Q: This coming Friday, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, we have a burial Mass scheduled. KIndly refresh my memory, in this particular circumstance – readings of the solemnity, or from the funeral Lectionary? Orations of the Mass? Preface?
Thanks for your help!
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A: One reason I wrote Sacred Times was to find quick answers to questions like this one, so I checked there myself to see if I could find the response. I wrote that a funeral Mass may take place on a solemnity, as long as it’s not a solemnity of obligation, and I cited GIRM 380.
I just doublechecked, and that info is correct.
So, yes, you may celebrate a complete funeral Mass—readings, orations, preface, the works.