Thank You.
That was the design printed on the card sent to me thanking me for the funeral conducted for the deceased whom I had tried to visit in the hospital last month. The same deceased family whom I was wondering if they were concern for the priest visit at the hospital when the deceased was in ICU then.
Anyway, it was thoughtful of them to sent a thank-you card as this is the first one I received since I started doing funeral services in this parish. They said "We will always remember the beautiful ceremony you conducted in the church ". I was, initially, rather reluctant to celebrate the funeral for them but I thought it was the only Christian and compassionate thing to do and the deceased deserved a decent farewell. So, my entire focus for that celebration was for the deceased and I was having mixed feelings about how the rest of the family were taking to the funeral mass as half of them were non-Catholic.
Now I know.
That was the design printed on the card sent to me thanking me for the funeral conducted for the deceased whom I had tried to visit in the hospital last month. The same deceased family whom I was wondering if they were concern for the priest visit at the hospital when the deceased was in ICU then.
Anyway, it was thoughtful of them to sent a thank-you card as this is the first one I received since I started doing funeral services in this parish. They said "We will always remember the beautiful ceremony you conducted in the church ". I was, initially, rather reluctant to celebrate the funeral for them but I thought it was the only Christian and compassionate thing to do and the deceased deserved a decent farewell. So, my entire focus for that celebration was for the deceased and I was having mixed feelings about how the rest of the family were taking to the funeral mass as half of them were non-Catholic.
Now I know.
2 comments:
A thank you always makes one feel that efforts have not been in vain :) They don't come that often to us who do the physical equivalent, either!
All else aside, what better form of succouring for the dead than to offer up the sacrifice of the altar?
"Yet how quickly we could empty purgatory if we but really wished to." -- St John Vianney, Cure d'Ars
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