Forty Hours Devotion at Holy Innocents Starts This Friday

The Church of the Holy Innocents in New York will start its annual Forty Hours Devotion THIS COMING Friday, October 23^rd, 2020.

First Day: The opening Mass will be on Friday, October 23^rd at 6PM, and it will be a Votive Mass of the Most Blessed Sacrament. 

At the end of the opening Mass, the Blessed Sacrament will be solemnly exposed: there will be a Eucharistic procession inside the church, and the Pange lingua, the Litany of the Saints, and some other special psalms, versicles, and prayers will be chanted.  

–The church doors will be closed and locked at 9PM and only those who have signed up for the night adoration will remain in the church keeping vigil before Our Lord until 6AM.

Second Day: On the second day, Saturday, October 24^th at 1PM, we will have the traditional Votive Mass Pro Pace.

–The church doors will be closed and locked at 9PM and only those who have signed up for the night adoration will remain in the church keeping vigil before Our Lord until 6AM.

Third Day: The closing Mass will be on Sunday, October 25^th at 10:30AM, which will also be the 1^st class Feast of Christ the King. This closing Mass will be celebrated coram Sanctissimo (in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed). 

At the end of the closing Mass, the Litany of the Saints and other special psalms and prayers will be chanted and we will have another Procession of the Blessed Sacrament inside the church.

The Forty Hours Devotion is surrounded with 3 special dimensions: 

1) The protection from evil and temptation; 

2) Reparation for our own sins and for the poor souls in purgatory; and 

3) Deliverance from political, material and spiritual calamities.

This beautiful devotion was permanently established by Pope Clement VIII “in order that day and night the faithful might appease their Lord by prayer before the Blessed Sacrament solemnly exposed, imploring there His divine mercy.“