Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB

Sacred Music for the Liturgy

by Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB. Copyright 2018-2026 Saint Meinrad Archabbey. All rights reserved.

Various Commemorations

In Masses for the Dead

About this day

Mass texts for the dead apart from the funeral and the anniversary. On receiving news of a death or at the final burial they may be celebrated even in the Octave of Christmas and on obligatory memorials, except on Ash Wednesday and in Holy Week.

Music

Mass

From the Missal

  • Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “May the Lord open to him…”
  • Communion — Roman Missal “Everything that the Father gives me…” Jn 6: 37
  • Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “I know that my Redeemer lives…” Job 19: 25, 26
  • Communion — Roman Missal “This is the bread that comes…” Cf. Jn 6: 50
  • Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “Eternal rest grant unto them, O…”
  • Communion — Roman Missal “God sent his Only Begotten Son…” 1 Jn 4: 9
  • Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “God so loved the world that…” Jn 3: 16
  • Communion — Roman Missal “We await a savior, the Lord…” Phil 3: 20-21
Show 8 more
  • Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “Blessed are the dead who die…” Cf. Rv 14: 13
  • Communion — Roman Missal “Grant everlasting rest to them, O…”
  • Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “In you, O Lord, I put…” Cf. Ps 30: 2
  • Communion — Roman Missal “I am the light of the…” Jn 8: 12
  • Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “Let the hearts that seek the…” Cf. Ps 104: 3-4
  • Communion — Roman Missal “Let your face shine on your…” Cf. Ps 30: 17-18
  • Entrance Antiphon — Roman Missal “Look, O God, on the face…” Ps 83: 10-11
  • Communion — Roman Missal “Like the deer that yearns for…” Cf. Ps 41: 2-3