Why isn't Nativity of Mary on the calendar this year?

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Does anyone know why the Nativity of Mary, September 8, is not on the liturgical calendar this year? It is not on my printed wall calendar, and I did a quick internet search of the liturgical year for 2013 and did not find it there either. Is it because it falls on a Sunday this year? Just wondering…
 
tile_nipper said:
Does anyone know why the Nativity of Mary, September 8, is not on the liturgical calendar this year? It is not on my printed wall calendar, and I did a quick internet search of the liturgical year for 2013 and did not find it there either. Is it because it falls on a Sunday this year? Just wondering…
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yes Sunday’s in Ordinary time take precedence over feast days in the liturgical calendar. There are very few days that take precedence of sunday solemnities.
 
Yes, looking at my calendar I see that this Sunday we’ll celebrate the 16th Sunday after Pentacost instead. But tomorrow is a First Saturday, so you could honor Our Lady by going to Mass then, too.
 
I have both the Nativity of Mary and the 16th Sunday listed on my TLM calendar. I’ll post tomorrow and let you know which one we celebrate.
 
corsair said:
I have both the Nativity of Mary and the 16th Sunday listed on my TLM calendar. I’ll post tomorrow and let you know which one we celebrate.
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I’m not sure about this, but I **think **that, since the XVI Sunday is 2nd Class (sometimes called a “minor Sunday”), and the universal feast of the Nativity of the BVM is also 2nd class, that the feast is commemorated. That’s what was done today where I am, and would also explain the entry on your calendar. If it were a non-universal 2nd class feast, I think the commemoration would have been omitted. **Fr David? **
 
We had the 16th Sunday after Pentecost with the commemoration of Our Lady’s Nativity. Happy Birthday Blessed Mother.
 
We had the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary time today at my church.

However there is a feast coming this week that does replace an Sun. in Ordinary time (when it falls on a Sunday). That feast is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Sept. 14). I checked next year’s calendar and Sept. 14 is celebrated as the Exaltation replacing the
24th Sunday in Ordinary time.

I also found there are several feasts which always take precedence over a Sunday in Ordinary Time. They Are:
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   The Presentation of the Lord  (Feb. 2)

   St. Joseph, Spouse of the BVM  (March 19)

   The Annunciation of the Lord  (March 25)

   The Nativity of St. John the Baptist  (June 24)

   Sts. Peter & Paul, Apostles  (June 29)

   The Transfiguration of the Lord  (Aug. 6)

   The Exaltation of the Holy Cross  (Sept. 14)

   All Souls Day (Nov. 2)

   Dedication of the Laterin Basilica (Nov. 9)

   Also, any Holyday of Obligation that falls on a Sunday in Ordinary Time.   

   Hope this helps, thanks!!
 
raalongi said:
I also found there are several feasts which always take precedence over a Sunday in Ordinary Time. They Are:

St. Joseph, Spouse of the BVM (March 19)

The Annunciation of the Lord (March 25)
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The above two feasts can never replace a Sunday in Ordinary Time because they do not fall in Ordinary Time. St. Joseph always falls in Lent and the Annunciation usually falls in Lent, or else it falls during the Easter Octave.

The rule in the OF is that the Sundays of Advent, Lent and Easter can never be superseded by any feast at ll. During Ordinary Time Sundays may be superseded by any solemnity, or a feast of Our Lord. That is why Holy Cross will be observed on a Sunday next year.

The rule in the EF is that Sundays of Advent supersede all feasts except the Immaculate Conception; the Sundays of Lent supersede all feasts, and all other Sundays (Sundays in Easter season included) are superseded only by first-class feasts (same as solemnities in the EF). If the first-class feast is one of Our Lord, it will completely supersede the Sunday Mass, and there is no commemoration made of the Sunday, since the feast is already of Our Lord. If it is a feast of Our Lady or another, the feast supersedes the Sunday, but a commemoration of the Sunday is still made.

Second-class feasts never supersede any Sunday, nor is any notice taken of them by commemoration. Thus, anyone who commemorated the Nativity of the BVM today was in error This confusion arises when a priest uses a missal that is pre-1960, as there were many more commemorations of second-class feasts and other occasions made in earlier editions. But reforms of the calendar in 1955 and especially 1960 significantly cut down commemorations to a minimum by instating the above schema.

If the Nativity of Our Lady or any second- or third-class feast is the patron of the parish or diocese, then that feast is a first-class one in those locations only, and it could be celebrated according to the above schema.
 
Went to a Roman-Maronite parish this morning to experience the Divine Liturgy. We celebrated the Exultation of the Holy Cross as well as the Nativity of Mary. 🙂
 
At our parish, the words “Ordinary time” do not exist. We celebrate the EF exclusively.

So today we celebrated the 16th Sunday After Pentecost. The Rosary was dedicated to the Nativity of the BVM.

Next Sunday will be similar, except its the 17th Sunday After Pentecost with the Commemoration of the Seven Sorrows of Mary.
 
janeway529 said:
Went to a Roman-Maronite parish this morning to experience the Divine Liturgy. We celebrated the Exultation of the Holy Cross as well as the Nativity of Mary. 🙂
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The Exaltation of the Holy Cross is actually on the 14th. What was done was a “transfer” and one that, I personally, consider to be totally absurd. If it absolutely had to be “transferred” (to accommodate the cell-phone generation, I guess, but I digress) at all, it should have been to the nearest Sunday, not the previous one. 🤷
 
malphono said:
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross is actually on the 14th. What was done was a “transfer” and one that, I personally, consider to be totally absurd. If it absolutely had to be “transferred” (to accommodate the cell-phone generation, I guess, but I digress) at all, it should have been to the nearest Sunday, not the previous one. 🤷
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It’s one of them Roman-Maronite things.
 
tile_nipper said:
Does anyone know why the Nativity of Mary, September 8, is not on the liturgical calendar this year? It is not on my printed wall calendar, and I did a quick internet search of the liturgical year for 2013 and did not find it there either. Is it because it falls on a Sunday this year? Just wondering…
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Aside from it being on a sunday, within the Roman Church, sundays take precedence over that class of feast. The ones it doesn’t are few.

The Ruthenian Catholics observed it Tone 7 Resurrection Propers and the Nativity of Mary Festal Propers in Tone 4.
 
raalongi said:
I also found there are several feasts which always take precedence over a Sunday in Ordinary Time. They Are:
Code: 
   The Presentation of the Lord  (Feb. 2)

   St. Joseph, Spouse of the BVM  (March 19)

   The Annunciation of the Lord  (March 25)

   The Nativity of St. John the Baptist  (June 24)

   Sts. Peter & Paul, Apostles  (June 29)

   The Transfiguration of the Lord  (Aug. 6)

   The Exaltation of the Holy Cross  (Sept. 14)

   All Souls Day (Nov. 2)

   Dedication of the Laterin Basilica (Nov. 9)

   Also, any Holyday of Obligation that falls on a Sunday in Ordinary Time.   

   Hope this helps, thanks!!
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The Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Aug 15) take precedence over a Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
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