Hello – I am awake again after my brief hibernation. I hope all my readers have had a very happy Christmas.
Now then, about this Epiphany business. If a Holy Day of Obligation is to be moved to the Sunday, it is reasonable to assume that this means the nearest Sunday. The nearest Sunday to Thursday 6th January 2011 is Sunday 9th January.
Here is the press release from the English and Welsh Bishops at the time of the original decision, in 2006, to move the Solemnities of the Lord. Rather cleverly, it does not say “the nearest Sunday” but simply “Sunday”.
Shall we assume that there is a very good pastoral reason for bringing the Feast forward to the day after New Year’s Day?
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