Funeral Practices in a Changed Time and Culture

JOHN MCFADDEN AND JAMES M. DONOHUE, C.R., 2005

In life as in death, we belong to God: members of Christ’s own body and the communion of God’s saints. If our funerals and memorial services fail to make these joyous affirmations in ways that shape, form and sustain those who gather to worship, we will have served them poorly.