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PDF Download • “Evening Masses and Days of Obligation” (58 pages)

Jeff Ostrowski · November 25, 2017

3819 evening Y RECENT POST about “simultaneous fulfillment” of Mass obligation generated quite a lot of email from readers. We always love getting messages, but some people who wrote chose not to read the article—something normal and expected, but which never fails to make me sad. One email came from Fr. Shawn P. Tunink, who gave permission for us to share this marvelous dissertation:

    * *  PDF • “Evening Masses and Days of Obligation” (58 pages)

It covers a lot of ground, including whether permission for “anticipated” Masses has anything to do with how Jewish people calculated daytime. It also talks about the very first time this permission was granted, out of a concern for (…wait for it…) people on skiing trips!

A brief excerpt from page 40:

Only in the case of a feast of the Lord or a solemnity falling on a Sunday would a feast actually take precedence over the Sunday. In this case there would be only one obligation to attend Mass. However, when a feast day falls on Saturday or Monday, the celebration of Sunday as the Lord’s day retains its proper distinctiveness, including its own proper obligation. Liturgically, there are two separate feasts being celebrated on two separate days, each with its own proper obligation. Even though there is a period of time that would overlap for the fulfilling of either obligation, this would not remove the fact that there are two distinct obligations to attend Mass.

This is definitely a PDF you will want to download and save on your hard drive for a long time.

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Filed Under: Articles, PDF Download Tagged With: anticipated Mass, simultaneous Mass obligation, vigil Mass Last Updated: January 1, 2020

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Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He resides with his wife and children in Los Angeles.—(Read full biography).

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One of our most popular downloads has proven to be the organ accompaniment to “The Monastery Hymnal” (131 pages). This book was compiled, arranged, and edited by Achille P. Bragers, who studied at the Lemmensinstituut (Belgium) about thirty years before that school produced the NOH. Bragers might be considered an example of Belgium “Stile Antico” whereas Flor Peeters and Jules Van Nuffel represented Belgium “Prima Pratica.” You can download the hymnal by Bragers at this link.

—Jeff Ostrowski
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In the Introit for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, there is a question regarding whether to capitalize the word “christi.” The Vulgata does not, because Psalm 27 is not specifically referring to Our Lord, but rather to God’s “anointed one.” However, Missals tend to capitalize it, such as the official 1962 Missal and also a book from 1777 called Missel de Paris. Something tells me Monsignor Knox would not capitalize it.

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—Jeff Ostrowski

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