Posted on 03/21/2020 6:31:58 PM PDT by marshmallow
Easter'cannot be transferred to another time,' said Cardinal Robert Sarah.
VATICAN CITY, March 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, has found it necessary to remind the world that the Catholic Church’s celebration of Easter cannot be moved to a different date on account of the coronavirus lockdown.
In a letter released today, Sarah said that he had received a number of questions about Easter because of the coronavirus pandemic. He reminded readers that Easter is “the heart of the entire liturgical year and is not simply one feast among others.”
“The Easter Triduum is celebrated over an arc of three days which is preceded by Lent and crowned by Pentecost and, therefore, cannot be transferred to another time,” he stated.
The annual Chrism Mass, usually celebrated on the Tuesday of Holy Week, may, however, be postponed by bishops to a later date. Expressions of popular piety and processions common to Holy Week and the Easter Triduum may also take place later in the year, depending on the judgement of local ordinaries. The cardinal suggested September 14 and 15.
“The faithful should be informed of the times of the celebration so that they can prayerfully unite themselves in their homes,” he continued.
“In this occasion, the means of live (not recorded) televisual or internet broadcasts are helpful.”
Some parts of the usual ceremonies will be eliminated. For example, there will be no washing of feet, “which is already optional”, during the Holy Thursday liturgies. The customary procession from the altar to the place of repose will also be omitted, and the Blessed Sacrament will be kept in the tabernacle.
Sarah stated that wherever civil and ecclesiastical authorities had placed restrictions on public assembly because of the coronavirus, the celebration of Holy Thursday, Good......
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This will be a monumental Easter- Passover.
Was there some sort of a demand to move Easter to another day?! What? Seriously?! It ain’t the Olympics, folks. It comes when it comes, i.e., first Sunday after first full moon on or after spring equinox.
It can’t be moved but the Easter Mass can be cancelled.
Some consolation!
Robert Sarah for Pope.
I am praying for a full release on Easter Sunday.
Why not? The the apostate USSCB have long ago moved Ascension Thursday to a Sunday.
And that was a “conference” decision.
Not that any would have the guts to do so — but any bishop can refuse this for his own diocese. The USCCB likes to act like a legislative body, but in truth it has no jurisdiction whatever.
They better gear up to do it online.
Not that any would have the guts to do so — but any bishop can refuse this for his own diocese. The USCCB likes to act like a legislative body, but in truth it has no jurisdiction whatever.
I agree with you, but it's been getting away with it for a long time: transferring Holy Days of Obligation, Communion in the Paw, altar chicks, etc.
On December 13, 1991 the members of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States of America made the following general decree concerning holy days of obligation for Latin Rite Catholics:
In addition to Sunday, the days to be observed as holy days of obligation in the Latin Rite dioceses of the United States of America, in conformity with canon 1246, are as follows:
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 Christ
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 Saturday or on a Monday, the precept to attend Mass is abrogated.
This decree of the Conference of Bishops was approved and confirmed by the Apostolic See by a decree of the Congregation for Bishops (Prot. N. 296/84), signed by Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, Prefect of the Congregation, and dated July 4, 1992.
As President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, I hereby declare that the effective date of this decree for all the Latin Rite dioceses of the United States of America will be January 1, 1993, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
Given at the offices of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC, November 17, 1992.
Most Reverend Daniel E. Pilarczyk
Archbishop of Cincinnati
President, NCCB
Monsignor Robert N. Lynch
General Secretary
In the United States, the body of Bishops determined that Communion should be received standing, and that a bow is the act of reverence made by those receiving. These norms may require some adjustment on the part of those who have been used to other practices, however the significance of unity in posture and gesture as a symbol of our unity as members of the one body of Christ should be the governing factor in our own actions.
Must be hurting for a new batch of martyrs/saints...
Yeah - and a lot of us prayed Katrina right out of the Gulf of Mexico so the storm died in the open water and didn’t hurt anything....
Prosperity gospel is a false gospel. Christians worship a Lord who’s crucified.
I wish Churchill Downs had as much sense as this guy.
ML/NJ
Yes - but the Lord is also about using common sense...Old Testament (which Catholics use in many cases even when they conflict with living under the New Covenant) has some cleanliness “suggestions” - especially when living in camps ... washing hands and separating oneself from others was part of it...
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