Category: Funerals/Burial
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Tolling Bells for Justice
Imagine an entire city of bells, ringing once every five seconds, each solemn chime as an offer of consolation for every gun shot, a symbol of dignity accorded to every life lost to injustice.
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Liturgy Lines: Catholic Cremation and the Columbarium
One could even imagine some elements of the rite of committal being incorporated into the Sunday Mass with a final procession to the columbarium.
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Geneviève Noufflard
She was one of the three secretaries of Père Joseph Gelineau, SJ, becoming his PA for many years and also accompanying him on many foreign trips as his interpreter.
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Ad Resurgendum cum Christo
Whatever the motivation that led Cardinal Müller and the CDF to issue the Instruction on creamation, it changes nothing for us in North America.
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Viewpoint: Rediscovering the Authentic Catholic Vision of Purgatory
The pain of purgatory, then, is not the pain of divine punishment and wrath, but the pain of growth and transformation, the pain of breaking out of the old self into the new.
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CDF Issues Instruction on Cremains
This new document explicitly seeks to clarify and reinforce existing canonical and liturgical (ritual) norms already in force. But the Congregation notes that in many regions cremation is markedly increasing, making a reiteration of the norms and their theological bases advisable.
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Plan ahead
In the “denial of death” culture in which we live, it was startling to see. To me as a Catholic, however, it makes perfect sense.
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Paul J. Philibert, OP, has died
A noted scholar and teacher, Fr. Philibert was a senior fellow at the Aquinas Institute in St. Louis at the time of his death.