In the USA, Ascension Thursday is celebrated on its proper 40th day (Thursday, May 14, 2026) in the ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Omaha, Philadelphia, and the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Catholics in these areas are obligated to attend Mass on that day, unlike most of the U.S. where it is moved to the following Sunday
My most humble editorial:
Today on Hilton Head Island, I am celebrating Holy Family Church’s 8 am Mass, not for Ascension Thursday but for the Feast of Saint Matthias!
Hilton Head is a tourist Mecca!
Thus we will have Catholics from the northeast who will come to Mass to fulfill their Holy Day of Obligation for Ascension Thursday except here it is not Ascension Thursday, this Sunday is Ascension Thursday!
Then these northeast tourists will leave to go home on Saturday where Sunday is Sunday, the 7th Sunday after Easter and thus NOT Ascension Thursday. Thus they will have missed celebrating Ascension Thursday altogether even though they were at Mass on Thursday and Sunday!
And they say the FSSPX is the biggest problem for the Church—yes, in an alternate universe!
2 comments:
I guess I have not come upon this latest Novus Ordo idiocy. In my parish in Indiana, we are celebrating Ascension Thursday today!
What to say, Fr., the RCC will compromise except when it won't compromise.
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