Forty Hours Devotion 2018

CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS

(128 West 37^th Street, NYC)

 

FORTY HOURS EUCHARISTIC DEVOTION 2018

The Church of the Holy Innocents will start its annual Forty Hours Devotion this coming Friday, October 26, 2018.

    

First Day: The opening Mass will be on Friday, October 26, 2018 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 exposed, there will be a solemn 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. 

    

Second Day: On the second day, Saturday, October 27 at 1PM, we will have the traditional Votive Mass Pro Pace.

  

Third Day: The closing Mass will be on Sunday, October 28 at 10:30AM, which will also be the 1st class Feast of Christ the King. This closing Mass will be celebrated coram Sanctissimo (in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed throughout the entire Mass).

 

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. This Procession will end with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the Divine Praises, and the recitation of the Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

 

While in the Roman Catholic Church there are many Feasts and devotions throughout the year, the Forty Hours Devotion is always awaited and received with extreme joy. “Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament,” according to Fr. Faber, “is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it and group themselves there as satellites; for others celebrate His Mysteries; this is Himself.”

 

The Forty Hours Devotion is surrounded with three 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. 

 

All these petitions (for ourselves, for our neighbors, and for the entire Church) are expressed in detail in the beautiful Litanies of the Saints that are chanted as part of the opening and the closing Masses for the Forty Hours.

 

The very active and vibrant Church of the Holy Innocents (NYC) is still the only parish in the entire Archdiocese of NY that has the Forty Hours Devotion in its traditional form.

 

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.”