Tag: funerals
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The Brave New World of Parish Funerals
LIZETTE LARSON — Part of the reality in the United States (and elsewhere) is an in ability to talk about death.
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Through a Glass, Dimly
COVID-19 Shaping Spiritual Communities COVID-19 dwells in the space between us. So we keep our distance. One nursing home in Cincinnati plans to use plexiglas to facilitate scheduled interactions for residents as the nation opens back up. Some people already visit their loved ones through windows. And Zoom meetings? How strange I have become to…
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A Conveniently Delayed Funeral
In as a commodity driven society as is the United States, does a growing practice of delaying funerals inadvertently turn death into something that “fits into our schedules?” Does it communicate, “While grandma’s death was inconvenient, her funeral will not be.”
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Memorial at the Dojo
One thing that united all my Summer 2018 deaths was that all of the individuals (or their mourners) belonged to the ecclesial categories of “none” or “done” that we have become familiar with.
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The Sign of the Cross
Have you noticed how liturgical autopilot is creeping in?
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The stational nature of funeral rites
Cory Iverson’s “funeral procession”