Proposition 1 (anglais)

These texts may be read in part of in their entirety. If desired, one or several rosaries may be interspersed throughout. One may also consult the chapter “Texts for Meditation”.

 

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen

With confidence, let us pray together to the Almighty God, who resurrected from the dead his only Son, Jesus Christ. May he grant us strength and courage during this ordeal. May he nourish our hope in eternal life.

 

 

Let us pray.

God, who is our Creator and our Father, we are here, united close to You and close to N. who has left us. Our hearts turn to You. You can give us the comfort of hope, even while this separation feels definitive. For those who believe in your fatherly love, death cannot be the definite end of our life. Open our hearts to your Word of love and life. May your Spirit speak to our spirit. May we find in your Word a light in this hour of sadness, certitude in our moments in doubt, comfort in our pain, and strength in our weakness.

 

God the Father, we pray to you with confidence in the name of your beloved Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, Him who lives with you in communion with the Holy Spirit forever and ever.

Amen.

 

 

A Reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah (25, 6a. 7-9)

 

On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of meats and the finest of wines. On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. The Lord has spoken. In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”

 

 

Psalm 16

 

Response/ Keep my soul at peace, close to you, Lord.

 

Keep me safe, O God,

for in you I take refuge.

I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord;

apart from you I have no good thing.”

 

LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;

you have made my lot secure.

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

surely I have a delightful inheritance.

 

I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;

even at night my heart instructs me.

I have set the LORD always before me.

Because he is at my right hand,

I will not be shaken.

 

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;

my body also will rest secure,

because you will not abandon me to the grave,

nor will you let your Holy One see decay.

 

 

The Gospel according to John (6:37-40)

 

Jesus said to the crowd: “Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. And 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 them on the last day.”

 

 

Joint Prayer

 

Together, we have heard the Word of God who invites us to hope. May our prayer now be unanimous.

 

Response/ Sure of your love and strengthened by faith, Lord, we pray to you.

 

Let us pray for N. who has left us; bring him (her) Lord into the joy of resurrection.

 

Let us pray for our faithful deceased: accept, Lord, all the good that they have accomplished here below, forgive their sins and greet them into eternal life.

 

Let us pray for those today in mourning: may your love, Lord, appease the pain of separation.

Let us pray for ourselves and for all men: give peace to the world, Lord, and help us grow in love of our brothers.

 

 

Conclusion:

 

In the face of death, that tests us and makes us suffer, we turn towards God. Lord Jesus, you who pleaded to you Father in your agony, help us to repeat with all confidence:

 

Our Father…Hail Mary… Glory Be …

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

 

If a priest is present, he may bless the people in attendance.