Cardinal Cupich has issued a decree granting a dispensation from the holy day obligation for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception this year. This decree establishes that the obligation linked to the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which has been transferred to Monday, Dec. 9, is hereby suppressed in the Archdiocese of Chicago. No member of the Catholic faithful is obligated to attend Mass on Dec. 9, 2024. This dispensation is in keeping with canon 87, §1 of the Code of Canon Law, which establishes that a “diocesan bishop, whenever he judges that it contributes to their spiritual good, is able to dispense the faithful from universal and particular disciplinary laws issued for his territory or his subjects by the supreme authority of the Church.”