Give Rest

Give rest, O Christ,
to your servant with the saints:

Where sorrow and pain are no more,
neither sighing, but life everlasting.

You only are immortal, the creator
and maker of all:
and we are mortal, formed from the dust of the earth,
and unto earth we shall return.

For so you ordained when you
created me, saying:
'Dust you are and to dust you shall return'.

All of us go down to the dust,
yet weeping at the grave we make our song:

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Give rest, O Christ, to your servant with the saints:

Where sorrow and pain are no more,
neither sighing, but life everlasting.

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