enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Funeral practices and burial customs in the Philippines

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_practices_and...

   A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.

3. Last rites - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_rites

   The last rites, also known as the Commendation of the Dying, are the last prayers and ministrations given to an individual of Christian faith, when possible, shortly before death. [1] The Commendation of the Dying is practiced in liturgical Christian denominations, such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church. [2]

4. Funeral - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral

   A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.

5. Catholic funeral - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_funeral

   Catholic funeral service at St Mary Immaculate Church, Charing Cross. A Catholic funeral is carried out in accordance with the prescribed rites of the Catholic Church.Such funerals are referred to in Catholic canon law as "ecclesiastical funerals" and are dealt with in canons 1176–1185 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, [1] and in canons 874–879 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. [2]

6. Antam Sanskar - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antam_Sanskar

   Cremation is the preferred method of disposal, although if it is not possible any other methods or if the person willed to be buried then burial or submergence at sea are acceptable. A memorial to the dead, gravestone, mausoleum etc. is not allowed, because the body is considered to be only the shell, the person's soul was their real essence. [2]

7. The Catholic Church’s Blessing of Same-Sex Couples, Explained

   www.aol.com/news/catholic-church-blessing-same...

   The Vatican’s newly released document addressing the blessing of same-sex couples doesn’t pave the way for gay weddings at churches or with Catholic priests as officiants.