enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: dust to scripture read funerals and cremation flowers for men

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Matthew 6:28 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_6:28

    France notes that flowers were less specifically defined in that era, and lily could be a word referring to any showy variety. [5] The verse could also just mean flowers in general, rather than a specific variety. "In the field" implies that these are the wildflowers growing in the fields, rather than the cultivated ones growing in gardens.

  3. Christian burial - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_burial

    Anyone is allowed to read, and the family and friends will often take turns reading the psalms throughout the night up until it is time to take the body to the church. If the deceased was a priest or bishop the reading is done by the higher clergy (bishops, priests and deacons) and instead of reading the Psalter, they read from the Gospel Book ...

  4. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave...

    After hearing John Wayne's reading, script writer John Carpenter featured the poem in the 1979 television film Better Late Than Never. [1]: 426 [12] [13] A common reading at funerals and remembrance ceremonies, the poem was introduced to many in the United Kingdom when it was read by the father of a soldier killed by a bomb in Northern Ireland ...

  5. A Psalm of Life - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Psalm_of_Life

    Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...

  6. 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.

  7. Pall (funeral) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pall_(funeral)

    A funeral procession arriving at a church. The coffin is covered with an elaborate red and gold pall. From the Hours of Étienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet. (Musée Condé, Chantilly) A pall (also called mortcloth or casket saddle) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. [1] The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak), through ...

  8. Prayer for the dead - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_for_the_dead

    A passage in the New Testament which is seen by some to be a prayer for the dead is found in 2 Timothy 1:16–18, which reads as follows: . May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy on that day); and in how many ...

  9. 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]

  1. Ad

    related to: dust to scripture read funerals and cremation flowers for men