Your turn to pray

Short prayers for when you are asked to pray aloud.

“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak … as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:4. The picture: El Greco, Pentecost, about 1600, Museo del Prado.

Prayer 1 of 4About 50 seconds aloud

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. O God, whose property is always to have mercy and to spare, we humbly beseech Thee for the soul of Thy servant N., which Thou hast this day commanded to depart out of this world: that Thou deliver it not into the hands of the enemy, nor forget it unto the end; but command it to be received by Thy holy Angels, and conducted into Paradise, its true country; that, as in Thee it hath hoped and believed, it may not suffer the pains of hell, but may take possession of eternal joys.

A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity (1888), The Mass for the Dead, pp. 571–572

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