CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS.
(128 West, 37th Street, NEW YORK CITY).
FORTY HOURS EUCHARISTIC DEVOTION 2019 **
Beginning: Friday, 25 October 2019, at 6 p.m.
The Church of The Holy Innocents, New York City,
will start its Annual Forty Hours Devotion
on Friday, 25 October 2019, at 6 p.m.
First Day:
The opening Mass will be on
Friday, 25 October 2019, at 6 p.m.,
and will be a Votive Mass of The Most Blessed Sacrament.
At the end of the opening Mass, The Blessed Sacrament will be Solemnly Exposed and there will be a
Eucharistic Procession inside the Church, and The Pange Lingua, The Litany of The Saints, and other special Psalms, Versicles, and Prayers, will be Chanted.
Second Day:
On the second day, Saturday, 26 October 2019, at 1 p.m.,
we will have The Traditional Votive Mass “Pro Pace”.
Third Day:
The closing Mass will be on Sunday, 27 October 2019,
at 10:30 a.m., which will also be The First-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 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 ” (Father Faber).
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;
3) Deliverance from
political, material and spiritual calamities.
All these three things are very much needed
in The Church and in Society, these days !
These Petitions (for ourselves, for our neighbours,
and for The Entire Church) are also 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.
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”.
** The very active and vibrant Church of The Holy Innocents (New York City) is still the only Parish
in the entire Archdiocese of New York that has
The Forty Hours Devotion in its Traditional Form.
Saint Hugh of Cluny, Pray for us !
Visit our Web-Site: sthughofcluny.org
