Mrs. Valerie Potkins, R.I.P.

On Wednesday 4th August
we celebrated Requiem Mass
for the soul of our dear friend
Mrs. Valerie Potkins, R.I.P.
of Worthing, England.

The Mass was offered at 10.30 a.m.
which was the same time
that her funeral Mass was being offered in England.


O God, Whose nature it is ever to have mercy and to spare:
we suppliantly entreat Thee
on behalf of Thy handmaid Valerie
whom Thou hast this day bid to pass out of this life;

deliver her not we beseech Thee, into the hands of the enemy,
nor be Thou unmindful of her for ever:
but command that she be taken up by Thy holy angels,
and borne to our home in heaven: ...

that having put her faith and trust in Thee,
she may not undergo the pains of hell,
but obtain the joys of everlasting life.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son
Who livest and reigneth with Thee
in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
One God for ever and ever. Amen.

[Collect for the Mass of Burial]

IN Paradisum deducant te Angeli,
in tuo adventu suscipiant te Martyres,
et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.

Chorus Angelorum te suscipat
et cum Lazaro, quondam paupere,
aeternam habeas requiem.

(MAY the angels lead thee into Paradise;
at thy coming may the Martyrs receive thee,
and bring thee into the holy City, Jerusalem.

May the Choir of Angels receive thee,
and with Lazarus, once a beggar,
mayest thou have eternal rest.)

Requiem aeternam dona ea Domine;
et lux perpetua luceat ea.
Requiescat in pace. Amen.

(Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord;
and let perpetual light shine upon her.
May she rest in peace. Amen.)