for 2023: Ascension of Jesus, Thursday, May 18 Celebrated on the sixth Thursday after Easter Sunday. The following are holy days of obligation in the U.S. There are five holy days of obligation outside of Sundays this year. And the province of Newark, New Jersey, decided just last year to move the celebration to Sunday. US Catholic Holy Days of Obligation for 2023. Some moved the date in later years, such as the ecclesiastical province of Baltimore, for example, which decided to change the date in 2002. Most provinces decided to move the celebration to Sunday those mentioned earlier, which are mostly in the Northeast, retained the Thursday celebration. January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the solemnity of the Ascension August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary November 1, the solemnity of All Saints December 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception December 25, the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus.
the conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the Apostolic See,’” allowed each ecclesiastical province in the United States to determine whether to move the celebration of the Ascension to the Sunday following the Sixth Week of Easter.
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However, in subsequent action in 1999, the bishops’ conference, “in accord with the provisions of Canon 1246, §2 of the Code of Canon Law, which states: ‘. Whenever January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, or August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption, or November 1, the solemnity of All Saints, falls on a. 25, the Nativity of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. 15, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Nov. There are six Holy Days of Obligation where Catholics are expected to observe these days by attendance at Mass. Ascension is now moved permanently to the 7th Sunday of Easter. 1, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God the Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the Ascension Aug. Holy Days of Obligation 6/6/13 January 1st (Mary, Mother of God), August 15th (Assumption of Mary), and November 1st (All Saints) are Holy Days of Obligation unless they fall on Saturday or Monday.
Conference of Catholic Bishops) stated in a 1991 decree that, in addition to Sundays, there are several days to be observed as holy days of obligation: Jan. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (now called the U.S.
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