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Holy days of obligation 2019 Australia

Besides every Sunday, the Church in Australia keeps two holy days of obligation. In 2019, two of them bind on a weekday: Catholics go to Mass that day, or at a vigil Mass the evening before.

Not holy days of obligation in Australia

  • The Epiphany: on the Sunday between 2 and 8 January.
  • The Ascension: on the Seventh Sunday of Easter.
  • The Body and Blood of Christ: on the Sunday after Trinity Sunday.
  • Mary, the Holy Mother of God, Saint Joseph, Saints Peter and Paul, All Saints and the Immaculate Conception: not days of obligation.

How the rules work

Canon law names ten holy days for the whole Church and lets each bishops’ conference move some of them to a Sunday or lift the obligation, so the list differs from country to country. Some conferences also move a holy day that falls on a Saturday or a Monday to the Sunday beside it, or keep the feast but lift the obligation that year.

When the calendar itself moves a holy day — the Immaculate Conception off a Sunday of Advent, Saint Joseph off a Sunday of Lent or out of Holy Week — the Dicastery for Divine Worship ruled in January 2025 that the obligation does not move with it.

Dioceses can grant their own dispensations in a particular year; your parish will say. See also the liturgical year 2019 and the ranks of celebrations.

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