Elgar: Lux æterna

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Choir of New College, Oxford

Edward Higginbottom, DPhil (Oxon), BMus (Cantab), FRCO

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Libera me, Domine

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Verdi Requiem • Libera me, Domine
Renata Scotto, soprano

Claudio Abbado, dir.

10 October A.D. 1970

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Lacrimosa

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Mozart Requiem • Lacrimosa

Herrwegghe, dir.

Zbigniew Preisner • Lacrimosa

Sumi Jo, soprano

Verdi Requiem • Lacrimosa

Dies Irae

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Mozart Requiem • Dies Irae

Claudio Abbado, dir.

Verdi Requiem • Dies Irae

Claudio Abbado, dir.

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For the Deceased and the Mourners

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O Lord and King, who art full of compassion, God of the spirits of all flesh, in whose hand are the souls of the living and the dead, receive, we beseech thee, in thy great loving-kindness the souls of our brethren who have been gathered unto their people. Have mercy upon them; pardon all their transgressions, for there is none righteous upon the earth, who doeth only good, and sinneth not. Remember unto them the righteousness which they wrought, and let their reward be with them, and their recompense before them. Shelter their souls in the shadow of thy wings. Make known to them the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand, bliss for evermore.

O Lord, who healest the broken-hearted and bindest up their wounds, grant thy consolation unto the mourners. Strengthen and support them in the day of their grief and sorrow; and remember them for a long and good life. Put into their hearts the fear and love of thee, that they may serve thee with a perfect heart; and let their latter end be peace. Amen.

May Jesus, the Good Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, draw all of His flock into His arms and carry them home to the Kingdom of Heaven where they may safely dwell with Him in the Divine Presence and in glory everlasting. Amen.

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Prayer of the Church

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From a Services Book of King's College Chapel

THOU that art the hope of all the ends of the earth: remember all thy creation for good; visit the world with thy compassion. Thou preserver and lover of mankind: remember all, and on all have mercy, O Lord.

REMEMBER thy holy Church that is from one end of the earth to the other, and pacify her which Thou hast purchased with thy precious blood, and stablish her even unto the end of the world. Remember every human soul afflicted and oppressed and struggling and needing thy mercy and succour: and our brethren that are in captivities and in prisons and bonds and bitter thraldoms: supplying return to the wanderers, health to the sick, deliverance to the captives, and rest to them that have fallen asleep aforetime.

AND them that we have not remembered by reason of ignorance or forgetfulness or multitude of names, thyself remember, O God, which knowest the age and appellation of each, which knowest every one from his mother’s womb. For Thou, O Lord, art the succour of the succourless, and the hope of them that are past hope, the saviour of the tempest-tossed, the harbour of the voyagers, the physician of the sick; Thyself become all things to all men, which knowest each one and his petition, each house and its needs.

REMEMBER, O Lord God, all spirits and all flesh, whom we have remembered and whom we have remembered not, from righteous Abel unto this day that now is. And for us, direct the end of our lives to be Christian, well-pleasing, and if it please Thee, painless in peace, gathering us together under the feet of thine elect, when Thou wilt and as Thou wilt, only without shame and sin.

Priest   LORD in thy mercy,

All      Hear our prayer.

Priest   GRANT this our prayer for the sake of thy Son, 

         our Saviour Jesus Christ.

All     Amen.

Lancelot Andrewes, pray for us.

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A Child's Prayer for Peace

From an old Anglican Children's Prayer Book

Martha's Anxiety

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Sr. Wendy Beckett writes:

Worry is a canker. And it's self-regarding. Whereas all our real life is in Jesus. The function of anxiety is surely to alert us to our dependence on him and to the fact that he alone matters. It is a most useful feeling. It says: You are fragile, unrealised, not in charge of your life, in danger of... therefore turn wholly to Jesus. The feeling mayor may not diminish but the direction out of self's narrowness into his love has been conquered. We have to go on and on until finally we live out of self, in him....

The great thing to grasp is that to feel "relaxed/happy" or to feel anxious is unimportant. Feelings only matter as an occasion for love. Happy, secure feelings prompt us to praise him; sad, anxious feelings prompt us to express our faith and pray for him to be all in all to us. The feelings themselves tell us nothing about our "state" which is God's secret and God's work. We don't base anything on ourselves but only on him, on his goodness, knowing, as Paul says, in whom we have believed. Why are we anxious? Let's will to have Jesus as our holiness. Gradually even the feeling vanishes, but that is unimportant.

We can feel that growing in love should make life "easier” – that there is some failure in our fear, temptation, struggle. Not so. In fact the tempest may blow more severely as we near harbour. Jesus could never know a psychic respite, as the Gospels show. But our attitudes change. We cease to be afraid of fear; we open our arms to the will for the Father to give us whatever he will, knowing, in Jesus, that he gives only "good things".

Sister Wendy Beckett

Sister Wendy Beckett is a South African-born British art expert, a consecrated virgin, and contemplative hermit who lives under the protection of a Carmelite monastery in Norfolk, England.

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A Prayer of Saint Edmund

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O Lord, into Thy hands

and into the hands of Thine holy angels,

I commit and entrust this day my soul,

my relatives, benefactors, friends and enemies,

and all Thy Catholic people.

Keep us, O Lord, through the day,

by the merits and intercession

of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of all Thy saints;

keep us from all vicious and unruly desires,

from all sins and temptations of the devil,

from a sudden unprepared death,

and the pains of hell.

Illumine my heart with the grace of Thy Holy Ghost.

Grant that I may ever be obedient to Thy commandments.

Suffer me not to be separated from Thee,

O God, who livest and reignest

with God the Father and the same Holy Ghost. Amen.

Saint Edmund, pray for us to the Lord.

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A Prayer of Saint Isidore of Sevilla

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Here we are before thee, O Holy Ghost.
We feel the burden of our infirmities,
but we are united all together in Thy name:
come to us, help us, enter into our hearts:
teach us what we should do,
the path to follow,
do for us what Thou askest us to do.
Be the only one to propose and guide our decisions,
because only Thou, with the Father and the Son,
hast a name that is glorious and holy.
Do not allow us to offend justice,
Thou, who lovest order and peace,
Let not ignorance lead us astray,
Let not human sympathy bias us,
Do not let people or office influence us.
Keep us intimately close to Thee
with the gift of Thy Grace,
so that we may be only one thing with Thee,
and nothing may separate us from the Truth.
Gathered in Thy Holy Name,
may we be good and firm,
so that all we do may be in one accord with Thee,
awaiting that the faithful fulfillment of our duty
may lead us to the eternal good. Amen.

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The Chaplet of Saint Michael: Mother M. Angelica, PCPA

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It is time to pray daily The Chaplet of Saint Michael if you see what I see.

The video recording embedded below is prayed by Mother M. Angelica of  the Annunciation, PCPA  (+MEMORY ETERNAL+)




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Богородице Дево (Bogoroditse Djevo)

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I am interceding for God's mercy for the people of the Earth and the Earth herself.  May the Light of Christ Jesus shine where it is darkest, and may the Holy Protection of the Theotokos be upon all of her children.

Богородице Дево (Bogoroditse Djevo) by Kurt Sander

Kurt Sander's setting of Bogoroditse Djevo (Богородице Дево) embedded above comes from a splendid recording of new music by two Orthodox Christian composers entitled "As far as the East is from the West".   

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