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Rest eternal grant unto them, O L ORD: ℟. and let light perpetual shine upon them. ℣. May they rest in peace. ℟. Amen. A variation of the prayer said by American Methodist clergy during A Service of Death and Resurrection is: [7] Eternal God, we praise you for the great company of all those who have finished their course in faith and now ...
Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord: and let light perpetual shine upon them. The responsory is begun by a cantor, who sings the first part of the versicles , and the responses are sung by the choir.
When the heavens and the earth shall be moved. O that day, that day of wrath, of sore distress and of all wretchedness, that great and exceeding bitter day. When Thou shalt come to judge the world by fire. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal death in that awful day.
A passage in the New Testament which is seen by some to be a prayer for the dead is found in 2 Timothy 1:16–18, which reads as follows: . May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy on that day); and in how many ...
The introitus of the traditional Requiem Mass of the Extraordinary Form of the 1962 Missal in the Catholic Church is loosely based on 2:34–35: "Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them." Several other liturgical prayers are taken from the book.
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]
The chanting of "memory eternal" is introduced by a deacon, as follows: Deacon: In a blessed falling asleep, grant, O Lord, eternal rest unto Thy departed servant (Name) and make his/her memory to be eternal! Choir: Memory eternal! Memory eternal! Memory eternal! It concludes with the line "with the saints, grant her/him rest o Lord, memory ...
Let us pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy. O God of all spirits and all flesh, Who have destroyed death, overcome the Devil, and given life to the world: grant, O Lord, to the soul of your servant N., who has departed from this life, that it may rest in a place of light, in a place of happiness, in a place of peace, where there is no pain, no ...