O Jesus, lover of souls, we recommend to you the souls of
all those your servants who have deported with the sign of
faith and sleep the sleep of peace. We beseech you, O Lord
and Saviour, that, as in your mercy to them you became man,
so now you would hasten the time, and admit them to
your presence above. Remember, O Lord, that they are your
creatures, not made by strange gods, but by you, the only
Living and True God; for there is no other God but you, and
none that can equal your works.
Let their souls rejoice in your light, and impute not to them
their former iniquities, which they committed through
the violence of passion, or the corrupt habits of their fallen
nature. For, although they have sinned, yet they always
firmly believed in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and
before they died, they reconciled themselves to you by true
contrition and the Sacraments of your Church.