Yeah I'm pretty sure the response you'll get from the Office of Worship will be to do Holy Family. However, you could ask for permission from the Ordinary to transfer your Patronal Feast to another date, like the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Feast of your Patron is an important date and shouldn't just disappear.

I had been under the impression that a patronal feast assumed, for the relevant parishes, the rank of solemnity and took precedence over all else. I do stand to be corrected by someone who knows better. This is nice to know.

So it appears that if St. Stephen is the principal patron of the city of Vienna, his liturgical commemoration in that city would rank as no. 4a on the Table of Precedence of Liturgical Days and would have precedence over the feast of the Holy Family. If, on the other hand, St. Stephen is the principal patron of the archdiocese of Vienna, but not of the city itself, his liturgical commemoration in that archdiocese would rank as no. 8a on the Table of Precedence and would not have precedence over the feast of the Holy Family.

And, what, then, does that say about St Stephen?

It says that having him as the principal patron of a city or state outranks having him as the principal patron of a diocese. But, in either case, the Church's concern is about the liturgical commemoration of the saint, not civic celebrations in his honor.

The verdict of the Office of Worship is that our Patron outranks Holy Family.

Fr. Krisman - where do you see this Feast falling, categorically, on the Table of Precedence? 8e?

@a-f-hawkins: If your suspicion is borne out and the rank of St. Stephen has been raised to "solemnity" in the particular calendar either of Austria or the archdiocese of Vienna, that liturgical day would have precedence over the feast of the Holy Family when the latter occurs on December 26. I searched the internet last night and found several listings of the Roman calendar in German, even some for Austria, but I only found St. Stephen listed with the rank of "Fest," (feast), and never "Hochfest" (solemnity). Perhaps someone else can find the listing which supports your suspicion; I could not.

@bkenny27: St. John, Apostle and Evangelist (December 27) already has the rank of feast in the General Roman Calendar. That is category 7 on the Table of Precedence of Liturgical Days. Had St. John's Day only been an obligatory memorial in the General Roman Calendar, raising its rank to feast for a parish which has him as principal patron would place it in category 8e on the Table of Precedence. According to the GNLYC no feast of a saint ever takes precedence over a feast of the Lord, which Holy Family is.

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Wouldn't it just be easier if the rubrics were changed to revert back to the old practice of having multiple collects? Holy Family with the Commemoration of St. John.

Well, sure, but then mass might last more than 57 minutes.

Well, sure, but then mass might last more than 57 minutes.

We Russians can have multiple feasts commemorated in one Liturgy. But even when there's only one that liturgy's gonna take more than an hour.

In case it might help, here is the Latin text from the MR2002:

4. Sollemnitates propriæ, nempe:
a) Sollemnitas Patroni principalis loci seu oppidi aut civitatis.
b) Sollemnitas dedicationis et anniversarii dedicationis ecclesiæ propriæ.
c) Sollemnitas Tituli ecclesiæ propriæ.
d) Sollemnitas aut Tituli,
aut Fundatoris,
aut Patroni principalis Ordinis seu Congregationis.

Mea culpa. (Or ICEL's culpa.)

So, should a parish's patronal feast rank as an 8e? If so, that seems counter to the common practice of transferring a parish feast day to a Sunday during OT.

Maybe I'm cynical, but I think "want" might be too strong to describe the level of devotion in most parishes for their patrons. It's more like:

Parishioners don't object to honoring their patron annually....

There being a nuanced distinction between title and patron - which are often, but not always, the same (though a difference seems to be less common in the countries like the USA where Catholic churches don't tend to have layers of multiple dedications in successive rebuildings) . . . .