Commemoration For The Dead
"Memento etiam, Domine, famulorum famularumque tuarum N. et N., qui nos praecesserunt cum signo fidei et dormiunt in somno pacis. Ipsis, Domine, et omnibus in Christo quiescentibus, locum refrigerii, lucis et pacis, ut indulgeas, deprecamur. (Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.)" (Remember also, Lord, your servants men (Name) and (Name), who have gone before us with the sign of faith and rest in the sleep of peace. Grant them, O Lord, we pray, and all who sleep in Christ, a place of refreshment, light and peace. ).
The rubrics direct that, after the words "dormiunt in somno pacis" (rest in the sleep of peace), the priest joins his hands and prays briefly for them.
The Tridentine Missal has at the end of this prayer a rubric unparalleled in the rest of the book: at the final clause, "Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen", obligatory in that form of the Mass, the priest bows his head, although the clause does not contain the name of Jesus. The only explanation proposed is a mystic one: after the prayer for the dead the priest bows his head as Christ did when he died.
In a concelebrated Mass, this prayer and the following are said by individual concelebrants.
Read more about this topic: Text And Rubrics Of The Roman Canon
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