Welcome! This website provides the essential texts for traditional Catholic funerals.
For adults, those rites can include:
For infants and children, those rites can include:
There are an enormous amount of resources on traditional Catholic funerals, partly because - as the list above shows - there are so many events involved.
Deep concern for the care of departed souls has resulted in an enormous amount of supplementary material on funerals, such as multiple masses for the anniversaries of the deceased, prayers on the day of death, special propers for the death of clergy, and prayers for the deceased’s family.
The resources are organized by age group. Everything connected to funerals for adults is in one place, and everything for funerals for children is in another.
Everything else - rubrics, prayers, Last Rites, catechesis, widowhood, and more - is under Planning.
A sister site to Latin Mass Wedding and Latin Mass Baptism.
Vespers, Lauds, and Matins from the Office for the Dead
The full text of the Missa Defunctorum
The full text of the Rite of Burial for Adults
The full text of the 1962 Rite of Burial for Children
The full text of the Votive Mass of the Holy Angels
About this website
Information on some Catholic burial customs
Resources about funerals, burials, and death
The full text of the Blessing of Mothers After Childbirth
Traditional commentaries on Scripture in the funeral and requiem rites
The sequence for the Requiem Mass
Resources about Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day
Music for the funeral and requiem rites
Resources on rubrics for funerals and related rites
Resources for those in mourning