You won’t regret it. Glad you did that. We have bought the cemetery plots and left directions in our wills about our Catholic funerals.
A quick story on this topic of funerals be bypassed. A few weeks ago, my wife’s 96 year old aunt passed away. She was a loving, kind and very devout Catholic woman. So when my wife got a call from one of this aunts children (her cousin) that there would be a “ Celebration of Life” , she just naturally blurted out what the heck is that! . The cousin gave some answer that it was going to be a happy event filled with memories etc to celebrate her aunt. Well , my wife, bless her heart, will tell it like it is…. She said that’s all nice and will be wonderful but after we all attend and pray for her soul at a funeral Mass. And it was followed by a mini catechisis that her mother being devout her entire life would absolutely want a Mass and while we all believe she lived a good life, God does the judging and we owe to her to pray fir her soul and for forgiveness of her sins. Well, thanks be to God, her cousin and the other children took a day or two to talk and then said yes this is right thing to do. I can say the funeral Mass was beautiful , reverent, and no doubt efficacious. And then we did all make it to a local restaurant and celebrated her life. Im not as brave as my wife… but what a wonderful service she did for her Aunt. We have told our kids , definitely a Mass for us. And I’ve also asked my wife for the 30 day Gregorian Masses. Im going to need a lot of prayer.
I Love the Irish Tradition of the Wake. Of staying awake for a period with the loved one who has died. Mystics tell us that very often the soul of the one who has died is permitted to linger on for a while to give comfort to their relatives and for closure. We all of us need time to grieve and to pray and to come to terms with things. Rushing through things like this is not good. We rush so many things these days. It was quite common in the old days that they devoted an entire week to mourning and more. I hate it at Funerals and Wakes when people feel bound to to only praise the person who has died. In a way this is to kill them again , to bury them with praise. It distorts who and what they were. It's simply not the truth and lies are always wrong. They have done surveys of people who have lost loved one and most of them report that they feel they have been visited by love ones in the immediate period after their death. But such things take time. If we are rushing about I think it makes it hard for loved ones to give us that last hug and reassurance that they are in a better place. It also gives them a chance to return and remind us they need our help in prayers. But we need to make time for this. We need to have Faith and to really know that there is a place of purification and expiation ..( Purgatory) and that folks do wind up there. In a big Hospital , death is an every nighter. We see groups of grieving relatives, the lights on outside the morgue with goings and comings. The black vans and darkly clad men of the undertakings. The bodies with the sheets pulled over the faces. But we also see the new mothers waiting patiently to hug the babies. The cries of new life. The joy, the wonder. Death is as much a part of life as birth. It is part of the wonder, the miracle of it all. We are all of us going to die. All of us without exceptions. None of us will avoid it. Life is very, very short. I think one of the reasons why there was such a crazy insane over reaction to Covid was that we stopped giving death time in our lives. Death is like a rich wine, we have to take time to sip it, to drink it down. Some things can be rushed, some things cannot. Death is a thing that cannot and should not be rushed. Psalm 103:15 Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
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Our FSSP priest preached on this at Sunday Mass just a few weeks ago. The whole homily was so outstanding my husband and I both agreed it was the best we've ever heard. But yeah, we have NEVER heard it mentioned from the pulpit before in all of our days at Novus Ordo parishes. I only knew cremation is inappropriate from my Catholic homeschooling days.
If I had this happen to my child? I would file a lawsuit and sell my house to buy the best lawyer I could buy to bring those criminals to their knees. This makes me SO mad.
Very interesting study…. And no surprise not being reported in MSM… https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/8/2219/htm Here is conclusion: “Our data suggest that there is no increase in the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis in COVID-19 recovered patients compared to uninfected matched controls. Further longer-term studies will be needed to estimate the incidence of pericarditis and myocarditis in patients diagnosed with COVID-19.” So, if you don’t get myocarditis or pericarditis from having had and survived a COVID infection, why so many cases and what could be causing it? Hmmmm…….
There's "research" out there all of a sudden saying young people take herbal supplements and that is what causes all the heart issues. Uh huh.
Unreal. I've also noticed some reports floating around on social media saying that vitamin D is pretty much useless.
VAIDS - COVID-19 vaccines update 58 "Dr. Mikolaj Raszek explains how the COVID jabs not only INCREASE the chance of the getting COVID (re)infections, but shingles too, and basically all other so-called infectious diseases. Ever more evidence is emerging of the jabs causing serious harm to the immune system, which not only increases your chance of getting infections, but also of cancer. After all, the immune system is imperative in killing cancerous cells. If the immune system is not functioning well, cancerous cells may grow unfettered."
I dislike v much speaking ill of priests... But a decent homily I have not heard in a very long time. All I seem to hear is the green agenda. I really wish they would preach with a little bit of fire.
The way the green movement is going, I suspect that being cremated could be one the better options available to us soon! Obtaining a ground burial takes means that not everyone has and should be considered a Grace for whoever can obtain it. Let's not forget to pray the Mercy Chaplet for those who for whatever reasons cannot have proper funerals or burials.
I can testify to this.. I never had someone close to me die before. I've been to many wakes, obviously,cat my age. But when my da died recently, I was carried along by his wake, in a way that I never thought possible. I'd been dreading his death. Didn't know how I'd cope. But his wake carried me through. Everyone comes. From the last rites given by the priest to his actual death, people just 'come in' - take over, their efforts you see and want to reciprocate. Old friends came. People I'd not seen in 20 or more years. It was just a sea of sympathetic faces. Knowing smiles. Hugs. Handshakes. Kisses. You don't get time to think about anything. Then, at the funeral, they're all there again. And they (and God) carry you through that part of it. Before you know it, the worst, the most difficult parts are over and you wonder how you did it! It's only later that you realise you were carried... People are fantastic. To this day people who hadn't heard, or couldn't make it approach with reverence and when in company offer a handshake 'to the side' and whisper in your ear their condolences. Other people who witness this know instinctively what is taking place and turn away politely for a few seconds. Aye. People are fantastic.
Sometimes people say kind things that remain with you forever. However I have noticed that at some Weddings and Funerals people sometimes end up fighting like cats and dogs. The poisons of a hundred years stream out. I suspect a lot of this has to do with lack of Faith. They cannot cope with death and so look for someone or something to blame. Organisations like Black Lives Matter work like this. Victims and blame.
