Sunday is the day on which the paschal mystery is celebrated and is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church. Holy Days of Obligation are our most important feast days. They are the principal liturgical feasts that honor the mysteries of the Lord, the V...
The First and the Eighth (2174) A New Hope - a New Day (2175-2176) Six Holy Days of Obligation (2177) The Weekly Parish Gathering (2178-2179) A Grave Obligation (2180-2182) When No Priest (2183)Grace and RestSunday Priorities (2184) A Common Effort Needed (2187-2188)...
Assistance at Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation, annual confession, Easter communion, the reception of the Viaticum (q.v.) and the last services of religion, the celebration of marriage in the prescribed form, the baptism and religious instruction of children, and, finally, the ...
Rule VI. If the circumstance calls for it as necessary, We grant to the local Ordinaries the right to permit the celebration of Mass in the evening, as we said, but in such wise that the Mass shall not begin before four o’clock in the afternoon, on holy days of obligation still obse...
Occasionally we have a collision of Holy Days of Obligations and Feasts in the calendar. Feasts get transferred. Does the obligation get transferred? We had this situation recently regarding the Feast/Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception which fell on an Advent Sunday. In the Novus Ordo the li...
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying: This is the covenant I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord: “I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them upon their minds,” he also says: ...
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Martin Luther rejected many parts of Holy Scripture, and both added to and subtracted from the Holy Word of GOD in a vain attempt to make it conform to his teaching. Apostates in criticizing the Word of GOD are in fact setting themselves up as critics of GOD Himself. Martin Luther is ...
Now to consecrate means to ‘make holy’. But Jesus is the fount of all holiness; he is Lord, God the Son. This is irony. So too, Mary undergoes forty days of purification, but she is purity itself, for she is the Immaculate Conception, she is ‘full of grace’, as the angel ...
Have you contributed to the support of the Church? SINS AGAINST THE PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH I.Have you observed all Sundays and Holydays as commanded by the Church? II.Have you kept the fast? Eaten meat on prohibited days? Encouraged others to violate the precepts of the Church? Scandalized...