Many thanks to everyone for your prayers and well-wishes. We are actually doing better than I would have expected.
This is kind of urgent --- in that it is just before 10:30 pm here and I would like to get the novena started today, if I can --- but does anyone have a copy of a fully traditional, pre-V2 approved, novena for the faithful departed?
You can simply post it here, and I'll copy it over to an Open Office docuмent, to use the next nine days.
I have found this and that online, but it's not clear what is traditional, and what is not, and I want to make sure this gets done right. The most "traditional" thing I found was actually from the website of an Episcopal congregation.
If anyone has access to such a novena, I'd be much obliged.
Thanks so much.