“The only reason why he wouldn’t is if it fell on a Sunday, as it did this year.”
The only priests who didn’t commemorate him this past Sunday were Latin ones and perhaps the Maronites, though about them I don’t know. All the other churches commemorate the saints whose feast day it is on Sunday at the close of the liturgies.
“However, the whole “optional memorial” issue for St. Nicholas glosses over one detail- what priest in his right mind ISN’T going to remember St. Nicholas on December 6?”
Yeah, right. That’s probably why Paul VI had no problem demoting him.
The Sunday feast of the Resurrection trumps all saints' feast days in the Latin calendar. You probably knew that.
Yeah, right. That’s probably why Paul VI had no problem demoting him.
I have no idea why Paul VI made it an optional feast. He did a lot of thing willy nilly. As I said, I'm a traditional Catholic. Even on the pre-1969 sanctoral calendar, St. Nicholas wouldn't have been commemorated because of the Sunday feast of the Resurrection.