Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Wan Chai plans to hold its usual annual November Mass for the dead on November 26, the first anniversary of the Tai Po fire. The Mass is part of the church’s Month of the Dead observance.
The parish priest said the service would not be specially changed to focus on the fire. If people wished to pray for those who died, he said, the church would pray for them.
At a separate service on November 2, cathedral pastors took turns reading names that congregants had submitted of people who had died during the year, including the 168 people who died in the fire.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Tai Po had planned a memorial Mass for November 15. It later announced that the scheduled service would instead be a Mass praying for all who had died during the year.