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Originally posted by adduncan
Not according to my liturgical calendar, it isn't. 
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Is that new? It was a holy day of obligation when I was little. I always had to cut my trick-or-treating short because my parents HAD TO go to the 5:15pm vigil Mass (the 7:15pm Mass, which all the other trick-or-treating-aged kids and their parents went to, wasn't good enough for them).
I know the Catholic Church recently ruled that if a holy day of obligation falls on a Saturday or Monday, your attendance at Sunday Mass counts for both. All Saints' Day is a Monday this year - is that what's going on?
I also know that it's up to the bishops in each country to decide what the holy days of obligation are, as long as you observe Christmas and a Marian holiday. I do not believe All Saints' Day is a holy day of obligation in Canada, for instance.
-- aephi alum, who spent way too many years in Catholic school and studying her catechism only to become Jewish