S4:16 EP58: Praying in Graveyards

This episode is all about the eerie melancholy and beauty of graveyards and why we should go pray, read poetry, and spend time in churchyards among the Dead.  Why graveyards can be peaceful and romantic - the importance of 'memento mori' - and three famous 'graveyard poems.' Ending the episode with some fantastic music from some bluegrass loving Friars. 

 

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"It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins."

Macabees 12:46

 

Prayer for Eternal Rest (The Requiem Prayer)

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,

and let perpetual light shine upon them.

May the souls of all the faithful departed,

through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Amen

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Requiem Prayer - Gregorian Chant

https://youtu.be/sjWjnhfEto8

 

Rite for Mass in Graveyards

http://www.ibreviary.com/m2/preghiere.php?tipo=Preghiera&id=224

 

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44299/elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard

 

- Church of St. Giles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Giles,_Stoke_Poges#/media/File:St._Giles_Stoke_Poges_1.jpg 

 

"In a disused graveyard" by Robert Frost

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148651/in-a-disused-graveyard

 

"The Moon and the Yew Tree" by Sylvia Plath

https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/sp-moon.htm

 

"Offering Mass for Sylvia Plath and The Beauty of Allhallowtide"

https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/mass-for-sylvia-plath-and-allhallowtide 

 

Music:

Blue Dot Sessions

 

British Countryside on an Autumn Morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IbKYmI_d7g 

 

Recommendation:

 

Hillbilly Thomists

https://www.hillbillythomists.com/about

 

"Sweet Prospect"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80wyEEAuIk4