A REQUIEM EUCHARIST *** 150

When the deceased soul is believed or has expressed to be of interreligious mind,

E g believing in the words by Jesus (Matthew 5 l7)

I have not come to abolish the prophets

Believing perhaps in past incarnations in different religions

Believing perhaps in a future mankind of "United reformed Religions

Perhaps specially in love with some parts of interreligious literature

If that is so it may be polite towards the deceased one to use such holy scripture in the service.

Here will some suggesting be quoted in a frame of common Christian Requiem service

The deceased soul may before the death of the body or through friends and relatives express more…

VIOLET COLOUR is common but white for children. The word child is then better than servant

The order of service is as at a usual Eucharist except for interreligious points as below

Some words may be altered according as the Requiem is general or particular

Priest: IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE FATHER + , SON AND HOLY GHOST C Amen

Psalm 23

Antiphon: The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord

1 The lord is my Shepherd therefore can I lack nothing

2. He shall feed me in a green pasture: and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort
3. He shall convert my soul: and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness, for his Name´s sake
4. Yea, though I may walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil

for Thou art with me Thy rod and staff comfort me

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost

As it was in the beginning , is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen

Antiphon: The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord

+ REST IN THE ETERNAL, DO YOU GRANT, O LORD

YOU LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM (HIM, HER)

YE ANGELS OF THE LORD COME FORTH TO MEET THEM (HIM HER )

YE SAINTS OF GOD RECEIVE THEM (HIM HER) INTO YOUR FELLOWSHIP

YE CHOIRS OF ANGELS RECEIVE THEM (HIM HER)

AND GUIDE THEM (HIM HER) INTO ETERNAL PEACE

+ REST IN THE ETERNAL DO YOU GRANT, O LORD

YOU LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM (HIM HER)

ALMIGHTY GOD IN ALL, WHO HAS DOMINION OVER BOTH

OUR LIFE IN VISIBLE BODIES AND OUR LIFE AFTER

THE DEATH OF THESE BODIES. WE BLESS THEE

You hold all Thy Children in the everlasting arms of Thy love.

We bless Thee + who give peace and repose to those who are dead unto the world yet ever living unto Thee and who shall find perfect consummation of happiness and peace in continued and unceasing service, through Christ in us.

C: Amen

P Likewise, O Lord, do we bless + those who love thy children who leave us, those whom Thou called to sacrifice the solace of their (his , her) earthly presence:

We thank you O Lord You will comfort them with the balm of Thy loving-kindness, that , strengthened by Thee and resting upon the surety of Thy wisdom, they may put aside their thought of sorrow and grief and pour out upon them (him , her) only such thoughts of love as may help in the higher life of service to which Thou has now called them (him her), through Christ, the innermost Lord within all

C Amen

THE EPISTLE from first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

Behold I show you a mystery: there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body; for this corruptible must put on incorruption , and this mortal must put on immortality. Then shall be brought to pass the saying O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory

PROPHETIC WORDS

Psalms 82 6 says YOU ARE GODS YOU ARE ALL CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH

ISAIAH SAYS ABOUT MESSIAS: HE HAS borne our grief and carried our sorrows

And Isaiah prophecies a new paradisic time

THE PROPHET MOHAMMED or God through the Angel Gabriel says in the Koran

You have been dead and been given life again. God shall let you die again and wake you to new life

And finally shall you be brought back to God.. Each one of you have an guarding angel given by God.

A Muslim Sufi says " I lived in stone and died and was born in a vegetable body. I died as vegetable

and was reborn in animal body. I died out of animal body and was reborn as this human being. I shall

die as human and be reborn as angel among angels and die as angel and be reborn in still higher form

God is transcendent and immanent. You ought to know yourself as what you really are, that is Spirit.

THE PROPHET KRISHNA (incarnating God ) says : I love you

Nor at any time verily was I not, nor these men, nor shall we ever cease to be hereafter

As a man casting off worn-out garments taketh new one so the dweller in the body casting off worn-out

bodies enters into others that are new. Certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead. Beings are unmanifest in their origin and manifest in their midmost state. Come to me, to Nirvana, the Eternal

THE PROPHET LAOTSE IN CHINA

gave with other words the same message

that the body dies but that is no real end. We continue to live in Tao…the Eternal

THE PROPHET BUDDHA SAYS

This is my last reincarnation but I will by compassion continue to guide souls to salvation from suffering. He is a heavenly Buddha but a reflection is the known Buddha on earth. And he speaks about the innermost eternal Buddha-nature in each one - which is Nirvana

THE GRADUAL

Antiphon From Thee cometh victory and wisdom and Thine O Lord is the glory

1 Blessed be the Name of God for ever and ever: He giveth their wisdom unto the wise

and knowledge to them that know understanding

2 God revealeth the deep and secret things: God knoweth what is in the darkness

and the light dwelleth with God

3 Wisdom entereth into holy souls She maketh them prophets and friends of God

He that loveth wisdom loveth life and thy that seek her early shall be filled with joy

Antiphon From Thee cometh victory and wisdom and Thine O Lord is the glory

Then said Martha unto Jesus: "Lord, if Thou had been here, my brother had not died. "

Jesus saith unto her: "Thy brother shall rise again. I am the Resurrection and the Life"

And Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas: "When you know your self you will be aware that you are

Children of the living

God The Kingdom is in your centre and is about you"

In the Gospel of Pistis Sophia does Jesus confirm that the prophet John the Baptist is a reincarnation of

The Prophet Elia

And Jesus says that he is coming in this world to give the mysteries of the light, of Gnosis

He says that we are emanations of heavenly light but now suffering until we find the purifying mysteries

of the Kingdom He tells about how a sinful soul is brought back to reincarnation until perfection

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P We praise Thee, o LORD, that Thy compassionate wisdom which guided Thy child (ren) through the portal of birth has (now) called him (her them) through death's gateway to a fuller life with Thee. You enlighten them (him her) Father with the knowledge of Thy laws that casting out all fear he (she they) may grow in grace as he (she they) labours in Thy holy service; through Christ our Lord C Amen

P The Lord is in you - blessing +

C And in you is the Spirit - blessing +

P Rest in the Eternal with God will be granted

C The light perpetual will shine upon them (her him)

P Ite missa est

C Deo gratias

THE BLESSING OF GOD ALMIGHTY, THE FATHER + SON AND HOLY GHOST

IS UPON ALL, BOTH THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (DECEASED) C AMEN

(Hymn)