Every time I attend a funeral, I take one of those prayers cards stacked near the sign-in book. You know, the ones with the person’s dates of birth and death and sometimes a holy picture ...

Funeral or prayer cards are frequently distributed at funerals as mementos of the deceased. They can also be valuable in genealogical research. (Photo by Danny Klein) When I first started ...

The second station, and the central act of the Body of Christ, is the Mass of Christian Burial; what most people think of as the funeral. There is an option for this prayer to be celebrated ...

One common theme, however, is that Christian belief ... body to be visible during a funeral service or ceremony. Attendees are welcome to approach the casket with prayers or thoughts.

What I bought was a small pleather portfolio stuffed with 18 funeral cards—Catholic ... and brief prayers or poems. The lure of memorial cards extends beyond a morbid fascination with death.

Christian funerals, including the different ceremonies and beliefs about death in the Church of England and Catholic Church. They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion ...

At the service, Sarah read one of her mother’s favorite poems, Elizabeth’s younger sister told an amusing story about their childhood, the chaplain from the nursing home read Psalm 23 and prayed a ...

Christian funerals, including the different ceremonies and beliefs about death in the Church of England and Catholic Church. Christians believe that when someone dies, they are judged by God.