retreat are not computed in the time of vacation. In order to be absent from the parish for more than a week, however, a pastor is bound to inform the local ordinary. §3.† It is for the diocesan bishop to establish norms which see to it that during the absence of the pastor, a priest endowed with the necessary faculties provides for the care of the parish. CAN. 534 §1.† After a pastor has taken possession of his parish, he is obliged to apply a Mass for the people entrusted to him on each Sunday
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