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Download any song for 99c or click any song title below to listen. Please select from one of two ways to search. Funeral service for Vannassa W. Acreman of Conroe, Texas will be held on Monday, June 26, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. Naruto Shippuden 499: Hidden Leaf Story, the Perfect Day for a Wedding, Part 6: The Outcome of the Secret Mission. Our 5 Star Commitment To You. For over 20 years 5 Star Catering has been providing outstanding service and the highest quality catered food and beverages. Various ideas for Funeral and Wedding Homilies. Association of Catholic Priests“Building Blocks” for Funeral and Wedding Homilies. At an ACP AGM (2. Funeral Homilies. The same applies, if less urgently, to weddings as a recurring duty. We are expanding our “Liturgy Helps” to include a sub- section on recurring homilies. Fr. Pat Littleton wrote “What I have in mind is something short . I will then put the material online on our website as a resource. The pieces below are much longer than just “blocks” and I will welcome much shorter pieces. The point is to offer as wide a range of homily approaches as possible, to help our members bring fresh imagery to funerals and weddings. Below are some Funeral outlines and Wedding homilies I’ve. I collected so far. Please add more! Pat Rogers. Funeral Homilies. Remembering our priests. Excerpt from Diarmuid Martin’s homily at the mass for deceased priests on Nov. Here, for the full text. I never fail to be struck at the level of affection and recognition that people show at the funerals of priests. It is easy to take the presence and benefits of the sun for granted when it is overhead. But at its rising and setting, these are so clearly revealed to us that we cannot ignore them. Take the sun’s rising. Having extinguished the stars, ever so slowly, ever so gently it eases itself over the rim of the world. Up, up it comes from the great beyond, scattering light and radiating heat to the four corners of the earth. We are amazed at how large it appears. It is at its largest when it sits on the horizon, joining heaven and earth. It is no exaggeration to say that at this time it appears twice its normal size. It seems to pose there fleetingly, as if to show itself to us in all its brightness and freshness, before it starts to climb the sky and get on with the business of the day. And take the sun’s setting. Down, down it goes. Its rate of departure can be measured by the fading light and waning heat. As it retreats it appears to grow in size. It is at its largest when it meets the horizon. As at its coming, so at its going it seems to pose briefly on the edge of the world, as if to show itself to us in all its completeness one last time. Then, re- lighting the stars, it slips slowly and silently away into the great beyond from whence it came. Just as sunrise and sunset are very special moments in the day, so birth and death are very special moments in the life of a human being. At these moments we realise that each person is absolutely unique. At birth something comes into being that never was before. At death something passes away that will never be (on earth) again. People also seem larger to us at these two moments. We may take them for granted at other times but not at these two moments. At these two moments we are given a glimpse of their true worth and of the benefits they bestow on us. At birth and death we regard them not only as precious but sacred as well. Heaven and earth are joined together. We feel we are in the presence of mystery. Each person is a mystery. Each person is a gift from God. We could now talk about the qualities of the departed one and the blessings God gave us through his/her life. The sun has gone down for the last time on the life of N. It is from God we come when we enter life, and it is to him we go when we leave it. May God guard his (her) going as he guarded his (her) coming. And what lovely parting words he said to them. He told them that he loved them, and urged them to love one another. He spoke to them about the meaning of his life and death: . They have departed for that other shore, the shore of eternity. They have merely gone to God, and God is very near to us. Parting Time (Flor Mc. Carthy)Today we are saying goodbye to our sister (brother) N. If we Had no bonds with other people, the hour of parting would not be so sad. But who would want to live alone? Life is full of partings. No matter how close our relationships with our loved ones are, we still have to part with them from time to time. Sometimes parting can be very painful. The closer the bond we have with someone, and the longer the period of separation is likely to be, the more we feel the pain of parting. Why is parting so painful? Because it is only when we have to part with people that we realise how much we love them. Death is the most irrevocable parting of all. This time our loved one will not be returning. In the case of sudden death, we are not even given a chance to say goodbye. We would dearly love to take leave of our loved one warmly and tenderly, in a manner befitting a final farewell. Now we will never get a chance to say all that was in our heart. We will never get another opportunity to tell the loved one how much she (he) meant to us. The Gospel shows us that Jesus shared with us the pain of dying and of parting with his friends. His friends, for their part, were plunged into gloom at the thought of his leaving them. But he said to them, . But when evening comes, their wanderings cease and they find a destination. They begin to fly towards something definite. They fly towards home. Take the rooks for example. Darkness is falling on the fields and streets. In half an hour or so it will be night. In the fading light the rooks are coming in. Now that night is approaching, they are heading for the familiar grove of beech trees. They come in ones, twos, and whole batches. After a lot of circling and raucous cawing, they finally settle down for the night. Their journeying and labours are over for another day. They can rest now. They are home. We too need a home. To have a home is not just to have a house. It is to have a set of close ties with people who accept us for what we are, and who give us a feeling of belonging. But in spite of all the buildings we put up and roots we put down, here on earth we do not have a lasting home. All we have, as Paul says, is a kind of tent. At death the tent is folded up. Hence, it is not only on earth that we need a home. We also need a home to go to when death brings down the curtain on the day of our life. Without such a home, life would be a journey to nowhere. At the Last Supper, Jesus knew that the night of death was coming on. He had no doubts about where his life was leading. Jesus saw his death as . For Christians this world is like an inn; the world to come is like home. Here one could talk a little about the life of the departed one. For a child, home is not so much a place as a relationship of love and trust. A child can move around a lot and not feel homeless, as long as the parents are there. It is the same for those who have a close relationship with God. Harvest Time(Flor Mc. Carthy)On the day of the harvest there is no room for anything but the truth. On this day the straw is set aside. The chaff is blown away by the wind. The weeds are consigned to the flames. The only thing that matters is the grain. This, like sacks of gold, is taken away and stored carefully in the barn. Death is like harvest time. On the day of death everything suddenly becomes very clear – good and evil are as distinct as wheat and weeds. At death it is not the amount of money or possessions that a person has amassed that matters, these, like the straw and chaff, have to be left behind. What matters is the good a person has done. On the day of death we recall everything good about the departed one, which is not difficult because at this time it stands out. It is gathered together in a sheaf. That good was there all the time, but we may have overlooked it, or it may have been partly obscured by the weeds. Sometimes farmers reap only a fraction of what they have sown. Outside forces (birds, bugs, poor soil, drought, etc. So it is with the harvest of life. People can do their best and have very little to show for their efforts. Hence, we must not judge people by results. It is the striving that matters. It can happen that a person who has accomplished very little is a better person than another who has accomplished a lot. At the end of life, it is not what we have done that matters, but what we have become. Let us consign them to the flames of God’s mercy. We could point to the harvest of goodness which, by the grace of God, the departed one succeeded in reaping. In the final analysis, what is gathered into the heavenly Father’s barn is known only to him. But God is infinitely more understanding, compassionate, and generous than we could ever imagine. Seeds Must Die(Flor Mc. Carthy)How beautiful it is to watch shoots of young wheat swaying in the wind and dancing in the sun. But how strange is the process by which these shoots come into being. First of all, the grains of wheat have to be buried in the cold earth as in a tomb. Then they have to die. If they didn’t die, no new life would come forth. But when they die, from the grave of the old grains shoots of new wheat miraculously spring forth. In time, each of these shoots will produce a whole earful of new grains. It’s an amazing paradox – life coming through death. The way of salvation is similar. It is Christ who tells us this. Just as the grain of wheat has to die if it is to bear fruit, so there is a sense in which we must die if we are to live fully and fruitfully. We are like seeds dropped by the hand of God into the field of life. Under his watchful gaze we break through the surface and open ourselves to the sun and the rain. But having opened ourselves to receive we must also open ourselves to give. For to give is to live. Those who live for themselves, will stagnate. Those who live for others and for God, will grow and bear fruit. But to live for others means to die to self, something that doesn’t come easy to human nature. Jesus not only told us about this but gave us an example. He died to all forms of self- seeking, giving his life in our service. When the actual moment of death arrived, he surrendered himself into God’s hands. And God rescued him from the tomb and gave him new life. Thus, the hour of his humiliation became the hour of his glory.
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