Six-week office
The six weeks office (also six weeks soul office ) is a holy mass in the Catholic Church , which in some places traditionally is celebrated six weeks after the death or the day of the church funeral of a person in his memory.
The time span is based on a memorial of the dead on the 30th, later on the 40th day after death, which was already held as a funeral meal in ancient times . In Christianity, remembrance is celebrated in the form of a holy mass ( office of the soul ) and understood as a purification aid for the poor souls in purgatory . In the Latin Church and in the Eastern Church , the 40th day is still an important date for commemorating the individual who died. The six-week office marks the end of the first phase of mourning for the bereaved and refers to the Christian hope that the deceased person lives in the peace of God.
In Switzerland , the Catholic Church has a comparable tradition of the so-called thirtieth , a memorial service to commemorate the deceased around the 30th day after death.
The first annual memory (also year , annual office or annual memory), which is also celebrated in a holy mass one year after death, closes the traditional year of mourning .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.erzbistum-koeln.de/news/Sechswochenamt-erinnert-an-die-Verbigung-Meisners-zur-Gottesmutter/
- ^ Jürgen Bärsch and Ludwig Steindorff : Memory of the Dead . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 10 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, Sp. 126 f .
- ↑ Thirtieth . Catholic Church Thalwil. Retrieved August 24, 2020.