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Attending Mass, Sunday and Holy Days of ObligationMarch 17, 2023Since the middle of March 2020, our freedom to physically attend Mass had been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Celebrating the Eucharist as a community in churches was no longer accessible for reasons beyond our control. Yet we found ways to listen to God’s Word at home and through the digital world. We united ourselves through personal and family prayers.
The dispensation was always meant to be a temporary exemption for the sake of the health, safety, and common good of all. After having consulted and discerned, seeing that most of the pandemic restrictions have been lifted, the general dispensation from Sunday and holy days of obligations will be lifted with effect from Palm Sunday 2023.
We remind ourselves once again, “the Lord’s Day, on which the paschal mystery is celebrated, is by apostolic tradition to be observed in the universal Church as a primary holy day of obligation” . As provided for in the Church’s Canon Law, for those who are unable to fulfil the Sunday and holy days of obligations due to grave reasons which include serious medical conditions , you are still held to keep holy the Lord’s day in other ways. You should “spend an appropriate time in prayer, whether personally or as a family” , which could include participating in an online Mass.on Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass.
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