Prayer for the Dead

In light of recent world and domestic events, I offer the following for our reflection and prayer:

Prayer for the Dead

Into your hands, O Lord,

we humbly entrust our brothers and sisters.

In this life you embraced them with your tender love;

deliver them now from every evil

and bid them enter eternal rest.

The old order has passed away:

welcome them into paradise,

where there will be no sorrow,

no weeping nor pain,

but fullness of peace and joy

with your Son and the Holy Spirit

forever and ever.

R/. Amen.

Taken from Catholic Household Blessings & Prayers, Revised Edition, USCCB