Liturgical Note
The Catholic Church does not celebrate the Feast of St. Patrick on March 17 when that date falls during Holy Week, as it does this year. The normal thing to do, apparently, is to move the liturgical celebration to the first available day after Easter, but that would push it out to April 1 this year. A number of dioceses have taken differing approaches on how they’re approaching the feast day this year. It’s worth noting that moving the date up to before Holy Week did take Vatican permission. Fortunately, this sort of thing doesn’t happen again till 2160, so we will only have to worry about St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Friday during Lent between now and then.
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