[AAABEST]

You're probably asking the wrong guy, as I was very confused today before posting this.

From what I understand, the feast for today is St. Joseph the Worker - it supercedes the normal 5th Sunday of Easter which had to do with Andrew and two other apostles. I'm not sure if this is a permanent change or just for 2005, but it seems as if this was the Mass given to everyone that I've heard from.

I realized today how little I understand about the liturgical calendar. I don't know if Mike can shed any light on this or not, but I've pinged him.

[Mike Fieschko]

From what I understand, the feast for today is St. Joseph the Worker - it supercedes the normal 5th Sunday of Easter which had to do with Andrew and two other apostles. I'm not sure if this is a permanent change or just for 2005

Well, here's my understanding, and if the freeper who told me once he knows quite a bit about the calendar, and whose name I've forgotten, chimes in, I'll appreciate it. (I learned from him not to go by the Fr Lasance. I think he said that in 1962, first, second, etc, feasts were abolished, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm 100% wrong about that.)

Pius XII established the May 1 Feast of St Joseph the Worker in the middle 1950s, and made it a first class feast. The Fifth Sunday After Easter is a second class feast, so St Joe takes precedence, but won't take precedence again until May 1 happens to be the Fifth Sunday After Easter.

I don't know if the simplification of things in 1962 changed any of this. In the Mass I attended today, Father said the St Joe Mass.