Holy Days of Obligation

Particular Notes on the Liturgical Year of 2024-2025 for the Ordinariate 

1. Upon the recommendation of the Governing Council on 9 June 2016, Bishop Lopes has decreed that the following Solemnities will be observed as Holy Days of Obligation in the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter: 

• 8 December, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
 (of precept in the United States but not in Canada)
 • 25 December, Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
 • 1 January , Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
 • Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, Solemnity of the Ascension
 (kept on its traditional date forty days after Easter, nine days before Whitsunday)
 • 15 August, Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
 • 1 November, Solemnity of All Saints  

2. Whenever 1 January, 15 August, or 1 November fall on a Saturday or a Monday, the precept to attend Mass is abrogated. Mass attendance is always obligatory on Christmas (25 December), the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (in the United States), and on the Solemnity of the Ascension. When the Second Sunday of Advent falls on December 8th, the Immaculate Conception is transferred to Monday, December 9th, and mass attendance remains obligatory in the United States. 

3. For the liturgical year of 2024-2025, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is transferred to Monday, December 9th, 2024, and is a Holy Day of Obligation (change announced 10 October 2024). In calendar year 2025, the Solemnity falls on Monday, December 8th, 2025, and is a Holy Day of Obligation. 

4. The Bishop further decreed that, within the Ordinariate, the Solemnity of the Epiphany will be celebrated on the Sunday between 2 January and 8 January and that the Solemnity of the Most Precious Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) will be observed on the second Sunday after Pentecost (in keeping with the Latin Rite dioceses of the United States and Canada and per the determinations of the Episcopal Conferences of both countries). 

5. In 2025, the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord is celebrated on Sunday, 5 January. 

6. The Ordinariate’s Solemnity of Title, the Solemnity of the Chair of Saint Peter, will be transferred to Sunday 23 February, 2025, taking precedence over and replacing Sexagesima. 

7. The Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Virgin Mary, is on its usual date, Wednesday, 19 March, in the Second Week of Lent. 

8. The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord is on its usual date, Tuesday, 25 March, in the Third Week of Lent. 

9. The 2025 Chrism Mass for the Ordinariate will be celebrated by the Bishop at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham on Thursday, 10 April, which is Thursday in Passion Week. This is to accommodate the travel schedules of the clergy, allowing them to return to their parishes for Holy Week. 1

0. The Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, 24 September, falls on a Wednesday this year. At the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, since its Solemnity of Title outranks the Sunday after Trinity, the Solemnity is transferred to Sunday, 21 September, beginning with EP1 on Saturday and concluding with EP2. Elsewhere in the Ordinariate, the Feast is observed on Wednesday, and EP1 is not observed.