This Sunday at the 9:00 a.m. Mass, I will be singing “Litanei” by Schubert. I will be singing this in German. The lyrics were written by J.G. Jacobi. Here is the English translation:
Rest in peace, all souls, Those that have done with care and suffering. Those that have fulfilled a happy dream, Those sated with life, those scarcely born….All who have passed from this world to the Beyond, All souls, rest in peace!
Souls of loving-hearted maidens, Those who shed uncounted tears, Whose false lovers deserted, And the blind world cast out…
All that have departed hence, All souls, rest in peace!
And those that have never smiled on sunshine, But beneath the moon waited, on thorns, To see God one day, face to face
In the pure light of Heaven….All souls that have departed hence, All souls, rest in peace!