Author Topic: Double check - is next Sunday the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart? (Read 1282 times)

Matthew · « **on:** May 30, 2016, 10:18:57 PM »

I'm talking about the 1962 Liturgical calendar.

I just wanted to double check with the knowledgeable Catholics on here.

I need to know for planning purposes.

Thanks!

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2016, 10:45:13 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

I'm talking about the 1962 Liturgical calendar.

I just wanted to double check with the knowledgeable Catholics on here.

I need to know for planning purposes.

Thanks!

My calendar has Sunday within the Octave of the Sacred Heart.

Friday is First Friday AND Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Saturday is First Saturday.

But I don't know about the 1962 calendar, since they had eliminated octaves a lot.

Stubborn · « **Reply #2 on:** May 31, 2016, 05:18:57 AM »

I have next Sunday as the Third Sunday after Pentecost, Friday is the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

TKGS · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2016, 06:23:40 AM »

The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart is always the second Friday after Pentecost even in the Novus Ordo calendar. The date hasn't changed in many years so it doesn't matter which calendar your chapel uses (unless it's a pre-1856 calendar! :wink:)

The Mass of the solemnity is sometimes celebrated on the following Sunday though I don't don't know if this is strictly authorized or if was simply done by individual priests or dioceses. I tried looking this up online and couldn't find anything even indicating that it could be transferred (i.e., the way Ascension Thursday is transferred in the Novus Ordo or the way I've seen Corpus Christi transferred).

I think you will need to contact the priest who will be at your chapel on Sunday to ask which Mass he will celebrate.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2016, 09:00:24 AM »

Quote from: Neil Obstat (May 30, 2016, 11:45 pm)

Quote from: Matthew (May 30, 2016, 11:18 pm)
[is next Sunday the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart?]  I'm talking about the 1962 Liturgical calendar.

My calendar has Sunday within the Octave of the Sacred Heart. Friday is First Friday AND Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Saturday is First Saturday.

Me too. And the latter is also Saturday within the Octave. It hadn't occurred to me that abolishing octaves could be ~~ an excuse ~~ a rationale for moving the feast to a Sunday.

Quote from: Neil Obstat (May 30, 2016, 11:45 pm)

But I don't know about the 1962 calendar, since they had eliminated octaves a lot.

Me neither, altho' I believe that's technically the 1960 liturgical calendar ("Good Pope John" XXIII, proprietor). I'd always assumed that when Pope Pius IX extended the increasingly popular feast to the Universal Church (1856), the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart was simply placed on the first available day after the Octave Day of Corpus Christi (a Thursday by definition), thus a Friday.

But despite the time I've devoted to calendrical analysis, I never pondered how all that above relates--chronologically--to the customary votive devotion to the Sacred Heart on Fridays. Or (having previously failed to make the logical connection) to the likewise customary votive devotion to the Blessed Sacrament (literally Corpus Christi only, for us laity) on Thursdays.