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In 1907, when, in accordance with the rules in force since the time of Pope Pius V, feast days of any form of double, if impeded by "occurrence" (falling on the same day) [2] with a feast day of higher class, were transferred to another day, this classification of feast days was of great practical importance for deciding which feast day to ...
There used to be many more holy days of obligation. With the motu proprio of 2 July 1911, Supremi disciplinae, Pope Pius X reduced the number of such non-Sunday holy days from 36 to 8: the above 10 dates (1 January was then the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ) minus the feasts the Body and Blood of Christ, and Saint Joseph. [3]
On those days the Mass of the current liturgical day must be used, but the collect may be taken from a memorial of the day, except on Ash Wednesday and during Holy Week. [ 17 ] The Liturgy of the Hours as revised by Pope Paul VI and promulgated in 1970 [ 18 ] prescribes that on the days when in Mass the collect is the only part of a memorial ...
1 January: Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God – solemnity; 2 January: Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church – memorial; 3 January: The Most Holy Name of Jesus – optional memorial; 6 January: The Epiphany of the Lord – solemnity a; 7 January: Saint Raymond of Penyafort, Priest – optional ...
All such permissions, however, were to be granted by the Holy See, and Pius XII strongly condemned the efforts of individual priests and communities to introduce the vernacular on their own authority. He allowed the use of the vernacular in other rites and sacraments outside the Mass, [6] in the service for Baptism and Extreme Unction. [7]
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross (also called the Elevation of the Cross) commemorates the recovery of the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. The Persians had captured it as a prize of war in Jerusalem in the year 614, and it was recovered by the forces of the Eastern Roman Empire ("Byzantine Empire") in 629.
This article lists the feast days of the General Roman Calendar as they were at the end of 1954. It is essentially the same calendar established by Pope Pius X (1903–1914) following his liturgical reforms, but it also incorporates changes that were made by Pope Pius XI (1922–1939), such as the institution of the Feast of Christ the King (assigned to the last Sunday in October), and the ...
Memorials are either obligatory or optional. The rules governing the celebration of memorials, whether obligatory or optional, are identical. The only difference is precisely that an optional memorial need not be observed, and, with the limitations indicated for the second part of Advent and for Lent, there is the possibility of celebrating instead the Mass either of another memorial assigned ...