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Funeral Plans?

Perhaps because I’m getting older, I’ve started to think about what my “end of life” celebration/service might look like. Over the years, including fairly recently, I’ve asked peop...

When the Lord Himself Performs Shraddha – The Living Tradition of Funeral Offerings at Puri Jagannath Temple

 Four Parents, One Lord: The Profound Shraddha Tradition of Jagannath Puri In the ancient and sacred city of Puri in Odisha, where the waves of the Bay of Bengal echo the...

When Many Depart Together — Understanding Sanghata Shraddha in Hindu Dharma

Sanghata Shraddha — The Sacred Rite of Collective RemembranceIn Hindu Dharma, the Shraddha ceremony stands as one of the most solemn and indispensable obligations a living person o...

RCT 79: Extreme Unction 1: Institution.

-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 328-333. -The Sacraments, ep. 31. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/

Meaningful Funeral & Memorial Planning

How to Make Funerals and Memorials Meaningful: Planning a Send‑Off That Reflects Your Life Planning how you want to be remembered may feel uncomfortable, but it is one of the most...

NIGHT PRAYER: Memorial Day

I've offered this post for the last couple of years - I can't imagine a better Night Prayer for the close of Memorial Day! Please be sure to play the Taps widget before going on to...

What a Priest and a Mortician Teach About Dying Well

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Sacred Remembering: Memorial Day and the Eucharist

Every year at the end of May, the United States observes Memorial Day, a civic holiday that pays honor to those men and women of the armed services who gave their lives in the serv...

Funeral service held for woman killed in Thessaloniki arson attacks

The funeral of Vagia Nestora, a woman who died in a fatal arson attack at her home in northern Greece, was held on Thursday at the Metropolitan Church of St. Nicholas in the city o...

Πλήθος κόσμου στην κηδεία του Βασίλη Λεβέντη

Η εξόδιος και η ταφή του Βασίλη Λεβέντη θα τελεστεί στο Κοιμητήριο του Πανοράματος Βούλας με πλήθος κόσμου να δίνει το παρών

Mourners Throng Funeral For Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei

Nasser Karimi et al, AP Mourners dressed in black flooded into Iran's capital Monday for a procession as part of the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wit...

How The Toraja People Of Indonesia Honor Their Dead With Some Of The Most Unique Funerary Rituals On Earth

The Toraja people treat death as just another phase of life — so much so that they tend to the corpses of their deceased loved ones as if they were still alive. The post How The T...

NIGHT PRAYER: Tuesday 7/7

I received word this afternoon that Gary Daigle has passed over to eternal life.  Since the 1970's Gary has been a composer, arranger and producer of liturgical music; a campus min...

Nonprofit plans fund-raiser for people needing funeral, burial assistance

The Final Farewell Project will host a Celebration of Life summer fund-raiser to raise money for people who need assistance with funeral and burial expenses.

Worshipping the Rising Son: The Temple, the Lamb, and Facing East

What happens after we die? Someone once gave examples to help formulate an answer. His help was in the form of questions: Have you tried to describe a rainbow to a man born blind?...

Regulate new funerary methods, Law Commission recommends

THE regulation of new funerary methods — including “water cremations” and human composting — has been recommended by the Law Commission of England and Wales. The independent statu...

Visiting a Soldier’s Funeral in Ukraine

The New York Times reporter Kim Barker visited a church in Lviv, Ukraine, that holds military funerals at the same time each day.

NIGHT PRAYER: Sunday 7/12

On Sundays, Night Prayer takes its lead from an element from the day's liturgy. Tonight's prayer is based on the first reading at mass today... 

Vietnam's former imperial city Hue seeks to make funerals solemn, brief, encourages cremation

The central city of Hue has new restrictions for funeral ceremonies: they can last no more than 72 hours and joss paper cannot be scattered during the procession.

Funeral prayer of martyred cop offered in police line Peshawar

Funeral Prayers for MPA Nadeem Kharal Offered in Khairpur

Slain Rittman Police Sgt. Scott Ries remembered for a life of service

Hundreds gathered Friday to honor the fallen officer. Funeral services for Christine McWilliams and her 13-year-old daughter, McKinley, are scheduled for Saturday.

A final journey together: Kerala temple’s noble act gives everyone a resting place

A public graveyard owned by the Sree Periyattappan Mahadeva Temple at Cheruthoni in the State’s Idukki district serves as a model for religious unity, as it holds over 200 graves b...