{"id":6918,"date":"2025-04-23T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2025-05-02T05:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:11:18","slug":"pope-francis-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/2025\/04\/23\/pope-francis-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Mass for Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memorial Mass for Pope Francis<\/h2>\n

Thursday, May 1, 5:30 p.m.<\/h3>\n

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It is customary for Catholic Churches around the world to celebrate a Memorial Mass for a pope during the Novemdiales period. For Pope Francis, Novemdiales begins on Saturday, April 26. It is a period of nine days, beginning with the day of his funeral, in which a cardinal chosen by the late pope will preside over a Requiem Mass in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica. The day of a pope’s funeral, Saturday, April 27, for Pope Francis, is the first day of Novemdiales. Masses around the world are offered for the repose of the Pope’s soul during this period and a Novena<\/a> can be prayed as well.<\/p>\n

Saint Matthew is holding a special Memorial Mass for Pope Francis on Thursday, May 1, at 5:30 p.m. <\/strong>We hope you can join us.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the Diocese of Nashville is holding a Memorial Mass for Pope Francis on Monday, April 28, at 5:30 p.m.<\/strong> at the Cathedral of the Incarnation. This Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Spalding, more than a dozen diocesan priests, several deacons, the Knights of Columbus, and the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[513,515,510,210,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6919,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions\/6919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmatthewtn.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}