Obligation, DAYS OF, holidays on which faithful Catholics are bound to abstain from servile work and to hear mass. These are, for England and Wales, Circumcision, Epiphany, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi, SS. Peter and Paul, Assumption, All Saints, Christmas Day. Scotland adds to these St Andrew, and Ireland St Patrick and the Annunciation.
Obligation, DAYS OF
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