In Paradisum

In gratitude, thank you, Pope John Paul II, for your service to God and man.

In these moments of rememberance of John Paul's passing, the text of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem comes to mind. An appropriate text for this solemn occasion; the Latin words and a fitting King James Bible English translations are as follows:

In paradisum deducant angeli:
in tu adventu suscipiant te martyres,
et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jeruslaem.
Chorus angelorum te suscipiat,
et cum Lazaro quondam paupere
aeternam habeas requiem.

(Archaic King James English)
May the angels receive thee in paradise:
at thy coming may the martyrs receive thee,
and bring thee into the Holy City, Jerusalem.
There may the choir of angels receive thee,
and with Lazarus, once a beggar,
may'st thou have eternal rest.


Thank you, Christ's body in the Catholic church, for giving us the non-Catholic members of the body, and to the world, Pope John Paul II.