and indeed ........................not the only one
today, in the R.C. world we celebrated All Souls' Day
The term is also used for similar ceremonies outside the Roman Catholic Church, especially in the
Anglo-Catholic tradition of
Anglicanism and in certain
Lutheran churches. A
comparable service, with a wholly different ritual form and texts, exists in the
Eastern Orthodox and
Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as in the
Methodist Church.
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The Mass and its settings draw their name from the
introit of the liturgy, which begins with the words "
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine" – "Grant them eternal rest, O Lord". ("Requiem" is the
accusative singular form of the Latin noun
requies, "rest, repose".) The Roman Missal as revised in 1970 employs this phrase as the first entrance
antiphon among the formulas for Masses for the dead, and it remains in use to this day.