said a votive Mass corresponding to his intention. The great number of forms provided in medieval Missals furnished one for any possible intention. Indeed, it seems that at one time a priest normally said a votive Mass whenever he celebrated. John Beleth in the thirteenth century describes a series of votive Masses once said (fuit quoddam tempus) each day in the week: on Sunday, of the Holy Trinity; Monday, for charity; Tuesday, for wisdom; Wednesday, of the Holy Ghost; Thursday, of the Angels; Friday, of the Cross; Saturday, of the Blessed Virgin (Explic. div. offic., 51). This completely ignores the ecclesiastical year. But there was a general sentiment that, at least on the chief feasts, even private Masses should conform to the Office of the day. The Feast of the Holy Trinity began as a votive Mass to be said on any Sunday after Pentecost, when there was no feast. Suffrage Mass The Suffrage Mass is a particular type of Votive Mass in which one or more Roman Catholic baptized believers ask the celebrating priest to offer a Mass to God in favour of the salvation of one or more souls temporarily living in Purgatory. While the Holy Mass is always only offered to God, it can also be dedicated to one or more Roman Catholic saint in order to ask his or her intercessory prayer to God. The Council of Trent stated the belief in the intercession of saints as a canon every Roman Catholic is obliged to believe. For the Roman Catholic doctrine, any saint may pray God to intercede with His divine grace in favour of any living human soul, but within a hierarchical order of intercessory power: first Jesus Christ, by way of Mass (worship), secondly the Blessed Virgin Mary (hyperdulia), thirdly Saint Joseph (protodulia), the other saints, and lastly, the hierarchy of angels. The pious practice of the Suffrage Mass is also founded on the belief in the existence of Purgatory. For the Roman Catholic faith, at the time of death there is a separation of the soul form the earthly body. The soul endures the particular judgment of God Who is Omniscient and therefore cannot fail in His judgement. The judgement is based on the balance of personal sins to merits toward salvation acquired during the earthly life of the individual soul. The soul cannot do anything to improve its afterlife condition after death.