I see on CWN that progress is apparently being made on fixing a common date for Easer to be celebrated by the various Christian denominations. One cannot help remembering how at one time celebrating Easter at different times in different churches was held to be a scandal.
We might get it right at Easter, but how about other times?
I recently had a 'phone call from someone in Scotland who was going to be working in Luton during the week and he wanted to know when Masses were on Thursday for the Ascension. Unlike Scotland, England and Wales no longer celebrate the Ascension on the fortieth day after Easter, so this poor fellow missed out on both counts. He didn't get it on Thursday because he was here and didn't get it on Sunday because he was back home!
There might be logic in it somewhere, but it escapes me.
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Some people are against moving feast days to Sunday, because it was never like that before. But I think there are two significant reasons not to transfer the Holy Day to Sunday especially in the case of the Ascension of Our Lord.
1) I think where ever we have elements of union with other Christian churches we should maintain them.
2) The origin of the novena is the nine days from the Ascension to Pentecost. In light of such a hallowed devotion I think Ascension Thursday should be maintained. IMHO
I read somewhere that moving the feast days brought us in line with other countries.
France still celebrates Ascension Day on the Thursday and it is a public holiday. If it were changed there would be strong criticism even from the non-practising Catholics as a change would mean losing their holiday!
Assumption day too is still kept on August 15th. I see Christmas day next year falls on a Saturday - I wonder if there are any plans to move it to Sunday?!
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