354 - Burial

1. Into paradise may the angels lead you.

At your coming may the martyrs receive you,

and bring you into the holy city Jerusalem.

2. May the choirs of angels welcome you,

and with Lazarus who once was poor

may you have peace everlasting.

Words: Latin; tr. The Book of Common Prayer, 1979, and Theodore Marier (b. 1912) Music: In paradium, plainsong, Mode 7 and Mode 8; Graduale Romanum, 1974