Prayer For The Dead Catholic Philippines

Almighty Father, to whom nobody asks without the hope of receiving, by the intercession of St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary, enable the suffering souls in purgatory to be able to leave that place, especially for the soul of ____________. We ask this through Christ, our Lord.


Lord our God, receive our supplications, prayers and mortifications and sighs in suffrage for the holy souls for whom we make this novena; and we pray that by the motherly love bestowed on you by your most holy Mother, when she followed you on the way of sorrow up to Mount Calvary, and grant what we ask of you in this novena for your greater honour and glory.


Grant, we beseech You, Almighty God, that the soul of Your servant, N., which has departed from this world, may be cleansed by this sacrifice, and delivered from sins, and may receive forgiveness and everlasting rest. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.


Be merciful, we implore You O Lord, to the soul of Your servant, N., for whom we offer to You this sacrifice of praise, humbly beseeching Your majesty that, by those holy and propitiary offerings, s/he may be found worthy to win everlasting rest. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.


O Eternal God, who besides the general precept of charity, has commanded a particular respect to parents, kindred & benefactors; grant, we beseech You, that as they were the instruments by which Your Providence bestowed on us our birth, education and innumerable other blessings, so our prayers may be the means to obtain for her/him a speedy release from her/his suffering, and free admittance to Your infinite joys, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.


O God, the Creator & Redeemer of all the faithful, grant to the soul of Your departed servant N. the remission of her/his sins; that by prayers, s/he may obtain that pardon which s/he has always desired. Grant this, O God, who lives and reigns forever & ever. Amen.


Most sweet Jesus, who in Your desire to redeem the world, deigned to be born, to be mocked, to fall into the hands of Your enemies through the treacherous kiss of Judas, to be bound and brought to the place of sacrifice like the meek lamb, brought before Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod, spat on, accused and condemned with false witnesses, to be slapped and have Your sacred body covered with wounds from the cruel scourging, to be crowned with thorns, Your face covered with a purple cloth in mockery, stripped of Your garments, nailed and elevated on the cross between two thieves as if You were one of them, offered gall and vinegar to drink, and to be pierced in Your side with a lance, deliver, O Lord, the souls in purgatory from their great sufferings through Your most bitter Passion; bring them to Your glory and deliver us from the pains of hell, through the merits of Your Holy Passion and Death on the Cross, so that we may enter that Kingdom where You brought the good thief who was crucified with You, who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit, One God forever and ever. Amen.


God our Father,
Your power brings us to birth,
Your providence guides our lives,
and by Your command we return to dust.

Lord, those who die still live in Your presence,
their lives change but do not end.
I pray in hope for my family,
relatives and friends,
and for all the dead known to You alone.

In company with Christ,
Who died and now lives,
may they rejoice in Your kingdom,
where all our tears are wiped away.
Unite us together again in one family,
to sing Your praise forever and ever.

Amen.