During the pope’s funeral someone named all the saints in Latin. Who did this and can a recording of this be bought? Has that person done anything else vocally that I can buy?
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Thanks, but I really want the version sang at the Pope’s funeral, the one done by Paul Moss. Actually, anything by Paul Moss would be good.
I recorded the Pope’s funeral for my mother. I’d be glad to make a VHS of that part of it for you, if you’d like. I don’t know if there’s a way to download it from my DishNetwork DVR to a DVD-R.
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Did they really do all of the canonized saints? Wow. Most times, they just hit the big names (Mary and Joseph, Peter, both Johns, Francis, etc.) and any who happen to be specifically significant (patrons of particular causes, baptism names, patron of the church where the ceremony is, etc.). Even at that, it can easily take five minutes or so.
But then, I suppose that if they’re ever going to do the full Litany of the Saints, the Pope’s funeral would be the place to do it.
I didn’t watch the Pope’s funeral, but in any liturgical situation where I’ve sung the Litany of the Saints, it doesn’t mention all of the canonised ones. The most common form (that used at the Easter Vigil each year) mentions only about 40, as well as multiple petitions to the Trinity and the BVM. There’s a longer version that is sung on the Rogation Days and at the solemn dedication of a church, but even that doesn’t invoke all of the saints.
I was having my coffee as they were doing the Litany of the Saints, and from what I could tell in the translation, it wasn’t the full litany (I don’t know when or if one has been done/recorded). There was a line (translated) that was something like “all you holy men and women”, which I assumed meant any saint not specifically named in the Litany.
Of course, there’s always more than you wanted to know about the Litany of the Saints.
You’d be there all day if you wanted to do all of them. In fact, you probably couldn’t even do all the saints that this pope named without taking a big chunk of your time.
There are presumed to be many more non-canonized saints than canonized ones, perhaps even many billions. Any person who is in Heaven is a saint; a canonized saint is just one who we know is in Heaven. So the “all you holy men and women” is a reference to all of the non-canonized saints. You’ll also note that earlier, when they mention Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, there’s also generally a call-out to all of the other angels, too: Angels are persons (though not human), and are in Heaven, and are therefore saints, but nobody knows how many of them there are.