Easter duty

She wishes me to make my easter duty.

"And well you should, a man who neglects his Easter duty year after year.

It was held during Lent so the industry's Catholics could also make their Easter duty.

I do urge you to think about doing your Easter duty, Mrs Flood.

Pay your Easter duty.

'So you missed your last Easter duty?'

Several of them admitted that they merely "did their Easter duty"--went to confession and mass but once a year.

But every Catholic is supposed to make his Easter duty, to go to confession and take communion before Easter.

Now, as Finnegan had been a sinner since arriving at Freetown, and as it was already Passion Sunday, he wanted to make his Easter Duty and change his ways.

"I've missed my Easter duty four times, skipped Mass 208 times, mocked my father six times..." He worked his way through the Commandments, going so fast he could hardly make sense of it himself.

Paschal Tide was the period during which every member of the faithful who has attained the year of discretion was bound by the positive law of the Church to receive Holy Communion (Easter duty).

Most of the 1,300 congregation members were disqualified from voting because members of the congregation who had not performed their Easter duties in 1937 were barred under church rules, leaving the election "largely in the hands of the enemy."

From being a daily Mass-goer and receiver of Communion, I was so stricken with disgust at this hypocritical turnabout and disrespect for my early spiritual guide, Pope Pius X, I gave up my religion after making my Easter duty in 1967.