“Requiem” comes from the Latin for rest. The season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, a day when we remember that we are made of dust and to dust we shall return (Gen 3:19) – something more in line with the ways “requiem” now brings to mind music or worship rites related to death and burial.
Guiding Questions:
How might remembering our mortality and remembering our call to rest be related? At funerals, we say that in death our baptism is "made complete;" how do you encounter endings and beginnings coming together?