We will be offering prayers for our beloved dead throughout the month of November, but particularly during the week of November 14-19, when we will be offering the Votive Mass of the Five Wounds five times for the repose of their souls. Join us at 9 am Monday–Wednesday November 14-16 and Friday November 18 for Masses of the Five Wounds, and then at 10 am on Saturday November 19th for the closing Mass.
Taken directly from the Sarum Missal into the Divine Worship Missal, the Votive Mass of the Five Wounds, whose origin legend contained the assurance that any soul for whom five Masses of the Wounds were celebrated would be freed from his purgation, was during the Middle Ages one of the most requested masses to be specified in wills requesting prayer for the deceased.