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  2. The righteous perishes - Wikipedia

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    Tenor voice part of Jacob Handl's Ecce quomodo moritur iustus: over a century after its publication "for use in the Catholic Church" ("Catholicae Ecclesiae vsv") it was a well-known Protestant funeral motet. The righteous perishes are the words with which the 57th chapter of the Book of Isaiah start.

  3. Catholic funeral - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Isaiah 25 - Wikipedia

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    Isaiah 25 is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. Chapters 24-27 of Isaiah constitute one continuous poetical prophecy, sometimes called the "Isaiah Apocalypse".

  5. Absolution of the dead - Wikipedia

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    Such prayers are found in the funeral rites of the Catholic Church, [1] Anglicanism, [2] and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Liturgists analysing the Roman Rite funeral texts have applied the term "absolution" (not "absolution of the dead") to the series of chants and prayers that follow Requiem Mass and precede the solemn removal of the body from ...

  6. Christian burial - Wikipedia

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    The official name for the liturgy in the United Methodist Church is "A Service of Death and Resurrection"; it includes the elements found in a standard liturgy celebrated on the Lord's Day, [22] such as the Entrance, Opening Prayer, Old Testament Reading, Psalm, New Testament Reading, Alleluia, Gospel Reading, Sermon, Recitation of one of the ...

  7. Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New ...

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    The books of the New Testament frequently cite Jewish scripture to support the claim of the Early Christians that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah.Scholars have observed that few of these citations are actual predictions in context; the majority of these quotations and references are taken from the prophetic Book of Isaiah, but they range over the entire corpus of Jewish writings.

  8. Funeral Sermon and Prayer - Wikipedia

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    The importance of the Funeral Sermon resides from being the oldest surviving Hungarian and as such also the oldest Uralic, text — although individual words and even short partial sentences appear in charters, such as the founding charter of the Veszprém valley nunnery (997–1018/1109) or the founding charter of the abbey of Tihany (1055).

  9. Memorial service in the Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    A memorial service (Greek: μνημόσυνον, mnemósynon, "memorial"; [1] Slavonic: панихида, panikhída, from Greek παννυχίς, pannychis, "vigil" (etymologically "all-nighter"); [2] [3] Romanian: parastas and Serbian парастос, parastos, from Greek παράστασις, parástasis) [4] is a liturgical solemn service for the repose of the departed in the Eastern ...