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A Requiem (Latin: rest) or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Latin: Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal.
The origin of mourning and praying for the dead for 30 days can be traced back to the Old Testament, where the Jews mourned for Moses for 30 days according to Deuteronomy 34:8 The history of the "Thirty Mass" practice goes back to the year 590 A.D. in St. Andrew's Monastery in Rome, founded by Gregory the Great in his own family villa around 570.
A Funeral Mass is a form of Mass for the Dead or Requiem Mass, so called because of the first word of what in earlier forms of the Roman Rite was the only Introit (entrance antiphon) allowed: Réquiem ætérnam dona eis, Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat eis. (Eternal rest give to them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them).
Music for the Requiem Mass is any music that accompanies the Requiem, or Mass for the Dead, in the Catholic Church. This church service has inspired hundreds of compositions, including settings by Victoria , Mozart , Berlioz , Verdi , Fauré , Dvořák , Duruflé and Britten .
In the Masses for the dead, this antiphon is sung in procession on the way from the final blessing of the corpse in church to the graveyard where burial takes place. The Gregorian melody for In paradisum is in the Mixolydian mode .
This Catholic doctrine is found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 1030-1032:. All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.
Page from the manuscript of the Requiem: In paradisum, m. 413, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890.. The choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large wor
"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.