Our Prayer for the Evening on All Souls day is that God may pardon the holy souls in purgatory.
“The Church has always strongly advised that we pray for the dead. She invites believers to regard the mystery of death not as the ‘last word’ of human destiny but rather as a passage to eternal life. As we read in the Preface of today’s Mass: When the body of our earthly dwelling lies in death we gain an everlasting dwelling place in heaven.”—Pope Saint John Paul II
Prayer for the Evening
Let us exult and rejoice in the Lord
all the days of our life!
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be forever. Amen. Alleluia!
HYMN
Father of Jesus Christ, my Lord,
My Savior and my Head;
I trust in you, whose powerful Word
Has raised him from the dead.
To you the glory of your power
And faithfulness I give;
I shall in Christ, at that glad hour,
And Christ in me shall live.
PSALM 90:1-6, 14-15
Make us know the shortness of our life/ that we may gain wisdom of the heart. (Ps 90:12)
All humanity is bound together by the common mortality in which Christ Jesus came to share. With us he died, so that in him we might rise to everlasting life. Let us learn from those who have gone before us how to live well so that we may die well, and let us accompany them on their journey with our love and prayer.
O Lord, you have been our refuge
from one generation to the next.
Before the mountains were born
or the earth or the world brought forth,
you are God, without beginning or end.
You turn men back to dust
and say: “Go back, sons of men.”
To your eyes a thousand years
are like yesterday, come and gone,
no more than a watch in the night.
You sweep men away like a dream,
like grass that springs up in the morning.
In the morning it springs up and flowers:
by evening it withers and fades.
In the morning, fill us with your love;
we shall exult and rejoice all our days.
Give us the joy to balance our affliction
for the years when we knew misfortune.
Glory to the Father….
Word of God (John 6:39-40)
“This is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it [on] the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him [on] the last day.”
I am the resurrection and the life;
whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live. (Jn 11:25)
CANTICLE OF MARY
If we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection. (Rom 6:5)
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
[he] has scattered the pride in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones
and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children forever.
Glory to the Father…
INTERCESSIONS
Through Christ, who became like us in all things but sin, let us pray for those who have died:
R/Give them joy, O Lord!
You were born into the world of death so that you might bring abundant life:
– raise to new life all those who have died in poverty and pain. R/
You took on our flesh, subject to death so that we might take on new life in you:
– raise to new life those who have died in illness, violence, and deprivation. R/
You died on the cross, that we might rise from the grave:
– raise to new life those who have been tortured, murdered, or executed. R/
Your Mother endured the sorrow of your death, that we might know the gladness of your rising:
– raise up all those who are bowed down under the sorrow of bereavement. R/
Personal intentions
Our Father….
May the angels lead us into paradise; may the martyrs come to welcome us and lead us into the holy city Jerusalem. Amen. (In Paradisum)
Marian Antiphon
Medieval Antiphon
Rejoice, O Mother of God, O Virgin Immaculate;
[rejoice], you who received joy from an angel;rejoice, you who bore the glory of the light everlasting;
[rejoice], O Mother, rejoice,O holy Virgin Mother of God;
you alone a maiden Mother,
all creation praises you, the Mother of light;
may you be for us, we beseech you,
a perpetual intercessor.
Salve Regina
Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae;
vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Evae.
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.
Eia ergo, advocata nostra,
illos tuos misericordes oculos
ad nos converte.
Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.
Hail, holy Queen
Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy,
our life, our sweetness, and our hope.
To you do we cry,
poor banished children of Eve.
To you do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, O most gracious advocate,
your eyes of mercy toward us,
and after this our exile
show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
V/ Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,
R/ That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia Caeli
porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti,
surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti,
natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem,
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore
sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.
Loving mother of the Redeemer
Loving mother of the Redeemer,
gate of heaven, star of the sea,
assist your people who have fallen yet strive
to rise again.
To the wonderment of nature, you bore your Creator,
yet remained a virgin after as before.
You who received Gabriel’s joyful greeting,
have pity on us, poor sinners.
V/ Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,
R/ That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
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