The dead do not need our prayers For being dead they no longer experience the sufferings of living Yet their spirit roams in unseen realms And every spare thought, every loving recollection May speed them on their journey unto the pure light of Home
Requiem
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead or Mass of the dead, is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the souls of the deceased,
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine "Eternal rest grant them, O Lord"
A passage from the Liturgy of St James reads:
Remember, O Lord, the God of Spirits and of all Flesh, those whom we have remembered and those whom we have not remembered, men of the true faith, from righteous Abel unto to-day; do thou thyself give them rest there in the land of the living, in thy kingdom, in the delight of Paradise, in the bosom of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, our holy fathers, from whence pain and sorrow and sighing have fled away, where the light of thy countenance visiteth them and always shineth upon them.