Far back in the last century when I was a little girl in Catholic school we
were told that priests have an exemption that enables them to say the three
masses on Christmas day. In those distant pre-Vatican II days, parishes
were more fully stocked. In any case, the story I was given was that the
prohibition had to do with the fasting rules for communion which were then
in effect. However, thinking about it now, I suspect that it was a response
to the criticisms of Martin Luther and his cohort of "mass priests" who
simply recited one mass after another to fulfill obligations to patrons who
had subsidized masses for their souls.
Jo Ann
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From: Stefaan Vermeire <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 7:45 AM
Subject: Three Masses
>Dear List Members,
>
>
>Who knowes the origin of the three Masses in the Roman Rite at the Holy
>Feast of Christ's Birth? Is this not a contradiction of the rule which do
>not allowed to celebrate more than one Mass on the same day at the same
>altar by the same priest?
>And this is practised also in the Sarum Rite?
>
>Greetings,
>Stefaan R.W. VERMEIRE.
>
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