Wallace Thompson, the secretary of the Evangelical Protestant Society, said on a BBC Radio Ulster programme that he would encourage Protestants to refrain from using the term "RIP". In 2017, members of the Orange Order in Northern Ireland called on Protestants to stop using the phrase "RIP" or "Rest in Peace". Use in various religions Irish Protestantism
This is associated with the Christian doctrine of the particular judgment that is, that the soul is parted from the body upon death, but that the soul and body will be reunited on Judgment Day. When the phrase became conventional, the absence of a reference to the soul led people to suppose that it was the physical body that was enjoined to lie peacefully in the grave. It became ubiquitous on the tombs of Christians in the 18th century, and for High Church Anglicans, Methodists, as well as Roman Catholics in particular, it was a prayerful request that their soul should find peace in the afterlife. The phrase was first found on tombstones some time before the fifth century. It has been interpreted variously as an "inscription relating to the Jews of France", or as a Jewish inscription. In the common phrase "Requiescat in pace" the "-at" ending is appropriate because the verb is a third-person singular present active subjunctive used in a hortative sense: " rest in peace."Ī 7th-century gravestone from Narbonne beginning with requiescunt in pace. If "Rest in peace" is used in an imperative mood, it would be "Requiesce in pace" (acronym R.I.P.) in the second person singular, or "Requiescite in pace" in the second person plural. The word order is variable because Latin syntactical relationships are indicated by the inflexional endings, not by word order. Other variations include "Requiescat in pace et in amore" for " rest in peace and love", and "In pace requiescat et in amore". In the Tridentine Requiem Mass of the Catholic Church the phrase appears several times. The phrase dormit in pace (English: " sleeps in peace") was found in the catacombs of the early Christians and indicated that "they died in the peace of the Church, that is, united in Christ." The abbreviation R.I.P., meaning Requiescat in pace, "Rest in peace", continues to be engraved on the gravestones of Christians, especially in the Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican denominations.
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