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The funeral is best understood as a process of three stations, which are meant to order and guide both the prayer for the dead and the grief and sorrow of loved ones.

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The priest then reads a prayer of entrusting and commending. The committal: this is probably the most solemn moment of the service. At a burial, this is when the coffin is lowered into the grave.

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The prayer came late in the service, but Sorokin made sure to be present the whole time. “I was able to take my lunch hour at 2 o’clock, when the funeral was,” he recalls.