When did the holy day celebrated on August 15 by Catholics become part of church law?

Question

My church recently had a vote on whether we should be required to attend mass on holy days. They said this was the newest holy day. How can an infallible pope change something like this from a previous infallible pope?

Answer 1

Catholics believe in the assumption of the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven after her death.

John 19:26-27 states:

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple (John) took her into his home.

The minutes of the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in 431 C.E. indicate that four or six years after the death and resurrection of Jesus, John and the Virgin Mary came together to Ephesus, and for a short time stayed in the building, a section of which is now under Church of the Virgin Mary today.

Later John moved the Virgin Mary to a house he had prepared for her on Bulbul Dagi (Bulbul Hill). She lived there until the end of her earthly life.

St. John of Damascus (P. G., I, 96) later wrote:

St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon (451), made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who wished to possess the body of the Mother of God, that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened, upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven.

The Pope just made official what Catholics have believed for over a thousand years.

http://www.turktour.com/virgin_mary.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Papal infalibilty only applies to matters of faith and morals.
No pope has ever retracted an infalible teaching of another pope.

The Feast of the Assumption has been a holy day of obligation for a long time....

Your church has no right to 'vote' on whether you are required to attend Mass on Holy Days. Such a vote would contradict Church teaching- therefore is heretical.

The Holy Days of Obligation in the United States are:
January 1st- Mary, Mother of God
Annunciation- March 25th (moved in 2008 because it is during the octave of Easter)
the Ascension- Thursday in most Diocese, moved to the following Sunday in some at the discretion of the Bishop
Assumption- August 15
All Souls Day- November 1st
Immaculate Conception- Dec 8
Christmas- Dec 25

Note- Easter is not included because it is ALWAYS a Sunday, and you should go to Mass anyway.

In the United States, Holy Days are NOT obligatory IF they fall on Saturday or Monday...with the exception of the feast of the Immaculate Conception, because Mary under that title is the patroness of the United States.

Answer 3

The Feats of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been a Holy Day of the church since around the 5th century.

The local Bishop has the authority to modify or combine the observance, but no priest or layman, or group of laymen does.

And since you seem to know little or nothing about this matter, I seriously doubt that you're Catholic at all.

Answer 4

August 15th has always been the Feast of the Assumption. There's nothing new about this - it has been so for centuries and centuries. Even the Orthodox observe something similar - the Feast of the Dormition (the falling asleep of Mary.)

There's nothing "recent" about this (unless you consider a thousand and a half years ago recent.)

Answer 5

Another make believe Catholic with made up lies.