

The final couplet, Pie Jesu, has been often reused as an independent song. The first melody set to these words, a Gregorian chant, is one of the most quoted in musical literature, appearing in the works of many composers. An English version is found in various Anglican Communion service books. It is best known from its use in the Roman Rite Requiem ( Mass for the Dead or Funeral Mass). The poem describes the Last Judgment, the trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God, where the saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames.

It is a medieval Latin poem characterized by its accentual stress and rhymed lines. The sequence dates from the 13th century at the latest, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to St. 1294), lector at the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome. " Dies irae" ( Ecclesiastical Latin: "the Day of Wrath") is a Latin sequence attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscans (1200–1265) or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. Centre panel from Memling's triptych Last Judgment ( c. We should live and serve not by our natural power, but by the power of Christ's resurrection.For other uses, see Dies irae (disambiguation).

Paul said that he desired to know Christ and the power of His resurrection that he might be conformed to Christ's death (Phil. It is in this way that we are transformed. He gives us the cross to bear, but He also supports us with the power of His resurrection. His power of resurrection is sufficient for us. The only way we can be really one is by the application of the cross and the power of Christ's resurrection. This is why we need to be joined together and knit together. We do not want people to see divisions or opinions. How could all these peoples be one Body? There is one Body in the universe, and we express it here on earth for all to see (see chorus of Hymns, #1107). The peoples of this earth are all so different. In the Lord's recovery, all of the races with all the different colors-white, black, yellow, brown, and red-are blended together. You have to be joined to me and I have to be joined to you. This means that in the church life, we have to be one. The believers are supported with the power of Christ's resurrection in long-suffering, in the uniting bond of peace, and in all the positive needs for joining together and knitting together and for the rich supply of every joint and the operation in measure of each one part.
