Posted on 05/19/2015 7:15:36 AM PDT by Salvation
On a side note, that is some very impressive bling.
Thanks, I did not know that. Any idea just who the relic is?
And just how many angels CAN dance on the head of a pin?
amen, this is true and it think if GOD can make us from dust or give the ones blsted to tiny pieces in war a new body it wii be no problem for him to do the same for the ones choosing cremation. the ones saying that GOD would not be able to give someone a new resurrection body do not know the same GOD i do because the the word impossible does not exist in HIS vocabulary.
I know of 2 cemeteries around here who will just wrap you up and put you in the ground. No casket or vault. Just like people were buried for centuries. The idea appeals to me and I’m going to check it out as far as cost. I don’t think they embalm either but not sure about that. I don’t see why they would.
First thing on the to do list is that you are actually dead when the cremation happens. That pounding on the casket when they turn up the heat is disconcerting to those present....
This part caught my eye:
“Church clearly prefers and urges that the body of the deceased be present for the funeral rites, since the presence of the human body better expresses the values which the Church affirms in those rites”
...this statement seems to conflict with it:
“Proper interment should not be delayed. Ideally it should take place the day of the funeral”
What are you talking about? I’ve never witnessed such behavior.
Yeah, I saw it the first time. And I think it’s some pretty narrow theological thinking to say that bodies shouldn’t be put on display but putting them in a glass walled tomb is okay.
**“Proper interment should not be delayed. Ideally it should take place the day of the funeral”**
Exactly!
At mob funerals it was common....
I’d rather be pounding for a few minutes then buried in the ground pounding on the walls in the dark for however long it would take to actually die.
“**“Proper interment should not be delayed. Ideally it should take place the day of the funeral”**”
The part I don’t get is that an earlier statement indicated that ideally the body be present for the funeral...implying that merely having cremated remains was not preferred. But the logistics of having the body at the funeral and cremated and buried that day seem impossible?
the church prefers that the body be present for the funeral and then the body buried the same day.
if cremation, then cremated remains at the funeral and buried the same day.
the new method will be to bury first, and then have the funeral later. As long as the funeral home has to follow the body around for a few days ... to a wake, to a funeral, to the cemetery: the bill keeps running up. about $15,000 in Connecticut.
Solution: bury the person. then do a funeral etc. Cost:
$ 5000
that is the new way and the Church in America will hafta get used to it, now that the funeral business has been taken away from the church and in the hands of a protected class of business.
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