month's mind

American  

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

1. a Requiem Mass said on the thirtieth day after a person's death or burial.

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month's mind British  

noun

1. RC Church a Mass celebrated in remembrance of a person one month after his death

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Etymology

Origin of month's mind

1425–75; late Middle English moneth mynde

Example Sentences

Later, the funeral director will lay a floral wreath on a grave at Forthill for a family who are not currently allowed to do it themselves but wanted to mark a Month's Mind, a Catholic Church mass celebrated in remembrance of a person a month after their death.

From BBC

I was younger than she, and I believe I may say, without Vanity, I had some other Advantages over her; so that the Old Spark had a Month's mind to me; and I, partly to plague her, and partly to divert my self, received all his Addresses with a great deal of complaisance.

From Project Gutenberg

I've a month's mind to go with him.

From Project Gutenberg

This funereal rite was then called “the month’s mind,” and which, at least for that short period, prolonged the memory of the departed.

From Project Gutenberg

The Alderman, however, seems to have planned a kind of economy in his “month’s mind,” for not only was the repose of his soul in question, but also “the souls of all above written”—and these were a bead-roll of all the branches of Fabyan’s family.

From Project Gutenberg