During the week of November 15-20, we will be offering the Votive Mass of the Five Wounds five times for the repose of the souls of the beloved dead of the parishioners and friends of St. Ignatius and St. Luke's.
The first four low Masses will be offered at 9 am in the chapel on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week. The concluding Solemn Mass of the series will be celebrated Saturday, November 20th in the historic church.
Taken directly from the Sarum Missal into the Divine Worship Missal, the 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.