Posted on 10/02/2015 11:34:57 AM PDT by NRx
A parish is in uproar after a crematorium's cross was taken down and stuffed in a cupboard to avoid offending non-religious visitors.
Around 40 per cent of funeral services held the crematorium are non-Christian so it was decided that the cross should be kept in a storage cupboard rather than behind the alter.
It will be brought out of the cupboard and put up on the wall for services at Accrington Crematorium in Burnley, Lancashire, only when requested.
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so, I’m, guessing they are going to begin removing all muslim symbols from public view too then huh?
Unlikely to be an issue since Islam prohibits cremation.
Aren’t all their visitors dead..... doesn’t the funeral home pick up the ashes for a memorial at another location . Who the hell holds a goodby uncle buck party at the incinerator ? Is there seating for 100 of the deceased’s family and friends in the embalming room as well ?
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I meant removed from all public places, not just crematoriums lol
As a Christian who has had one family member cremated and plans the same for himself, I’m good with this.
It’s not a church.
It is a facility for holding funerals for anybody who wishes to purchase that service.
Keeping the cross, and other specific paraphernalia, stored until wanted by a customer is a sensible practice.
Naturally. The process of de-Christianization has begun.
I don’t think the Cross of Our Lord is classifiable as “paraphernalia”. I just want to be on record stating that.
Don’t laugh. A coworker died & interment was in the local mausoleum. Funeral service in the mortuary chapel with military honors.
But then there was a separate gathering at the open niche, with tent & chairs. Cemetery workers rode a hi-jack up & lined the niche floor with PVC pipe for rollers. As we watched.
They then rode with the casket up to the open niche where they both shoved it in like a torpedo (the niche is two caskets deep). Then sealed the niche.
Not much ceremony there.
I have twice been to funerals at a crematorium in the UK. Neither ‘service’ had anything remotely religious in the text. I am surprised there are any crosses in the buildings at all. I guess it’s having been brought up with faith, but the ‘services’ in the crematorium just gave me the creeps. After each service, the casket went, sort of like on a conveyor belt, through a curtain and then into the oven I guess. Totally cold and unemotional tribute to each departed person. Britain has been Socialist so long, there really isn’t much religion left over there.
Your thought is noted.
Please note my thought that the Cross of our Lord is not, to my knowledge, present anywhere except as scattered fragments...and those of doubtful provenance. Images are...images.
Also that the living Presence is of much greater importance than any physical object.
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