It’s helpful thanks.
Myself I went off the reservation (so to speak) when I hit my 20’s and early 30’s and not only left the Church but all Christendom for about 10 years so I may just not recall properly. My mother, I don’t know maybe she doesn’t recall well either. I’m not sure.
It would be helpful to know when that particular code went into effect. That is, if it was in 1983 or if it didn’t replace or update the older Code in that paragraph.
In other words, 1983 was just about the time I started to lose my religion (no thanks to R.E.M haha) so it may have become an obligatory day then. Or maybe it was always obligatory and my mother and I are just not recalling well.
I may research this further when I’m not restricted to my iPhone.
You are not alone. Many of us have traveled the same path. God never ceases to call us back. Welcome home, again.
I believe Claud satisfied the question of Holy Day of Obligation pre VCII. As to when the code went into effect, according to the USCCB, 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 the old Missal, it was the Feast of the Circumcision. In the new Missal (1969), it’s Mary, the Mother of God.
It has always been a Holyday of Obligation.