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To: the invisib1e hand; ELS

Actually, I just recently learned that in countries where the Epiphany is a holy day of obligation, it’s still celebrated on January 6. In countries where it isn’t such a day, it’s celebrated on the Sunday after January 1.


10 posted on 01/07/2010 7:16:53 AM PST by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Pyro7480
Thanks for the info. That applies to the ordinary form, which agrees with what I said for the U.S. (where the Feast of the Epiphany is not a holy day of obligation).

In the extraordinary form, the Sunday after January 1, is the Holy Name of Jesus and the Sunday after January 6 is the Holy Family (unless, of course, January 6 falls on a Sunday).

11 posted on 01/07/2010 7:33:28 AM PST by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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