Sentence examples for days of obligation from inspiring English sources

Holy days of obligation were optional.

Catholics are expected to attend mass each Sunday and on various holy days of obligation designated by the church.

The bars are filled on the holy days of obligation for the Cleveland sports faithful, most of which involve the Browns.

Growing up in a lapsed but deep-seatedly Catholic household, it was an article of faith that the co-religionists to watch out for on Sundays and days of obligation were the converts.

They need good early schooling!" "Hunger of Memory," and Rodriguez's second book, "Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father" (1992), were much more, however, than political tracts.

For as the catechism teaches, in Paragraph 2185, "On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are to refrain from engaging in work or activities that hinder the worship owed to God, the joy proper to the Lord's Day, the performance of the works of mercy, and the appropriate relaxation of mind and body".

Since then, the Feast of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was observed on December 8 and is considered to be a Holy Day of Obligation (days where the faithful are obliged to participate in the Mass).

It was Toussaint, or All Saints' Day, a holy day of obligation for Catholics, and a national holiday in which the custom is to visit cemeteries and venerate the dead with flowers and more, especially with chrysanthemums, the flower associated with death and therefore not brought into the home.

You are required to attend Mass on a Holy Day of Obligation, even if it's not a Sunday.

Catholics are required to attend church on every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation (HDOs for the Byzantine Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh are listed in the tips).

If you do not attend Mass on Saturday evening or Sunday morning, or a Holy Day of Obligation, it is considered a mortal sin, unless you have a very good excuse for not attending.