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These feasts can be celebrated on Sunday

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Certain high-ranking feasts in the Church's calendar can be celebrated on Sundays, while others are bumped to the next day.

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In the Catholic Church, Sundays are usually celebrated according to the season of the liturgical year, such as Ordinary Time.

However, on certain occasions the seasonal Sunday celebration is replaced by a feast.

This doesn't happen often, but it can when the following criteria are met.

    To give a few examples, here are a few feasts and solemnities that can be celebrated on a Sunday.

      There are others not listed here, but this gives a brief survey of the various feasts in the Church's year that are on fixed days. When that day is on a Sunday, it can replace the typical seasonal celebration.