Since the feast of the Immaculate Conception (Dec 8) falls this year on a Saturday. Today my rural local parish My pastor comes from SriLanka (Ceylon)is holding a 5:30 pm vigil mass for the feast of the Immaculate Conception and an 8am mass on Saturday because of the regular Sunday vigil mass said at 5:30 pm on Saturday will not apply to Our Lady’s feast.
Frankly I expect both both masses to be lightly attended. I’m lucky to have a priest let alone have masses said on what were Holy Days of Obligation. Immaculate Conception was the name of the church and grammar school (12 Franciscan sisters) I attended while a kid in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood. The school has since been closed the parish disbanded and the church rededicated and given to the Holy Family religious order.
Holy Days of Obligation.
HMMMmmm...