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Catholic funeral service at St Mary Immaculate Church, Charing Cross. A Catholic funeral is carried out in accordance with the prescribed rites of the Catholic Church.Such funerals are referred to in Catholic canon law as "ecclesiastical funerals" and are dealt with in canons 1176–1185 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, [1] and in canons 874–879 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. [2]
Memorials are either obligatory or optional. The rules governing the celebration of memorials, whether obligatory or optional, are identical. The only difference is precisely that an optional memorial need not be observed, and, with the limitations indicated for the second part of Advent and for Lent, there is the possibility of celebrating instead the Mass either of another memorial assigned ...
Requiem for Bishop Cirilo Almario, in the Mass of Paul VI at Minor Basilica and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Malolos, Bulacan, 2016 The Requiem, in the Tridentine Mass, celebrated annually for Louis XVI and victims of the French Revolution, in the crypt of Strasbourg Cathedral, 2013 Requiem Mass for Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at St. Catherine's Cathedral, St. Petersburg ...
The placement of the Book of the Gospels by Archbishop Piero Marini (left) and Konrad Krajewski (right) upon the casket of Pope John Paul II, a typical act during the funeral of a Catholic bishop. As the Mass of Requiem began, the doors of St. Peter's Basilica were locked with dignitaries asked to stand outside the church.
This office, as it exists in the Roman Rite up to and including the current 1960 Roman Breviary, is composed of First Vespers (known as The Placébo from the first word of its opening antiphon) Matins and Lauds (traditional known together as The Dírige from the opening antiphon of the first nocturn of Matins), and the Mass (known as The Requiem from the first word of its proper opening chant ...
The Memorial Acclamation is an acclamation sung or recited by the people after the institution narrative of the Eucharist. [1] They were common in ancient eastern liturgies [ 1 ] and have more recently been introduced into Roman Catholic , Lutheran , Anglican and Methodist liturgies.
The Coptic Orthodox Church has a very sumptuously printed set of their books, edited by Gladios Labib, published at Cairo (Katamãrus, 1900–1902; Euchologion, 1904; Funeral Service, 1905). These books were first grouped and arranged for the Coptic Catholic Church by Raphael Tuki, and printed at Rome in the eighteenth century.
"Libera me" ("Deliver me") is a responsory sung in the Office of the Dead in the Catholic Church, and at the absolution of the dead, a service of prayers for the dead said beside the coffin immediately after the Requiem Mass and before burial. The text asks God to have mercy upon the deceased person at the Last Judgment.