Saturday, November 08, 2008
The Dies Irae Chanted
Labels: Hallowmas
Chant Of the Salve Regina
Our Blessed Lady's Saturday
Prayer To Our Blessed Lady For the Poor Souls, From The Raccolta
OUR LADY OF INTERCESSION
[For the Holy Souls]
434
Most holy Mary, Our Lady of Intercession whose maternal tenderness gathers in one embrace all the souls redeemed by the Precious Blood of thy Son Jesus, we come before thy royal throne with sadness in our hearts as we remember those who have gone before us, but also with unlimited confidence in thine intercession. Death, which burst asunder the bonds of earth, has not destroyed the affection which binds us to those who lived in the same faith as we do. O Mary, countless souls await with unutterable anxiety the assistance of our prayers, and the merits of our good works in that place of expiation. Urged by the charity of Jesus Christ, we raise our countenance and heart in supplication to thee, the compassionate Mother of all believers, in favor of those suffering souls. Make our prayers of good effect, O Mary; obtain for them the power to move the Heart of Jesus our Redeemer through thy motherly intercession.
Let thine incomparable holiness supply the defects of our misery, thy love make good our languid affection, thy power strengthen our weakness. Grant, O Queen of Heaven, that the ardent desire of the souls of the departed to be admitted to the Beatific Vision may soon be satisfied. We pray to thee, O Mother, especially for the souls of our relations, of priests, of those who were zealous in honoring thee, of those who did good to the souls of others, of those who wept with them and for them and, finally, for the souls of those who are forgotten. Grant that one day, when we are all reunited in Heaven, we may be able to rejoice in the possession of God, in the happiness of thy dear presence, in the fellowship of all the Saints, thanking thee forever for all the blessings thou hast obtained for us, O Mother, who art our unfailing comfort. Amen.
Hail Mary three times, and once Eternal rest grant unto them, etc.
Dec. 2, 1926 and Apr. 18, 1935
Labels: Our Blessed Lady
Friday, November 07, 2008
Friday At the Foot Of the Cross
Remember, O Beloved Jesus,
Who for the love of me didst agonize on the Cross,
and from that throne of truth didst announce the
completion of the work of our Redemption, through which,
from being the children of wrath and perdition,
we are become the children of God and the heirs of Heaven:
Have mercy on all the faithful in their agony,
and on me also when I shall be in that extremity,
and, through the merits of Thy Precious Blood,
detach us entirely from the world and from ourselves,
and at the moment of our agony give us grace
sincerely to offer Thee the sacrifice of our life
in expiation for our sins.
Amen.
Labels: Friday At the Foot Of the Cross
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Memento Mori Rosary Bead
I Had Always Wondered If I Was Doing It Correctly
You know how at Benediction, the priest lifts up the monstrance, and makes the Sign Of the Cross over the congregation? When do you bless yourself? I see people doing it as soon as the priest starts to make the Sign Of the Cross, and others who wait until the priest has maneouvered the monstrance so that it is facing their side of the pews. Meanwhile, others still wait until the priest is done.
Father Z. explains that there is no hard and fast rule in the rubrics at all about when the congregation is to bless themselves, and that it is not even required.
OK, so no more glaring at people who do it at a different time than you do, or who don't do it at all. Sometimes, I think those angry little glares we throw around the church are more harmful than bushel-loads of perceived liturgical abuses.
Father Z. explains that there is no hard and fast rule in the rubrics at all about when the congregation is to bless themselves, and that it is not even required.
OK, so no more glaring at people who do it at a different time than you do, or who don't do it at all. Sometimes, I think those angry little glares we throw around the church are more harmful than bushel-loads of perceived liturgical abuses.
Labels: Restorationists
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Gosh I Need Diversion and Distraction
The cast of national affairs is so horrendous that I am forced to retreat to private pleasures.
A well-ordered garden has always been a delight to me. Must be growing up with my parents' clipped yews.
I am ever a friend to classic good taste and proportion in architecture and interior design.
The holidays are coming fast now, and I am both an accomplished cook and a trencherman of notable persistence.
If one must worship in a church designed in the last 200 years, it is a consolation if there is something Puginesque about it.
Time, and money, spent in a hobby shop always cheer me up.
Waugh, Buckley, Tolkien, Kirk. All gone to their reward now, but all with pipe or cigar.
Are those who do not read truly alive?
I never tire of Williamsburg
Mr. Gainsborough was the most talented fellow with a brush ever.
The Aran Islands, the Shannon, the Cliffs of Moher and the Burren are ancestral neighbors.
The work of Geoff Hunt, the foremast nautical painter ever
Ah, donning a uniform and shouldering a musket to teach Cousin Jonathan to not get above himself and pretend independence from His Majesty King George III
So, te fecklessness of my fellow Americans may have given me a bad case of tedium vitae, but there are still many compensations in life to be enjoyed.
A well-ordered garden has always been a delight to me. Must be growing up with my parents' clipped yews.
I am ever a friend to classic good taste and proportion in architecture and interior design.
The holidays are coming fast now, and I am both an accomplished cook and a trencherman of notable persistence.
If one must worship in a church designed in the last 200 years, it is a consolation if there is something Puginesque about it.
Time, and money, spent in a hobby shop always cheer me up.
Waugh, Buckley, Tolkien, Kirk. All gone to their reward now, but all with pipe or cigar.
Are those who do not read truly alive?
I never tire of Williamsburg
Mr. Gainsborough was the most talented fellow with a brush ever.
The Aran Islands, the Shannon, the Cliffs of Moher and the Burren are ancestral neighbors.
The work of Geoff Hunt, the foremast nautical painter ever
Ah, donning a uniform and shouldering a musket to teach Cousin Jonathan to not get above himself and pretend independence from His Majesty King George III
So, te fecklessness of my fellow Americans may have given me a bad case of tedium vitae, but there are still many compensations in life to be enjoyed.
Labels: Life Goes On
Guy Fawkes Night
Remember, remember
Te Fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Actually, I see many reasons. Guy Fawkes's plan was ill-conceived. Had he succeeded, the response by the protestant powers- that-were in Britain he would have made the fate of Catholics in Great Britain and Ireland not just truly miserable, but utterly unsustainable. Very likely, they would all, down to the last man, woman, and babe in arms, have been ferreted out and martyred.
And Guy Fawkes Night is a secular/protestant replacement for All Hallows. It has the communal outdoors activities, like begging a penny for the Guy, and fire rites, that are usurped from Hallowmas.
In Great Britain, it is the annual focal point for anti-Catholic enthusiasm. And in Puritan colonial Boston, it was much worse, as Puritan mobs used to assemble floats with hateful effigies of the reigning pope, and have a donnybrook of a brawl in the Haymarket over control of the effigies. Then the drunken mobs would burn the effigies.
Better, by far, to observe Hallowmas.
Te Fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Actually, I see many reasons. Guy Fawkes's plan was ill-conceived. Had he succeeded, the response by the protestant powers- that-were in Britain he would have made the fate of Catholics in Great Britain and Ireland not just truly miserable, but utterly unsustainable. Very likely, they would all, down to the last man, woman, and babe in arms, have been ferreted out and martyred.
And Guy Fawkes Night is a secular/protestant replacement for All Hallows. It has the communal outdoors activities, like begging a penny for the Guy, and fire rites, that are usurped from Hallowmas.
In Great Britain, it is the annual focal point for anti-Catholic enthusiasm. And in Puritan colonial Boston, it was much worse, as Puritan mobs used to assemble floats with hateful effigies of the reigning pope, and have a donnybrook of a brawl in the Haymarket over control of the effigies. Then the drunken mobs would burn the effigies.
Better, by far, to observe Hallowmas.
Labels: Annual Cycles
Feast of the Holy Relics
I only own 1 relic, a humble 3rd class relic, a piece of cloth rubbed against something once used by St. Padre Pio. It is contained in a holy card that I keep in my 1959 St. Joseph Daily Missal on the page for September 23rd, which is both St. Pio's feast and the anniversary of my mother's death.
I am therefore in awe of the relics Father Z owns.
I am therefore in awe of the relics Father Z owns.
Labels: Restorationists
Desolation In the Land
The end of the American ideal of ordered republican liberty? Probably not, but bleak times are ahead.
It has been an axiom of the democratical creed that the people are always right. That is utter nonsense. Were the people right when they elected Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton? Of course not. The American people sometimes display a foolish fecklessness and instability of temper at the polls. They are dissatisfied at problems, and make them worse, as they did in electing Franklin Roosevelt. And I suspect that last night the mood of the country (not nation, we are not a nation, only a country) was to have a temper tantrum over the market correction and the war. Nevermind the eternal wisdom that recessions are due every 3-7 years no matter what you do for economic policy, or that the war, at least the Iraq campaign of this war, was won a very long time ago. The American people would not be pleased, and decided to throw out the party holding the White House.
This year has seen many shades of 1996, when inevitable Democrat victory was made worse by an over-age GOP standard-bearer who had "earned his chance." Like Dole, conservative Republicans never liked McCain. Why would they? He has spent the last 20 years cramping the collective asses of the conservative movement and the Republican Party.
The good news is that he will have little say in shaping the Republican Party that emerges from this debacle. And with good fortune, a more cohesive and conservative GOP will emerge in the next 2-4 years, one that will regain control of the federal government and be able to make enormous progress on the conservative agenda.
But for now, we will have to live with the Obamination. I think the only people really looking forward to the next 4 years, other than the brain-dead voting masses that elected it, are Rush, Ann Coulter, and Michael Savage. I suspect they will do very well indeed making a living critiquing the Obamination.
For all the filth thrown at the Bush Administration, especially over the last couple of years, one very important thing has been overlooked. It has been a remarkably clean and scandal-free 8 years (as were the 4 years of George H.W. Bush). I doubt that we will be saying the same thing about the Obama Administration. In fact, I look forward to the most gross corruption becoming known sooner rather than later. Just give them a few months to get their hands on the controls of the federal government, and the scandals will start to emerge. Of course, the media will try to cover it up. But the days of an item not being news until the New York Times deems it appropriate to cover it are long over.
And in fact, though I doubt it played a decisive role in this election, the scandals over Acorn and the rampant voting fraud it created are due to start coming front and center.
The biggest losers here are the unborn. We were so close. We have been within 1 Supreme Court vote of overturning Roe v. Wade, and sending the issue of abortion back to the states. For years, the hopes of the pro-life movement have hung on the death or retirement of John Paul Stevens. Now, with a liberal president-elect who owes everything to NOW and Planned Parenthood, he only has to keep breathing until January 21st, and submit his resignation, knowing that there is a 100% chance that Obama will pick an even more liberal Justice to replace him. And the other liberals, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, can help the cause by submitting their resignations and being replaced by younger liberals. Now it is we conservatives who must pray that none of our older justices step down or become disabled or die. We must pray that Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Roberts and Alito can all hold out at least 4 years, maybe 8.
Catholic voters took their eyes off the prize. Electing McCain would have made more likely, though not 100% certain, the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But decisive numbers of Catholics pulled the lever for Democrats, as they did in the mid-terms 2 years ago, and in doing so, they have imperiled their own souls, and condemned many millions more babies to be murdered before they are born.
They have also proven themselves enormously ungrateful to the GOP which has been their loyal servant in the effort to reverse Roe and curtail or end abortion. They are just as foolish and feckless as the rest of the American electorate.
What next? That will depend on Obama and how he handles power. If he uses it responsibly to make reforms here and there at the margin, all will get along, and we will have fun at the expense of the leftists he appoints to power, and the odd things they say and believe, as we did with the Clintons. And then we will be rid of him and the horrific party of abortion he now presides over, in the next election.
It has been an axiom of the democratical creed that the people are always right. That is utter nonsense. Were the people right when they elected Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton? Of course not. The American people sometimes display a foolish fecklessness and instability of temper at the polls. They are dissatisfied at problems, and make them worse, as they did in electing Franklin Roosevelt. And I suspect that last night the mood of the country (not nation, we are not a nation, only a country) was to have a temper tantrum over the market correction and the war. Nevermind the eternal wisdom that recessions are due every 3-7 years no matter what you do for economic policy, or that the war, at least the Iraq campaign of this war, was won a very long time ago. The American people would not be pleased, and decided to throw out the party holding the White House.
This year has seen many shades of 1996, when inevitable Democrat victory was made worse by an over-age GOP standard-bearer who had "earned his chance." Like Dole, conservative Republicans never liked McCain. Why would they? He has spent the last 20 years cramping the collective asses of the conservative movement and the Republican Party.
The good news is that he will have little say in shaping the Republican Party that emerges from this debacle. And with good fortune, a more cohesive and conservative GOP will emerge in the next 2-4 years, one that will regain control of the federal government and be able to make enormous progress on the conservative agenda.
But for now, we will have to live with the Obamination. I think the only people really looking forward to the next 4 years, other than the brain-dead voting masses that elected it, are Rush, Ann Coulter, and Michael Savage. I suspect they will do very well indeed making a living critiquing the Obamination.
For all the filth thrown at the Bush Administration, especially over the last couple of years, one very important thing has been overlooked. It has been a remarkably clean and scandal-free 8 years (as were the 4 years of George H.W. Bush). I doubt that we will be saying the same thing about the Obama Administration. In fact, I look forward to the most gross corruption becoming known sooner rather than later. Just give them a few months to get their hands on the controls of the federal government, and the scandals will start to emerge. Of course, the media will try to cover it up. But the days of an item not being news until the New York Times deems it appropriate to cover it are long over.
And in fact, though I doubt it played a decisive role in this election, the scandals over Acorn and the rampant voting fraud it created are due to start coming front and center.
The biggest losers here are the unborn. We were so close. We have been within 1 Supreme Court vote of overturning Roe v. Wade, and sending the issue of abortion back to the states. For years, the hopes of the pro-life movement have hung on the death or retirement of John Paul Stevens. Now, with a liberal president-elect who owes everything to NOW and Planned Parenthood, he only has to keep breathing until January 21st, and submit his resignation, knowing that there is a 100% chance that Obama will pick an even more liberal Justice to replace him. And the other liberals, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, can help the cause by submitting their resignations and being replaced by younger liberals. Now it is we conservatives who must pray that none of our older justices step down or become disabled or die. We must pray that Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Roberts and Alito can all hold out at least 4 years, maybe 8.
Catholic voters took their eyes off the prize. Electing McCain would have made more likely, though not 100% certain, the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But decisive numbers of Catholics pulled the lever for Democrats, as they did in the mid-terms 2 years ago, and in doing so, they have imperiled their own souls, and condemned many millions more babies to be murdered before they are born.
They have also proven themselves enormously ungrateful to the GOP which has been their loyal servant in the effort to reverse Roe and curtail or end abortion. They are just as foolish and feckless as the rest of the American electorate.
What next? That will depend on Obama and how he handles power. If he uses it responsibly to make reforms here and there at the margin, all will get along, and we will have fun at the expense of the leftists he appoints to power, and the odd things they say and believe, as we did with the Clintons. And then we will be rid of him and the horrific party of abortion he now presides over, in the next election.
Labels: Any Serious Catholic Who Isn't A Very Conservative Republican...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Election Day
If you have any regard for the lives of the yet-to-be-born, vote for McCain/Palin. There is no other alternative. The Obamination promises a Freedom of Choice Act and very liberal judges and Supreme Court Justices. There is no alternative.
Labels: Any Serious Catholic Who Isn't A Very Conservative Republican...
Monday, November 03, 2008
All Souls' Day, 2008
All Saints' Day, by Bouguereau
V. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.
R. Et lux perpetua luceat in eis.
V. Requiescant in pace.
R. Amen.
Kathryn & George
Thomas
Nora & Thomas
Felicia & Louis
Patrick & Susan
Thelma & Herbert
Barbara
Austin
Mary & Charles
Ida & Edward
Rudolph
Emily & Anthony
Mary and John
Elmer
Grace & William
Winifred & Louis
Rose & Harold
Mildred & Frank
Minerva & Joseph
Bea & Roland
William
Samson
Patricia
Mary & James
Brother Daniel
Thomas
Joseph
June
Gene
Glenn
Henrietta
Nick
Kevin
Father Flaherty
Mary & John
Brother Chad, CFX
Father Mahoney, SJ
Father Cheney, SJ
Father Fitzptarick
Doctor Miller
Doctor Daly
Frank
Tommy
Vincent
Memorial Prayer for the Suffering Souls in Purgatory
(For Private Use Only)
Almighty God, Father of Goodness and love,
have mercy on the Poor Suffering Souls,
and grant Thine aid:
To my dear parents and ancestors;
Jesus, Mary, Joseph! My Jesus Mercy.
To my brothers and sisters and other near relatives;
Jesus, Mary, Joseph! My Jesus Mercy.
To my benefactors, spiritual and temporal; etc.
To my former friends and subjects;
To all for whom love or duty bids me pray;
To those who have suffered disadvantage or harm through me;
To those who have offended me;
To all those who are especially beloved by Thee;
To those whose release is at hand;
To those who desire most to be united with Thee;
To those who endure the greatest suffering;
To those whose release is most remote;
To those who are least remembered;
To those who are most deserving on account of their services to the Church;
To the rich, who now are the most destitute;
To the mighty, who now are as lowly servants;
To the blind, who now see their folly;
To the frivolous, who spent their time in idleness;
To the poor, who did not seek the treasures of Heaven;
To the tepid, who devoted little time to prayer;
To the indolent, who were negligent in performing good works;
To those of little faith, who neglected the frequent reception of the Sacraments;
To the habitual sinners, who owe their salvation to a miracle of grace;
To parents who failed to watch over their children;
To superiors who were not solicitous for the salvation of those entrusted to them;
To the souls of those who strove for hardly anything but riches and pleasures;
To the worldly-minded, who failed to use their wealth and talents in the service of God;
To those who witnessed the death of others, but would not think of their own;
To those who did not provide for the great journey beyond, and the days of tribulation;
To those whose judgment is so severe because of the great things entrusted to them;
To the popes, rulers, kings and princes;
To the bishops and their counselors;
To my teachers and spiritual advisors;
To the deceased priests of this diocese;
To all the priests and religious of the whole Catholic Church;
To the defenders of the Holy Faith;
To those who died on the battlefield;
To those who are buried in the sea;
To those who died of stroke or heart attack;
To those who died without the last rites of the Church;
To those who shall die within the next twenty-four hours;
To my own poor soul when I shall have to appear before Thy judgment seat;
V. O Lord, grant eternal rest to all the souls of the faithful departed,
R. And let perpetual light shine upon them.
V. May they rest in peace.
R. Amen.
Dies Irae
The day of wrath, that day
which will reduce the world to ashes,
as foretold by David and the Sybil.
What terror there will be,
when the Lord will come
to judge all rigorously!
The trumpet, scattering a wondrous sound
among the graves of all the lands,
will assemble all before the Throne.
Death and Nature will be astounded
when they see a creature rise again
to answer to the Judge.
The book will be brought forth
in which all deeds are noted,
for which humanity will answer.
When the judge will be seated,
all that is hidden will appear,
and nothing will go unpunished.
Alas, what will I then say?
To what advocate shall I appeal,
when even the just tremble?
O king of redoutable majesty,
who freely saves the elect,
save me, o fount of piety!
Remember, merciful Jesus,
that I am the cause of your journey,
do not lose me on that day.
You wearied yourself in finding me.
You have redeemed me through the cross.
Let not such great efforts be in vain.
O judge of vengeance, justly
make a gift of your forgiveness
before the day of reckoning.
I lament like a guilty one.
My faults cause me to blush,
I beg you, spare me.
You who have absolved Mary,
and have heard the thief's prayer,
have also given me hope.
My prayers are not worthy,
but you, o Good One, please grant freely
that I do not burn in the eternal fire.
Give me a place among the sheep,
separate me from the goats
by placing me at your right.
Having destroyed the accursed,
condemned them to the fierce flames,
Count me among the blessed.
I prostrate myself, supplicating,
my heart in ashes, repentant;
take good care of my last moment!
That tearful day,
when from the ashes shall rise again.
Sinful man to be judged.
Therefore pardon him, o God.
Merciful Lord Jesus,
give them rest.
Amen.
Dies irae, dies illa
solvet saeclum in favilla,
teste David cum Sybilla.
Quantus tremor est futurus,
quando judex est venturus,
cuncta stricte discussurus.
Tuba mirum spargens sonum
per sepulchra regionum,
coget omnes ante thronum.
Mors stupebit et natura,
cum resurget creatura,
judicanti responsura.
Liber scriptus proferetur,
in quo totum continetur,
unde mundus judicetur.
Judex ergo cum sedebit,
quidquid latet apparebit,
nil inultum remanebit.
Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
Quem patronum rogaturus,
cum vix justus sit securus?
Rex tremendae majestatis,
qui salvandos salvas gratis,
salva me, fons pietatis.
Recordare Jesu pie,
quod sum causa tuae viae,
ne me perdas illa die.
Quaerens me sedisti lassus,
redemisti crucem passus,
tantus labor non sit cassus.
Juste judex ultionis,
donum fac remissionis
ante diem rationis.
Ingemisco tanquam reus,
culpa rubet vultus meus,
supplicanti parce, Deus.
Qui Mariam absolvisti,
et latronem exaudisti,
mihi quoque spem dedisti.
Preces meae non sunt dignae,
sed tu, bonus, fac benigne,
ne perenni cremer igne.
Inter oves locum praeta,
et ab hoedis me sequestra,
statuens in parte dextra.
Confutatis maledictis,
flammis acribus addictis,
voca me cum benedictis.
Oro supplex et acclinis,
cor contritum quasi cinis,
gere curam mei finis.
Lacrimosa dies illa,
qua resurget ex favilla
judicandus homo reus -
Huic ergo parce, Deus.
Pie Jesu Domine,
dona eis requiem.
Amen.
November Plaints
Rest Eternal Grant Them, Lord!
Take we up the touching burden of November plaints,
Pleading for the Holy Souls, God’s yet uncrowned Saints.
Still unpaid to our departed is the debt we owe;
Still unransomed, some are pining, sore oppressed with woe.
Friends we loved and vowed to cherish call us in their need:
Prove we now our love was real, true in word and deed.
“Rest eternal grant them, Lord!” full often let us pray—
“Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine!”
Requiem Aeternam
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Requiescant in pace.
Amen.
Another Litany for the Suffering Souls
(For Private Use Only)
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven ,
Have mercy on the Souls of the Faithful departed.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on the Souls of the faithful departed.
God the Holy Spirit,
Have mercy on the Souls of the faithful departed.
Holy Trinity, One God,
Have mercy on the Souls of the faithful departed.
Holy Mary ,
Pray for the Souls of the faithful departed.
Holy Mother of God,
Pray for the Souls of the faithful departed.
Saint Michael, etc.
Saint Gabriel,
All ye holy Angels and Archangels,
Saint John the Baptist,
Saint Joseph,
All ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets,
Saint Peter,
Saint Paul,
Saint John,
All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists,
Saint Stephen,
Saint Lawrence,
All ye holy Martyrs,
Saint Gregory,
Saint Ambrose,
All ye holy bishops and confessors,
Saint Mary Magdalen,
Saint Catherine,
All ye holy Virgins and widows,
All ye Saints of God,
Make intercession for the Souls of the faithful departed.
Be merciful,
Spare them, O Lord.
Be merciful,
Hear them, O Lord.
From all evil,
O Lord, deliver them.
From Thy wrath,
O Lord, deliver them.
From the flame of fire, etc.
From the region of the shadow of death,
Through Thine Immaculate Conception,
Through Thy Nativity,
Through Thy Most Holy Name,
Through the multitude of Thy tender mercies, Through Thy most bitter Passion,
Through Thy most Sacred Wounds,
Through Thy most Precious Blood,
Through Thine ignominious death, by which
Thou hast destroyed our death,
We sinners,
We beseech Thee, hear us.
O Thou Who didst absolve the sinner woman and hear the prayer of the good thief,
We beseech Thee, hear us.
That thou wouldst release our deceased parents, relations and benefactors
from the bonds of their sins and the punishment for them, etc.
That Thou wouldst hasten the day of visiting Thy faithful detained in the receptacles
of sorrow, and wouldst transport them to the city of eternal peace,
That Thou wouldst shorten the time of expiation for their sins and graciously
admit them into the holy sanctuary, into which no unclean thing can enter,
That through the prayers and alms of Thy Church, and especially by the inestimable
Sacrifice of Thy Holy Altar, Thou wouldst receive them into the tabernacle of rest
and crown their longing hopes with everlasting fruition,
Son of God,
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Grant them eternal rest.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Grant them eternal rest.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Grant them eternal rest.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, etc.
V. And lead us not into temptation,
R. But deliver us from all evil. Amen.
V. From the gates of Hell,
R. Deliver their Souls, O Lord.
V. May they rest in peace.
R. Amen.
V. O Lord, hear my prayer ,
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.
Let Us Pray.
O God, Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful, grant to the Souls of Thy
departed servants the remission of all their sins, that through our pious
supplications they may obtain the pardon which they have always desired.
Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. R. Amen.
O God, the Giver of pardon and the Lover of the salvation of men, we beg Thy clemency on behalf of our brethren, kinsfolk and benefactors who have departed this life, that by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of all the Saints, Thou wouldst receive them into the joys of Thine everlasting kingdom. Through Christ Our Lord. R. Amen.
O God, to Whom it belongs always to have mercy and to spare, be favorably propitious to the Souls of Thy servants and grant them the remission of all their sins, that being delivered from the bonds of this mortal life, they may be admitted to life everlasting. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
Labels: Hallowmas
