Eternal God,
we praise you for the great company of all those
who have finished their course in faith
and now rest from their labor.
We praise you for those dear to us
whom we name in our hearts before you.
Especially we praise you for Name,
whom you have graciously received into your presence.
To all of these, grant your peace.
Let perpetual light shine upon them;
and help us so to believe where we have not seen,
that your presence may lead us through our years,
and bring us at last with them
into the joy of your home
not made with hands but eternal in the heavens;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
V. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.
R. Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Fidelium animae, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen.
Te, Dómine, sancte Pater, omnípotens aetérne Deus,
supplices deprecámur pro anima famuli tui N.,
quem de hoc s?culo ad te venire iussísti;
ut ei dignéris dare locum refrigérii, lucis et pacis.
Líceat ei portas mortis sine offensióne transíre
et in mansiónibus sanctórum et in luce sancta permáneat,
quam olim Abrahæ et eius sémini promisísti.
Nullam eius ánima sustíneat læsionem,
sed, cum magnus dies ille resurrectiónis
et remuneratiónis advénerit,
resuscitáre eum, Dómine,
una cum sanctis et eléctis dignéris;
dimíttas ei ómnia delícta atque peccáta,
tecúmque immortalitátis vitam
et regnum consequátur æternum.
Per Christum Dóminum nostrum.
R. Amen.]
Tibi, Dómine, fratrem nostrum (sorórem nostram)
humíliter commendámus,
ut, quem (quam) in hac vita mortáli
imménso semper es prosecútus amóre,
nunc, a malis ómnibus liberátum (liberátam),
in réquiem íngredi iúbeas sempitérnam.
Tuam ergo cleméntiam deprecámur,
ut, quia prima iam transiérunt,
illum (illam) in paradísum tuum benígne perdúcas,
ubi neque luctus, neque clamor, neque dolor erit ultra,
sed pax et gáudium, cum Fílio tuo et Spíritu Sancto,
in s?cula sæculórum
R. Amen.]
requiescat in pace