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GScheid
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 Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 09:41:08 AM
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St. Patrick’s Day gets bumped by Holy Week
Dispensation allows meat on that Friday
By Nancy Menefee Jackson
njackson@catholicreview.org
St. Patrick got bumped by St. Joseph, but both saints find their feast days shifted this year due to a quirk of the calendar.
Their feast days fall during Holy Week and must be moved because nothing takes precedence over Holy Week, said Monsignor Robert J. Jaskot, chancellor of the archdiocese.
Since the feast of St. Joseph is the higher feast, it will move to March 15. St. Patrick’s feast day, usually March 17, will be celebrated March 14.
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will celebrate Mass at 10 a. m.
on March 14 at the Catholic Community of St. Michael and St. Patrick in Fells Point. Father Robert Wojtek, the pastor, worried that people wouldn’t hear about the date change, and the archbishop would find himself facing empty pews.
A dispensation from abstinence was granted by the archdiocese so that people can enjoy corned beef and cabbage and other meat, even though it is a Friday in Lent, said Sean Caine, spokesman for the archdiocese. Pastors and pastoral life directors received a memo about the dispensation earlier this month.
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GScheid
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Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 09:50:56 AM
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I see this was discussed in the past on Catholic Pages:
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Gscheid
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I recall last time St Patricks Day fell on a Friday some US Bishops gave a Dispensation so some could partake of corned beef and cabbage. I see no reason why this needs to be given. I hear people already asking for this already this year--like they are not sure what they would do without there cabbage.
We only have some 6 Lenten Fridays that we are asked to abstain from Meat--is this so difficult?
We are filled with moveable holidays in this country. We even moved many of the Holy Days of Obligations to Sunday to make them more convenient.
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GScheid
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But why dispensation now? St Patrick's day is March 17th--everyone knows that. And this year it is on a Monday. Yes, during Holy Week--so they will move it to celebrate on another day. Fine, but why move it to a Friday during Lent? A meatless day? Are we so weak we need help getting us through giving up meat once a week?
Gerry
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GScheid
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cheid
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I was told for a repast this Friday held at our local chapter of the Knights of Columbus--the family/ cooks are looking for dispensation to serve meat--Since they cite last year when Saint Patrick's day fell on Friday the DC/ Baltimore diocese's were given that. Surely, this can not be the case this year, but how inconvenient is it to ask to abstain from meat one day a week?
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I remember what Ebeneezer Scrooge says in A Christmas Carol
"You'll be wanting the whole day off tomorrow. You see Crachett, that's my problem. I'm a victim of my own generosity. Give you one Christmas off and you'll expect to have them all. Very well, take the day, but be here all the earlier the next morning."
I was a little shocked that the indult was granted last year, and it bothers me that people are asking for another indult, in light of the fact that it isn't even St. Patrick's Day!
Last year I wondered why people couldn't just wait to celebrate St. Patrick's Day on the 18th?
Funny, Catholics have no problem moving important feast days to Sunday so that they don't have to have a holy day of obligation during the week (Ascension, Assumption) but they couldn't push St. Patrick's Day when they saw a chance to get out of a meatless Friday.
And Jesus said to them: Come after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
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DeniseLawson
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Posted - Mar 20 2008 : 04:06:46 AM
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Originally posted by GScheid
But why dispensation now? St Patrick's day is March 17th--everyone knows that. And this year it is on a Monday. Yes, during Holy Week--so they will move it to celebrate on another day. Fine, but why move it to a Friday during Lent? A meatless day? Are we so weak we need help getting us through giving up meat once a week?
Gerry
“Everyone needs thirty minutes of personal prayer time each day, unless they are too busy to pray—in which case, they need an hour!”
Saint Francis de Sales
Just a thought, but I suspect it was moved to Friday because it is the closest non-Sunday to the traditional feast day that is not already taken by a higher-priority solemnity such as St. Joseph's day. I doubt it has anything to do with a dispensation from abstaining from meat on Friday. I also suspect, however, that some will use it as an excuse to seek out that dispensation. Ironically, I thought I saw somewhere that in Ireland, St. Patrick's feast was celebrated on Saturday. I'll have to see if I can find that.
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