If you have one of my planners (and even if you don’t) you might be confused about the Feast of the Immaculate Conception this year. I have created an errata page for the planner because I did not get all the details right.
The details are this:
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is listed as being December 9th this year and not December 8th. This is correct for the Ordinary Form of the Liturgy but not the Extraordinary Form.
The feast is moved in the Ordinary Form as per the Universal Norms on the Liturgical and the General Roman calendar which says:
“Because of its special importance, the celebration of Sunday gives way only to solemnities and feasts of the Lord: indeed, the Sundays of Advent, Lent, and Easter have precedence over all Feasts of the Lord and over all solemnities. In fact the solemnities occurring on these Sundays are transferred to the following Monday.”
In the Extraordinary Form the guidelines are thus:
“Sunday I Class takes precedence over all feast in occurrence.
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, however, takes precedence over the Sunday of Advent on which it falls.”
Also, on the monthly view of the planner it is listed as a Holy Day of Obligation for the 9th. It is not.*
The USCCB calendar confirms this here: http://www.usccb.org/about/divine-worship/liturgical-calendar/upload/2014cal.pdf
*If December 8th had been a Monday, the obligation would remain. However, as it
falls on a Sunday this year and is transferred to Monday, the obligation is removed.
