Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, by Gabriel Fauré
Requiem Mass for All Souls
With orchestra and St. Paul's Choir.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 114 Montecito Ave, Oakland, CA 94610
The Rev. Mauricio J. Wilson, rector. Ben Bachmann, Director of Music
All are invited to our Requiem Mass for All Souls on November 1, at which we will remember and celebrate the lives of all the beloved departed. We will present Gabriel Fauré’s beautiful, moving, and much-loved Requiem, offered as it was intended to be heard, in the context of the liturgy.
Fauré said of his Requiem, "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest." Fauré saw death as a "happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above."
The church will be illuminated with candles, and votive candles will be available for individuals to light. You are invited to submit the names of loved ones to be held in remembrance and listed in the service sheet. Please submit names by October 30 via email [email protected] or phone to the church office 510 834 4314, x501.
More information at stpaulsoakland.org