Heart would win:

However, I believe the speculation about the year 2022 is mistaken – I expect :twocents:* that in 2022 the Solemnity of the Birth of John the Baptist will translate to Saturday 25 June. If the story about 1984 is accurate, I would guess SS Peter and Paul translated to Sunday 1 July only for the sake of the (Memorial) of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday 30 June. A Memorial does not ordinarily impede a Solemnity, but I would not be surprised an exception would have been made in this case.

(* With no actual facts to back up my expectation)

tee
I might be wrong about anything/everything I speculate above

That would make sense with regards to movable and fixed solemnities. We’ll have to see what happens in 2022.

Mild correction:

In a place where Corpus Christi is celebrated on Thursday, the *(Friday following Corpus Christi) *would be a week prior to Sacred Heart

tee

Ah, thanks for the correction. I did not realize that Corpus Christi is one of those “transferred” feasts. Learn something new every day!

 

[Granum_Frumenti]

I hadn’t posted this earlier:

If one were to make a Novena to the Sacred Heart, is it better to have it culminate on the 27th or on the 29th?

In a sort of theory, it can be any day, but because you’re probably thinking of a preparatory novena for a reasonably public celebration, since Sacred Heart itself falls on the 27th, the novena should end on or before that date–as others have said.

I’m posting on this subject mainly to mention a variant.

There exists a venerable precedent of ending a “timed” novena on the day before an observance. (For example, the prototypical novena between traditional Ascension and Pentecost exclusive–yes, this novena begins very soon–starts on a Friday and ends on the day, a Saturday, before Pentecost. The Divine Mercy novena also begins on a Friday, Good Friday, and ends on the day before Divine Mercy Sunday.)

As I like to follow that general pattern, I’ll probably begin the novena on Wednesday, June 18, and end on Thursday, June 26.

This precedent isn’t terribly binding, though, and you may end the novena on the 27th if you prefer.

Of course, should anyone utterly forget to begin the novena until it’s “too late,” I’d generally encourage any of you to begin the novena anyway, if saying the novena (even if it’s “late”) is better than not saying it.

Funny, in a way it looks like Saints Peter and Paul actually trumps Sacred Heart in the calendar this year. Weird little quirk.

Others have already mentioned Saints Peter and Paul on June 29, as I was going to mention, but then again I also thought that if not for this occurrence this year, the majority of parishes would have the otherwise-impeded Sunday on the 29th anyway, not the Sacred Heart.

I was going to bring up the apostles’ day, then, mainly to suggest yet another novena.

 

[Fone_Bone_2001]

When is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart celebrated in the United States?

Is it on Friday 27 June, or is there an accomodation for it to be celebrated on the following Sunday, 29 June?

Nope, it’s still on June 27 this year.

June 29 is always occupied by its own solemnity - that of the Princes of the Apostles, Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul takes precedence even over Sundays of Ordinary Time.

Sure but don’t they typically move solemnities in the US to the following Sunday? I believe that’s what my diocese does with the Ascension.

Not with every solemnity, no. Some are moved; some aren’t.

The Epiphany of the Lord, for instance, is moved to a Sunday here in the United States, just like the Ascension (in most U.S. provinces).

But there are plenty of solemnities that are not moved. To take a few examples: the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15) and the Immaculate Conception of Mary (December 8) aren’t moved.

Such transfers appear to concern Holy Days of Obligation, not solemnities in general.

Only on a case-by-case basis. Plenty of holy days of obligation aren’t transferred - the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, All Saints, etc.

It is true that for some of them, the obligation is terminated when they fall on a Saturday or Monday.

It makes me wonder what would happen if Sts. Peter & Paul fell on the third Friday after Pentecost. Which Solemnity would win out? My guess is that Sts. Peter & Paul would as that is a Holy Day of Obligation per Canon Law (with some territories such as the U.S. dispensing the faithful from that obligation). But that’s just a guess… I know there are some rules for figuring all that stuff out, but I don’t know them offhand.

I was wondering that, too. Is there already a standard for that? If not, I’m guessing the bishops would just ask the Holy See to make the call.

My guess is the same as yours - Saints Peter and Paul is a holy day of obligation by default (though not in the United States), so I’ll bet it would take precedence.

Also, it’s a far older and more universally celebrated feast day. Anything having to do with the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a strictly western/Latin devotion.

 

[Chatter163]

On the kalendar of the Extraordinary Form, 1 July is a first-class feast (equivalent to solemnity in the current calendar), the feast of the Most Precious Blood. In 2011, that feast coincided with the feast of the Sacred Heart, also a first-class feast. Both are feasts of Our Lord. Coincidentally, the subject matter of these two feasts is related. Anyway, the Sacred Heart was observed on the calendar that year, and the Precious Blood skipped.