The Irish standard., 1911-08-26
IN RE THE HOLY DAYS
OF OBLIGATION
Sacred Congregation of Rites Issues
a Decree, Sequel to
Motu Proprio.
Pope Plus X Accedes to the Peti-
tions of Bishops Regarding
the Feast Days.
Certain Inconvenience Will be
Remedied by the Action
Thus Taken.

The following. in reference to the
holy days, was forwarded from Rome
under date OF August II:
Since the publication of the Motu
Propro of His Holiness on holidays
Of obligation, many. bishops have
made representations on the subject to
the Holy Sec expressing their thank
funess for the reform, and at the
same time making various suggestions
to remedy certain nconvcnicnccs be-
fore the new law became absolutely
fixed. Most of these representations
dwelt on the fact that, as the feast and
octave of ST. Joseph would very lrc-
uuenty fall ON the 'privilcGcd Sun
days" of Lent, there would be no COM
memoration in such years OF the
saints, either in the Office or Mass,
and that, as the office Of the days Of
Week, it would have to be omitted al
together. Most of these Bishops
therefore asked that in order to main
tain and increase the cult of ST. ]o-
seph the feast be celebrated OH March
I19, without an octave. and not as u
holiday of obligation, and that the
feast of the Patronage of st. Joseph
be endowed with all the rights ana
privileges appcrtainng to Principal
Patrons and celebrated as Il Double
of the First Class with octave, as Is
already done in some places and in
stitutcS. They also asked that the
Feast of Corpus Christi be celebrated,
as heretofore, on the Thursday after
day of obligation, and that the cXtcr-
nal solcmnity be transferred to the
following Sunday His Holiness, after
consulting the Congregation of Rites
and the Lturgical Commission, acccd-
cd to the petitions, and has issued
through the Congregation a Decree
dated July 3D which makes the fol-
lowing changes in the provisions Of
the Motu Proprio:
/. The Feast of st. Joseph shall be
celebrated on March 10, without pre-
ccpt and without octave, as a Double
flns
"SoIemn Commcmoration of ST Jo-
scph, Spouse Of Nj. ", Confcssor'
9. The Feast of the Patronage OF
ST. Joseph shall hc celebrated on the
Third Sunday after Easter, as a Dou-
bic of the First Class with octave, and
as Il Primary Feast, under the title:
"Solennty of ST. Joseph, Spouse OF
NJ. ", Confessor, Patron of the UNI
vcrsal Church"
9, ON the days within the octave
and Of the octave Of the SOlcmnity OF
81. Joseph the Office shall be said rs
given in the appendix Of the "Octa-
varium Romanun."
4. The Feast Of the Most Holy
Trinity. fixed for tho First Sunday af-
ter Pentccost, shall be celebrated as q
Double OF the First Glass.
5. The Feast Of Corpus Romin
shall be celebrated, without prccept
as Il Double of the First Class ant
with privileged octave, like the oc.
tavc of the Epiphany. on the Thurs.
day after Trinity Sunday, under thu
title: Solemn CommemOratiOn Of Tho
| Most Holy Of Our Lord Jesus Christ
6. On the Sunday within the Oc.
| tavc of this Feast, in cathedral ant
collegiate churches, after the office ant
F.; Mass of the Sunday, one solemn Mas:
! may be celebrated, as in the feasts
with "Gloria," single prayer, sequences
"Crcdo," and the Gospel Of st. Johl
at the end. Where there Is no obliga
ton of ConvcntuAl Mass, however, tho
| commemOratiOn Of the Sunday Is tt
he read at the end of the Mass. or
| this Sunday the solemn procession o.
the Blessed Sacrament, prescribed II
the "Ceremonial of Bishops Glib. !.
Cap, xxxiii is to be made.
Z. On the Thursday after the octave
the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
shall be celebrated as a Double Of thu
] First Class.
The Decree applies also to Religious