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CajunRick
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Posted: Fri Feb 22nd, 2008 11:39 am |
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Vatican City, Feb 22, 2008 / 04:11 am (CNA).- The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has transferred the celebration of the Solemnity of St. Joseph to March 15, since the traditional date of observance—March 19—coincides with Wednesday of Holy Week.
The universal norms of the Liturgical year and Calendar stipulate that the celebrations of Holy Week, including Wednesday, have priority over any other celebration, feast day or solemnity. If the feast of St. Joseph had not been moved this year, it would have been completely omitted, as the week after is the Octave of Easter, which also trumps any other feast day or solemnity.
For this same reason, the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, which is normally observed on March 25, has been moved to March 31, the first Monday after the Easter Octave.
The above article is reposted with permission from Catholic News Agency.
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Rick Luquette
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Posted: Fri Feb 22nd, 2008 03:03 pm |
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I checked my calendar and these altered dates are already on it. Do the rest of you get the wonderful calendar from the Catholic Church Extension Society? It's great for us converts, because it spells out where we are in the Liturgical year, explains some things like fasting and abstinence, shows the saints days and describes people and apostolates in the wider world. The website address is http://www.catholicextension.org, and the phone number is 800-842-7804. Our parish distributes these calendars, and the bottom flap has the phone numbers on it of the people who work in the office and the times of the mass. I refer to mine just about every day.
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