So basically, the USCCB has the power to abrogate the HDO when it is transferred to a Saturday or Monday. However, the USCCB explicitly did *not* do so for the Immaculate Conception. Therefore, the Immaculate Conception has always been an HDO even when it is transferred to Saturday or Monday.
Glad that’s cleared up. Now do the same for the year-round Friday penance obligation.
So basically, the USCCB has the power to abrogate the HDO when it is transferred to a Saturday or Monday. However, the USCCB explicitly did *not* do so for the Immaculate Conception. Therefore, the Immaculate Conception has always been an HDO even when it is transferred to Saturday or Monday.
Glad that’s cleared up. Now do the same for the year-round Friday penance obligation.
Yes, it's always been the law in the US that IC is obligatory even when it falls on a Saturday or a Monday. The question here is whether that obligation follows it when it falls on a Sunday and is transferred to Monday.
The big question for me is not the result of this question, but why we have done it that way all along. This comes up every 5 or 6 years, and it was not obligatory in 2019. Why the change now?
So basically, the USCCB has the power to abrogate the HDO when it is transferred to a Saturday or Monday. However, the USCCB explicitly did *not* do so for the Immaculate Conception. Therefore, the Immaculate Conception has always been an HDO even when it is transferred to Saturday or Monday.
Glad that’s cleared up. Now do the same for the year-round Friday penance obligation.
Yes, it's always been the law in the US that IC is obligatory even when it falls on a Saturday or a Monday. The question here is whether that obligation follows it when it falls on a Sunday and is transferred to Monday.
The big question for me is not the result of this question, but why we have done it that way all along. This comes up every 5 or 6 years, and it was not obligatory in 2019. Why the change now?
Well, it’s not about changing it now. It’s about realizing we’ve not been following the law of Church as it is written up until now.