Also in our music, Dies Irae means day of wrath. Sung during Lent and funerals (pre 1962 funerals at least, now more often to hear stairway to heaven and on eag

Also in our music, Dies Irae means day of wrath. Sung during Lent and funerals (pre 1962 funerals at least, now more often to hear stairway to heaven and on eagles wings). I think without even understanding the chant reflecting on the music helps to better understand the intent of these reminders. The music is somber and melancholic yet wishful, it’s conflicted. It presents the intersection of two hard wired things. On the one hand, we profess in an afterlife which, for those in heaven, there is perfect everything and forever and on the other hand the cruelty of death. No one wants to die yet if we truly believe that death is just the beginning of forever and that forever is perfect why would one not desire death in this world of unknowing and misery. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBB5-bP6qs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBB5-bP6qs