the bodies of the nuns who have died in this holy place -- all the humble sisters who over the decades have guarded the shrine of saint cuthbert -- shall rest side-by-side under the dust of our grass-grown graveyard , as if merely asleep , until to rise again on the day of judgment , when the lord 's trumpet shall sound , and all the dead shall come forth from lonely tombs to render their accounts to him , and the spirits of the righteous shall be lifted on the arms of angels and shall forever reign with christ where sorrow shall vanish , envy shall fade away , and pain and lamenting shall flee before the shining faces of the saints .