While previous chapters have focused on the deaths of Christians under roughly ordinary circumstances, this chapter turns to deaths precipitated by pandemics and natural disaster. The necrosima accordingly features a number of poems that address instances of mass death due to pandemic and pestilence. In both form and context of preservation, these hymns were manifestly part of their communities’ ritual repertoire. At the same time, however, they witness to periods in which ordinary ritual pathways had broken down. In the midst of sickness and bereavement, the hymns suggest, churches stood empty, clergy mourned the loss of their brothers, even burials had ceased in light of death’s relentless onslaught. This chapter examines the madrāshê in question as spaces for reconfiguring communities’ ritual practices. The necrosima’s pandemic hymns and other, roughly contemporaneous liturgical sources thus point to communities’ embrace of lament, petition, and penance as models for engaging the divine.