Well, this weekend my family will be praying for the dead. A church friend is having a memorial service for her father, whom we have never actually met. But we are invited, and we will honor his life and stand with our friend.
I attended a funeral Mass today. It was the wife of one of my deceased uncles. (Actually, all of my uncles are deceased. The death of this lady leaves only one from my father’s generation still with us in my family. She was the wife of another uncle. My da had 10 brothers and sisters.)