When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday and so is transferred to another day, the Catholic faithful are encouraged to ...

The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is also a holy day of obligation for Catholics, meaning they are required to attend the Holy Mass. Since the liturgical celebration was transferred to ...

Holy Days of Obligation are days within the Church’s liturgical year that are feast days and therefore mean that Catholics must attend Mass on those days. They may be celebrated during Sunday ...

This intrepid missionary-explorer even devised a chaplet of the Immaculate Conception. In the Spanish colonies the feast had been established as a holy day of obligation by the First Provincial ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila on Saturday reminded the faithful that the Solemnity of the Immaculate ... The holy day of obligation to attend mass on Dec.

Ten years later the Sorbonne in Paris required all its degree candidates to pledge an oath to defend the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Pope Sixtus IV in 1476 approved the feast with its proper Mass ...

966 "Finally the Immaculate ... is the day on which the paschal mystery is celebrated in light of the apostolic tradition and is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the ...