Just so I have this right: my understanding is that Immaculate Conception was obligatory when it fell on a Monday or Saturday, and this held true because Immaculate Conception wasn't given the exception on Holy Days of Obligation on a Monday or Saturday.
Because I remember this happened in 2018 when the 8th Immaculate Conception fell on S…
Just so I have this right: my understanding is that Immaculate Conception was obligatory when it fell on a Monday or Saturday, and this held true because Immaculate Conception wasn't given the exception on Holy Days of Obligation on a Monday or Saturday.
Because I remember this happened in 2018 when the 8th Immaculate Conception fell on Saturday, and that there was a flow chart to explain how to fulfill your obligation, (e.g. an evening Mass on Saturday and a morning Mass on Sunday would satisfy your two obligations (even if both Masses are the Masses for the Sunday of Advent) -- we had to do the same last year for Christmas on Monday.
The contention here is whether or not Immaculate Conception is obligatory when the 8th falls on a Sunday and Immaculate Conception is bumped to the 9th?
As an aside: I agree that it isn't burdensome to ask Catholics to go to Mass two days in a row, but as it is now, it is burdensome to try to explain to people how to fulfill those obligations. There was no way for me to explain Christmas to my parents last year without sounding like a crazy person.
> There was no way for me to explain Christmas to my parents last year without sounding like a crazy person.
Because of my custody schedule, if I recall correctly I offered my two sons the option of two evening Masses on the same day (so they were both Christmas Eve Masses) or one evening Mass and one morning Mass... 1 kid wanted one and the other wanted the other (their idea of a good liturgy is "one that my brother is NOT AT") so I went to 3 Masses ... and in the overlapping Mass, one of them went down to the overflow Mass in the church basement (he got a seat and we were SRO upstairs) so they both, by some Christmas miracle, got their wish throughout.
Just so I have this right: my understanding is that Immaculate Conception was obligatory when it fell on a Monday or Saturday, and this held true because Immaculate Conception wasn't given the exception on Holy Days of Obligation on a Monday or Saturday.
Because I remember this happened in 2018 when the 8th Immaculate Conception fell on Saturday, and that there was a flow chart to explain how to fulfill your obligation, (e.g. an evening Mass on Saturday and a morning Mass on Sunday would satisfy your two obligations (even if both Masses are the Masses for the Sunday of Advent) -- we had to do the same last year for Christmas on Monday.
The contention here is whether or not Immaculate Conception is obligatory when the 8th falls on a Sunday and Immaculate Conception is bumped to the 9th?
As an aside: I agree that it isn't burdensome to ask Catholics to go to Mass two days in a row, but as it is now, it is burdensome to try to explain to people how to fulfill those obligations. There was no way for me to explain Christmas to my parents last year without sounding like a crazy person.
> There was no way for me to explain Christmas to my parents last year without sounding like a crazy person.
Because of my custody schedule, if I recall correctly I offered my two sons the option of two evening Masses on the same day (so they were both Christmas Eve Masses) or one evening Mass and one morning Mass... 1 kid wanted one and the other wanted the other (their idea of a good liturgy is "one that my brother is NOT AT") so I went to 3 Masses ... and in the overlapping Mass, one of them went down to the overflow Mass in the church basement (he got a seat and we were SRO upstairs) so they both, by some Christmas miracle, got their wish throughout.