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SCRANTON Diocese of Scranton Bishop Joseph Bambera announced Thursday that the Sunday and Holy Day Mass obligation will go back into effect Aug. 15. The change will also occur in every Pennsylvania Diocese on the same date.
The Catholic Church requires attendance of Mass each Sunday, though for decades the obligation could also be fulfilled by attending certain Mass celebrations held Saturday, originally called an “anticipatory Mass.” When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Pennsylvania in March of 2020, prompting the state to order numerous closings to slow the spread of the virus, the Diocese of Scranton gave a dispensation from that obligation.