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Eternal rest, grant unto him/her (them), O L ORD, ℟. And let perpetual light shine upon him/her (them). ℣. May he/she (they) rest in peace. ℟. Amen. The translation used by English-speaking Lutherans is: [4] ℣. Rest eternal grant him/her, O L ORD; ℟. and let light perpetual shine upon him/her. ℣. May he/she rest in peace. ℟. Amen.
Rest in peace (R.I.P.), [1] a phrase from the Latin requiescat in pace (Ecclesiastical Latin: [rekwiˈeskat in ˈpatʃe]), is sometimes used in traditional Christian services and prayers, such as in the Catholic, [2] Lutheran, [3] Anglican, and Methodist [4] denominations, to wish the soul of a decedent eternal rest and peace.
The Mass and its settings draw their name from the introit of the liturgy, which begins with the words Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine (Latin for "Eternal rest grant them, O Lord"), which is cited from 2 Esdras—requiem is the accusative singular form of the Latin noun requies, "rest, repose". [2]
give him/her (them) eternal rest, O Lord: From the Christian prayer Eternal Rest, said for the dead. Source of the term requiem, meaning the Mass for the Dead or a musical setting thereof. requiescat in pace (R.I.P.) let him/her rest in peace: Or "may he/she rest in peace". A benediction for the dead. Often inscribed on tombstones or other ...
The priest then recites a prayer for the dead person, one version of which is a variant of the second of the two "prayers of absolution" mentioned above. In the official English translation it asks: "Forgive whatever sins he/she committed through human weakness and in your goodness grant him/her eternal rest."
May choirs of angels receive you and with Lazarus, once (a) poor (man), may you have eternal rest." The melody of In paradisum 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.
Grant them eternal rest. Amen. See also. Dies irae; Requiem (Berlioz) Requiem (Dvořák) Requiem (Ligeti) Requiem (Mozart) Requiem (Verdi) References
Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. A hymn, O God, becometh Thee in Zion; and a vow shall be paid to Thee in Jerusalem: hear my prayer; all flesh shall come to Thee. Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.