Memorial prayer cards
A card to hand out at a funeral or a memorial: a name, dates and an optional photo on the front, and on the back a prayer exactly as a named edition printed it, with that source under it. Free, with no account, and made in your browser.
Eternal Rest. The Catholic prayer asking rest and light for those who have died, known by its Latin opening, Requiem aeternam. It closes the psalms of the Office of the Dead, it is said in the funeral rite itself, and it is prayed on its own for the dead, above all in November, the month that begins with All Souls' Day on 2 November. The card prints it from A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, 1889, page 543. Make an Eternal Rest card.
Choose a prayer
Each prayer opens its own card maker. A prayer that belongs to more than one tradition is listed under each.
Christian
- Psalm 23 English, Spanish, French
- Psalm 91 Spanish, English
- The Beatitudes English, Spanish
- The Lord's Prayer English, Spanish, French
Catholic
- Anima Christi English
- Eternal Rest, a prayer for the dead English
- Psalm 130 English
- Psalm 23 English, Spanish, French
- Salve Regina English
- The Beatitudes English, Spanish
- The Hail Mary English
- The Lord's Prayer English, Spanish, French
- The Memorare English
Orthodox
- Christ is Risen English
- O Heavenly King English
- The Trisagion English
- With the Saints Give Rest English
Protestant
- A Prayer of St Chrysostom English
- For a Sick Child English
- For the Absent English
- For the Recovery of a Sick Person English
- In Time of Great Sickness and Mortality English
- Psalm 121 English
- Psalm 130 English
- Psalm 23 English, Spanish, French
- The Collect for Aid against All Perils English
- The General Thanksgiving English
Buddhist
- Karaniya Metta Sutta English
Three ways to print
- Six cards on a letter sheet, for a home printer: fronts on one page, backs on the other, with cut marks. Card stock works if your printer takes it.
- One card for a print shop: a PDF of the front and the back, each 2.75 by 4.5 inches with the 0.125 inch bleed a shop trims to the standard 2.5 by 4.25.
- A program insert: a half-letter page for a funeral or memorial program, two to a letter sheet. A prayer too long for a card is offered this way.
What the back says
Every card prints the edition its words come from, how the wording was checked, the prayer’s address on this site and a text version. If a text is ever corrected, the correction is listed with its date on the corrections page, so a card kept for years can still be checked. The words themselves cannot be edited: a card that named an edition and then changed its words would be citing something it does not print.
Why some traditions have no card here
A card is printed by the hundred and handed out, and many are later thrown away. Jewish practice treats paper that bears the divine name as something not to be discarded, and the text of the Qur’an carries rules of its own about how it is handled. Whether those texts belong on a card, and in what form, is for someone credentialed in each tradition to say. Nobody has signed anything on this site yet, so until someone does, those texts print from their own pages and are not offered as cards. Print a prayer text instead.
What stays on your device
The name, the dates and the photo never leave the browser tab you type them in. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is saved, and the PDF is your browser’s own Save as PDF. What this site keeps about you.