Go Forth, Christian Soul
Also known as Commendation of a Soul, Proficiscere.
Go forth upon thy journey, Christian soul!
Go from this world! Go, in the name of God
the omnipotent Father, who created thee!
Go, in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord,
Son of the living God, who bled for thee!
Go, in the name of the Holy Spirit, who
hath been poured out on thee! Go, in the name
of angels and archangels; in the name
of thrones and dominations; in the name
of princedoms and of powers; and in the name
of cherubim and seraphim, go forth!
Go, in the name of patriarchs and prophets;
and of apostles and evangelists,
of martyrs and confessors; in the name
of holy monks and hermits; in the name
of holy virgins; and all saints of God,
both men and women, go! Go on thy course;
and may thy place today be found in peace,
and may thy dwelling be the holy mount
of Sion, through the same, through Christ, our Lord.
Source. John Henry Newman's verse rendering of the Proficiscere, from The Dream of Gerontius, 1865.
On the wording. The Proficiscere is the Roman Ritual's first prayer for the dying and is attested in eighth century sacramentaries. Newman's verse is used here rather than the Ritual's prose because its public domain status is unambiguous. For a bedside where nobody can manage this, the last clause of the Hail Mary is the short form everyone already knows: now and at the hour of our death.