Thomas Merton's Funeral Liturgy
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| Processional Hymn: | |
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| Collect: | |
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| First Reading and Responsorial Psalm: Jonah 1:1 - 2:2. |
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| Second Reading: Ephesians 1: 3 - 19a. |
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| Gospel Acclamation Chant: | |
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| Gospel: John 17: 24-26. |
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| Universal Prayer: | |
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| Offertory Procession Chant |
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| Cistercian Preface - Holy, Holy, Holy: | |
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| Eucharistic Canon |
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| Lords Prayer - Lamb of God |
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| Communion Psalm 33 - Taste and See: | |
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| Song of Mary: | |
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| Prayer after Communion |
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| Now Raise We Thanks to God: | |
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| Sonata in D Major: | |
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| Reading of a Text by Fr. Louis |
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| Invitatory Prayer - Trisagion Chant - Final Collect | |
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| Chants |
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| Blessing of Grave, Litany and Interment | |
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| Psalm 117 | |
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| Invitatory Prayer and Three-fold Supplication | |
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| Final Collect and Blessing | |
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O Lord God, |
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| Concluding Acclamation of the Risen Lord | |
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"A
Letter to Mother Laetitia About the Funeral of Fr. Louis" by Fr.
Chrysogonus Waddell.
Published in the journal Liturgy 4.1 (March
1970): 45-68.