Members of Vancouver’s Filipino community and others will honour and pray for victims of the Lapu Lapu festival attack at a memorial mass today, 40 days after the tragedy that left 11 people dead.

The date is significant in Filipino Catholic tradition as the end of a mourning period, and Rev. Francis Galvan says he expects the mass at St. Andrew’s Parish church in East Vancouver at 6 p.m. to be crowded.

Galvan, who is of Filipino heritage and is the pastor at Sacred Heart Parish in Delta, B.C., says it’s important for the healing process to be shared.

He also says it’s important to show solidarity with victims’ families by hearing their stories and mourning together.

Vancouver police say seven people injured in the attack remain in hospital as of Tuesday afternoon, with six in stable c

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