PRAYER FOR ALL THE FAITHFUL

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The Priest comes to the bier and says:

Priest: Enter not into judgment with thy servants, O Lord;

for, save thou grant them forgiveness of all their sins,
no man shall be justified in thy sight.
Wherefore suffer not, we beseech thee,
the sentence thou pronounces in judgment upon them
whom the faithful prayer
of Christian people commends to thee,
to be a doom which shall crush them utterly.
Rather succour them by thy gracious favour,
that they may escape thine avenging justice
who, in their lifetime,
was signed with the seal of the Holy Trinity:
Who livest and reignest world without end.
People: Amen.
Then the following responsory is sung or recited:

People: Deliver me, O Lord,

from death eternal in that awful day.
When the heavens and the earth shall be moved:
When Thou shalt come to judge the world by fire.
Reader: Dread and trembling have laid hold on me,
and I fear exceedingly because of the judgment
and of the wrath to come.
People: When the heavens and the earth shall be moved.
Reader: O that day, that day of wrath,
of sore distress and of all wretchedness,
that great day and exceeding bitter.
People: When Thou shalt come to judge the world by fire.

Reader: Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,

and let perpetual light shine upon them.
People: Deliver me, O Lord,
from death eternal in that awful day.
When the heavens and the earth shall be moved:
When Thou shalt come to judge the world by fire.
Priest: Lord, have mercy.
People: Lord, have mercy.
Priest: Christ, have mercy.
People: Christ, have mercy.
Priest: Lord, have mercy.
People: Lord, have mercy.
Priest: Our Father… (silently)
The Priest then walks twice around the bier first sprinkling it with holy water and then incensing it. He proceeds:

Priest: And lead us not into temptation.

People: But deliver us from evil.
Priest: From the gates of hell.
People: Deliver their souls, O Lord.
Priest: May they rest in peace.
People: Amen.
Priest: O Lord, hear my prayer.
People: And let my prayer come unto thee.
Priest: The Lord be with you.
People: And with your spirit.
Priest: Let us pray.
Pause for silent prayer.

Absolve, we beseech thee, O Lord,

the souls of thy servants
that they who are dead to the world,
may live to thee:
and wipe away by thy most merciful forgiveness
whatever sins they may have committed in life
through human frailty.
Through Christ our Lord.
People: Amen.
Priest: Eternal rest grant unto their souls, O Lord.
People: And let perpetual light shine upon them.
Priest: May they rest in peace.
People: Amen.
Priest: May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed
through the mercy of God rest in peace.
People: Amen.