Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons.
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Examples for "requiem "
1 The requiem mass is being held at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
2 He was deeply moved by the occasion; his address was a requiem .
3 And the white-barred river near it sings a requiem all the while.
4 They flashed beams vertically at the ceiling; a signal, or a requiem .
5 The ringing in the coffin is the new requiem ... No one answers.'
1 The requiem mass is being held at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
2 A solemn requiem mass was chanted, thus adding to the solemnity of the occasion.
3 Helena's young nephew Ryan was buried in an adjoining plot following his requiem mass yesterday.
4 The boy's funeral took place after requiem mass in St Baithin's Church, St Johnston this morning.
5 Jonathan has had help putting together his requiem mass from his long-time partner, and a priest-friend.
1 I am going to Kamenskaya's to attend a mass for the dead .
2 Here, in the deep shade, a solemn mass for the dead was chanted.
3 There had been no mass for the dead in the chapel and no procession.
4 The following day had been appointed for the mass for the dead in St. Sebald's Church.
5 There the mass for the dead was chanted, the responses being sung by a choir of silvery boyish voices.
6 But there are some who say one mass for the dead , and another of the day, if need be.
7 Hear the mass for the dead , and bend a penitent knee to Tomas so he might hear the priest's advice.
8 Had a choir been present, as the composer intended, they would have been singing the Latin mass for the dead .
9 REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites.
10 The body of Jacques Colis had been removed to a side chapel, where, covered with a pall, it awaited the mass for the dead .
11 The Romish mass for the dead begins with "Requiem eternam" (eternal rest), whence Requiem denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music.
12 With the cessation of saying masses for the dead its religious character expired.
13 It began with Igor Stravinsky's solemn requiem from the Mass for the Dead .
14 Masses for the dead were ordered there, in uninterrupted succession, by these poor peasants.
15 Now prayers and Masses for the dead are to be found in every ancient liturgy of the Church.
16 Of the Mass for the Dead .
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