[sinkspur]

You didn't reply to my Easter Vigil question, which was celebrated as a "vigil," and attendance at which was considered attendance at an Easter Mass.

There IS precedent.

[Loyalist]

You didn't reply to my Easter Vigil question, which was celebrated as a "vigil," and attendance at which was considered attendance at an Easter Mass.

And only at Easter Vigil, which had been moving earlier and earlier into the day.

Pius XII rightly had it moved back to a later time so that Mass could begin at midnight in proper fulfilment of the Sunday obligation.

Yes, sometimes there was widespread liturgical abuse before Vatican II. But at least it was corrected.