355 Give rest, O Christ, to your servant(s) with your saints

The Hymnal 1982 355

Give rest, O Christ, to your servant(s) with your saints

Tune
kontakion [kievan chant]
Composer(s)
Walter Parratt, 1841-1924
Meter
Irregular
Text Source(s)
Eastern Orthodox Memorial Service; The Book of Common Prayer, 1979 (tr.)
Tune Source(s)
Eastern Orthodox Memorial Service

Give rest, O Christ, to your servant(s) with your saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting. You only are immortal, the creator and maker of mankind; and we are mortal, formed of the earth, and to earth shall we return. For so did you ordain when you created me, saying, “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” All of us go down to the dust; yet even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Give rest, O Christ, to your servant(s) with your saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting.

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