Why do we not celebrate the same holy days in the U.S.?

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I’m sorry you have to go through that. I know medical personnel are considered very essential, but at the same time you shouldn’t be made to work when you are ill. I hope you can find a better position where the management does not force sick people in to work.
 
We just accept it comes with the territory. It is a love hate relationship as far as nursing goes. But, thank you.
 
MadeAnew said:
I am reading through a book on Catholicism. I am at the part where it explains the different holy days celebrated in other countries. Holy days such as The Epiphany on January 6 , St. Joseph on March 19, Corpus Christi the sunday after Pentecost, and The Solemnity of St. Peter and St. Paul June 29 are recognized and celebrated in Vatican City it says, and in other Countries. Why do we not recognize them and celebrate here in the U.S.? It does not give a reason in the book.
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Holy days come in three ranks. In descending order of seniority they are solemnity, feast and memorial. With respect to solemnities the Church has prescribed ten of them as solemnities of precept, i.e. like Sundays they must be kept as holy days of obligation. The ten are Our Lord’s Nativity (25th December), the Lord’s Epiphany (6th January), Ascension of the Lord (Thursday in Sixth Week of Easter), Corpus Christi (Thursday after Trinity Sunday), Mary Mother of God (1st January), Assumption of BVM (15th August), Immaculate Conception of BVM (8th December), St Joseph (19th March), Ss Peter & Paul (29th June) and All Saints (1st November). The Church allows episcopal (bishops’) conferences to remove the precepts from these days so that they are not holy days of obligation. The Holy See requests that each conference retain Our Lord’s Nativity and one of the three in honour of Our Lady. It also prescribes that regarding Epiphany, Ascension and Corpus Christi they are to be transferred permanently to Sundays in countries where the precept has been removed. The holy day still exists and is observed at Mass and Office but there is no obligation on us to go to Mass is the precept has been removed.

In England and Wales we have kept the Lord’s Nativity, Epiphany, Ascension; Our Lady’s Assumption; Ss Peter & Paul and All Saints. Corpus Christi here is now always on the Sunday after Trinity Sunday. For us, Mary Mother of God, Immaculate Conception and St Joseph are not holy days of obligation.

Episcopal conferences can also bring in other rules around these holy days. In England and Wales if the Epiphany, Assumption, Ss Peter & Paul or All Saints fall on a Monday or Saturday they’re to be transferred to the Sunday so there isn’t two holy days of obligation in a row.

I hope this answers your question.
 
Oh hadn’t realised that these Holy Days are not observed in America. They are in my country/parish. Having said that some are not statutory holidays like Christmas and Easter. I normally get time off work .

The priest blesses and chalk my home during Epiphany.
 
OddBird said:
That’s also true of my particular Swiss state. Catholic processions are still illegal since Reformation, because they’re, well, Catholic.
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It’s the 21st century and some cantons in Switzerland of all places still ban Catholic processions?!?
 
Do you have vacation days? That’s what I always use to take Holy Days of Obligation and Fast Days of Obligation off.
 
Epiphany is transferred to the Sunday after the Christmas Octave and Corpus Christi to the following Sunday.
 
That’s what I do with my vacation days - which reminds me: I have to make up my list for next year! Thank you - You’re a God-send!
 
Sorry didn’t make myself clear. I attend TLM, so in the Southern Hemisphere Epiphany this year if I remember rightly was on the Monday.
 
Well, I have prayed for his soul because we’re supposed to love our enemies, so I hope God forgave him his bigotry.

I often wondered how much of his blather was just done to get attention.
 
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OddBird said:
That’s also true of my particular Swiss state. Catholic processions are still illegal since Reformation, because they’re, well, Catholic.
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Is this enforced or is it one of those old laws that technically never got repealed but that nobody pays attention to?
 
Margaret_Ann said:
It’s the 21st century and some cantons in Switzerland of all places still ban Catholic processions?!?
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Yeah. 🤦‍♀️
TK421 said:
Is this enforced or is it one of those old laws that technically never got repealed but that nobody pays attention to?
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It is enforced. One single village in the whole canton is authorized to hold processions because it’s always been mainly Catholic, even throughout Reformation.

I think the authorities have no interest in repelling it because it’s a good pretext to ban expressions of religious belief from public space.
 
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