Maronite Prayer of Incese for the Departed | صلاة وضع البخور (Arabic)

A hymn sung during memorial Masses, offered up for the soul(s) of the recently departed. This hymn originates from Syriac and has been translated into both Arabic and English (can be sung in the 3 languages). It is most commonly sung in Arabic.

English translation:
As we offer incense prayers with the scent of sweet perfume.
O Lord, we remember all the faithful who died. With true faith in you, O Lord, they received your body and your blood. Now they long for you and sleep in your hope.

Truly now, they sleep in faith resurrection is their hope; awaiting the Lord to come and give them their crown. That which eyes have never seen, ears have heard, nor heart has known, the glory prepared for them in heaven above.

Listen to the Son of God, telling of the fate of souls. When God calls them from the dead, they'll rise incorrupt. Those who chose to love the Lord, will receive eternal life, but those who refused him go to judgment and death.

It was unknown in the past, that there was eternal life, more sharp, then, the pain when Isaac mourned Abraham. But to Moses God appeared, speaking with him to reveal the just and the righteous live for ever with God.

May the prayers of Blessed Mary be with us, with your blessing.
See the ship upon the sea, bearing treasure on the waves, resisting the storms of life, she keeps to her course. Mary is that treasure ship, Christ the treasure which she bears, restoring salvation to a world without hope.

When the saints at trial stood, giving witness to the Lord,
they made Satan run for fear, they conquered deceit. Like gold tested in the fire, trials only strengthened you; triumphant your memory in heaven and earth.

May the departed rest in peace. Praise the Lord, with your blessing.
We commemorate the saints, who proclaimed the truth on earth, and martyrs who won the prize, receiving the crown. We commemorate the Church, and your Mother, Mary blest, and all of your faithful ones who sleep in your hope.

Give rest to your servant (servants), O Lord, in the kingdom of Heaven with all of your saints, and for ever.

O Son at the sound of your voice, the departed will rise, hear our prayer for the soul who has left us.

O Christ you once prayed to be spared, from the anguish of death. Spare us now from it Lord. Have compassion.

O Lord we exalt all the saints, and your Mother and ask them to pray for us all, and our loved ones.