To: sinkspur
Being essentially an act of communal prayer, committal also is liturgy, even if not sacramental. It's altogether unfitting to interrupt prayers for mercy with the insertion of what're essentially commercials, commending the dear departed to the faithful as moral example, and lobbying God to do His duty toward the late Great Guy.
Eulogies are a protestant phenomenon; they derive from pietist views of the Christian life as moral culture. That they subvert the Catholic ecclesial understanding of life-in-communion is the greatest argument to resist eulogies.
If there must be one at all, the proper place for a eulogy is at the wake.
9 posted on
06/20/2003 10:21:35 PM PDT by
Romulus
To: Romulus
I am learning a lot here. Thanks for the wisdom.
19 posted on
06/21/2003 8:11:50 AM PDT by
Salvation
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