{"id":2057,"date":"2017-12-10T11:43:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T11:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2017-12-09T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T11:56:08","slug":"fourth-sunday-of-advent-and-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/10\/fourth-sunday-of-advent-and-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Sunday of Advent and Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As happened about six or seven years ago when Christmas\u00a0day last fell on a Monday, people have understandably\u00a0asked this question: if I normally go to Mass on a Sunday\u00a0evening, does that satisfy at once the obligation to go to\u00a0Mass both on the Sunday and at Christmas? Guidance\u00a0given by the Liturgy Office of the Bishops Conference makes\u00a0it clear that the answer is ‘No!’<\/p>\n

The statement says: ‘The primary purpose of a holy day\u00a0of obligation is to call the faithful to celebrate particular\u00a0dimensions of the mysteries of Christ and His Church.\u00a0Since obligation is attached to specific mysteries being\u00a0celebrated, it is not possible to fulfil two obligations in\u00a0one celebration.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

This means that you are expected to go to Mass on the\u00a0Fourth Sunday of Advent and<\/em> to Mass on Christmas Eve or\u00a0Christmas Day. It has been made clear that you cannot do\u00a0these things by\u00a0 attending one single<\/em> Mass on the evening of\u00a0Christmas Eve. You could do so by attending two such\u00a0Masses (and this parish you can do this as we have three\u00a0early evening Masses on Christmas Eve) but it would be\u00a0much better to go to an Advent Mass on the Saturday\u00a0evening or Sunday morning and then a Christmas Mass on\u00a0Sunday evening or Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As happened about six or seven years ago when Christmas\u00a0day last fell on a Monday, people have understandably\u00a0asked this question: if I normally go to Mass on a Sunday\u00a0evening, does that satisfy at once the obligation to go to\u00a0Mass both on the Sunday and at Christmas? Guidance\u00a0given by the Liturgy Office of the Bishops Conference makes\u00a0it clear that the answer is ‘No!’ The statement says: ‘The primary purpose of a holy day\u00a0of obligation is to call the faithful to celebrate particular\u00a0dimensions of the mysteries of Christ and His Church.\u00a0Since obligation is attached to specific mysteries being\u00a0celebrated, it is not possible to fulfil two obligations in\u00a0one celebration.’ This means that you are expected to go to Mass on the\u00a0Fourth Sunday of Advent and to Mass on Christmas Eve or\u00a0Christmas Day. It has been made clear that you cannot do\u00a0these things by\u00a0 attending one single Mass on the evening of\u00a0Christmas Eve. You could do so by attending two such\u00a0Masses (and this parish you can do this as we have three\u00a0early evening Masses on Christmas Eve) but it would be\u00a0much better to go to an Advent Mass on the Saturday\u00a0evening or Sunday morning and then a Christmas Mass on\u00a0Sunday evening or Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}