2007-11-23 03:29:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanksgiving is an obligatory day for me to feast on some mighty fine food, drink some good liquor and watch some lousy football.
2007-11-26 10:56:12 · answer #1 · answered by timbers 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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Is Thanksgiving a holy day of obligation for Catholics?
2015-08-18 19:24:22 · answer #2 · answered by Arlee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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According to the tradition of ancient Judaism, a day began at sunset and ended the following sunset. This practice comes from first account of creation in the first chapter of Genesis. When Moses gave the Israelites the Law and proscribed the days of worship, those days began at sunset. Leviticus 23:5: The Passover of the LORD falls on the fourteenth day of the first month, at the evening twilight. Because most of the early Christians were Jews, the early Christian communities celebrated the mysteries of the Faith within this ancient practice. Vigil masses on the evening before a Sunday or other Holy Day therefore fulfills your obligation to participate in Mass. In other words you can go to either the Vigil Mass or the morning Mass. You do not have to go to both. With love in Christ.
2016-04-01 00:29:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving is a secular holiday, not a religious one. However, neither God nor the Church is going to object to a Catholic who wishes to make Mass attendance part of their Thanksgiving Day tradition.
2007-11-26 04:28:49 · answer #4 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
But many Catholics voluntarily attend Mass on Thanksgiving.
With love in Christ.
2007-11-25 17:03:40 · answer #5 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Growing up in largely Catholic SW Louisiana, we often went to mass anyway, as a show of thanks for our blessings, but it has never been a holiday where you had to go or else it was a sin.
That's what's so cool about Thanksgiving: you don't have to go to church, give gifts, or decorate. You just cook and eat and remember what your thankful for.
2007-11-23 03:32:31 · answer #6 · answered by Acorn 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving Day is a holy day for Christians only (aka Protestants), not European Catholics.
Thanksgiving Day was invented by American Christians (aka Protestants).
http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/Holidays/celebrate/thanksgi.html
2007-11-23 03:39:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Vigil Mass on Thursday is mainly for those who work on the actual day, in this case, on Friday and cannot come to Mass during that time. It is the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul. Go to one or the other, you don't have to go to both, since they both count for the same Day of Obligation. The observance begins in the evening the day prior to the day observed. (Thursday evening begins the observance for the Day of Obligation on Friday.) That is why it is called a Vigil.
2016-03-12 20:55:46 · answer #8 · answered by Judith 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's not a religious Holiday.
2007-11-25 20:38:40 · answer #9 · answered by Big Dawg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope
2007-11-23 03:34:25 · answer #10 · answered by Yogini 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋