On November 8 and November 14-16 at 9 am we will offer four low Masses, and on November 18 at 10 am a final solemn Mass, of our annual series of five Votive Masses of the Five Wounds for the repose of the souls of our beloved dead.
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.