Posted on 09/27/2022 6:14:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Vatican has turned down a request from some U.S. bishops to add a feast day celebrating the marriage of Joseph and Mary to the Church’s universal liturgical calendar.
The Vatican has turned down a request from some U.S. bishops to add a feast day celebrating the marriage of Joseph and Mary to the Church’s universal liturgical calendar.
The U.S. bishops' conference told bishops earlier this month that “a number of bishops have written to the Holy See in support of a petition to add the Feast of the Holy Spouses, Mary and Joseph, to the Church’s universal calendar. This celebration, which focuses on the betrothal of Mary and Joseph, has been approved at various times for liturgical use in some places and for certain religious institutes.”
But Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Vatican’s liturgical office, “would like our conference to know that that ‘there are no plans to reinstate this celebration in the universal calendar,’” according to a Sept. 2 memo from Archbishop Leonard Blair, chair of the USCCB’s committee on liturgy.
The memo, which was seen by The Pillar this week, added additional context for that decision.
“Cardinal Roche pointed out that even before the liturgical reforms inaugurated by the Second Vatican Council, the Holy See had begun to simplify the liturgical calendar…This led to the removal of various devotional feasts from the universal calendar, as well as from local calendars” including the feast which celebrated the betrothal of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph.
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The Vatican is in enemy hands.
Roche is a lower than a cockroach.
I grew up Catholic; went to Catholic school through grade 6, left the Catholic church when I was forward deployed in the US Navy, got back to the Catholic church when I moved here, then, about five months ago (sorry this is a run-on sentence), decided to leave the church again. I have no regrets.
Wow!
How could they NOT!?
It seems to me that you can celebrate anything you want, regardless if it’s on some ‘calendar’ or not...
In this age of rampant divorce, so-called same sex marriage, and widespread shacking up before marriage (if the couple even marries at all), a Feast of the Holy Spouses sounds like a great idea. Replace an “Ordinary Sunday” with it. Could have a blessing for married couples at the end of Mass. The Church has an opportunity to provide a countercultural witness to true marriage. St. Thomas More died a martyr defending the sanctity of marriage and the marriage bond.
What’s novel idea!
My point is that individuals don’t require a date on a calendar to observe and honor something. If the Church doesn’t officially do it, that’s not stopping any individual from doing it.
What poor grammar!
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