The Catholic Prayer Book and Manual of Meditations/Feasts of Obligation

FEASTS OF OBLIGATION

IN IRELAND.

All Sundays in the year.

Nativity and Circumcision of our Lord.

Epiphany and Ascension of our Lord.

Solemnity of Corpus Christi.

Annunciation and Assumption of the B.V.M.

St. Patrick, Patron of Ireland.

Feast of SS. Peter and Paul.

Solemnity of All Saints.


FASTING DAYS ON ONE MEAL.

Wednesdays and Fridays in Advent.

Quarter Tense or Ember Days.

Days of Lent, except Sundays.

Vigils of Nativity and Pentecost.

Vigil of SS. Peter and Paul.

Vigil of Assumption of B.V.M.

Vigil of all Saints.

DAYS OF ABSTINENCE FROM FLESH MEAT.

On Fridays throughout the year. The whole time of Lent, unless otherwise allowed by the Bishop.

THE PRECEPT OF FULFILLING EASTER DUTY

(in one's own parish) in Ireland, where it is so permitted, extends to the Octave of SS. Peter and Paul.


INDULGENCES.

A Plenary Indulgence may be obtained by the faithful of Ireland on the first Sunday of each month, and on the following principal Feasts. by complying with the usual conditions:—The Nativity of our Lord; Circumcision; Epiphany; Resurrection; Ascension; Whit-Sunday; Corpus Christi; the five principal Feasts oi the B. V. Mary, being the [feasts 1]Conception, [feasts 1]Nativity, Annunciation, [feasts 1]Purification, and Assumption; and on All Saints. Also on Trinity Sunday, St. Peter and St. Paul, and St. Patrick, and on any day during the Octaves of these three Feasts.

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Or on the Sunday immediately following the three Feasts thus marked.