Guide for Celebrating® Funerals

Guide for Celebrating® Funerals
Author: Joseph DeGrocco
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1618332422
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The process of preparing a Catholic funeral can be a healing and life-giving experience for all who are involved. This resource provides parish staffs with a thorough treatment of the various funeral rites—from the first meeting with families after death through the burial. It offers pastoral guidance for collaborating with families, preparing the liturgical environment and music, selecting prayer texts, scheduling liturgical ministers, and ways for your parish to be a source of comfort, hope, and strength for mourners.

Guide for Celebrating® Funerals

Guide for Celebrating® Funerals
Author: Joseph DeGrocco
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1616712910
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This resource offers pastoral guidance for collaborating with families, preparing the liturgical environment and music, selecting prayer texts, scheduling liturgical ministers, and ways for your parish to be a source of comfort, strength, and hope.

Remembering Well

Remembering Well
Author: Sarah York
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2002-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0787958654
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Remembering Well offers family members, clergy, funeral professionals, and hospice workers ways to plan services and rituals that honor the spirit of the deceased and are faithful to that person's values and beliefs, while also respecting the needs and wishes of those who will attAnd the services. It is an essential resource for anyone who yearns to put death in a spiritual context but is unsure how to do so-including both those who have broken with tradition and those who wish to give new meaning to the time-honored rituals of their faith. The real-life stories, examples, and practical guidelines in this book address a wide array of important issues, including the difficult decisions that survivors must make quickly when a death occurs-and the sensitive topic of family alienation, where possibilities for healing, forgiveness, and hope are explored. The invaluable insights offered here will help those who grieve to prepare mind and spirit for life's final rites of passage.

Final Celebrations

Final Celebrations
Author: Kathleen Sublette
Publisher: Pathfinder Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1992
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780934793438
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This book will help families make comfortable, cost-effective decisions about the final arrangements for themselves and their loved ones.

Celebrating a Life, Mourning a Death

Celebrating a Life, Mourning a Death
Author: Trevor a Donnelly
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2019-06-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781073323159
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This is a book for secular (or non-religious) funeral celebrations. In a secular funeral, every word of the service can be personal (this is possible because the focus of the secular funeral is not on God or a hope for life-after-death, but entirely on the deceased). However, there are still words that can be used time and again: there are only so many ways to say 'welcome' or to introduce a reading. With this in mind I decided to create a 'book of words' for my own use. My funerals have had so much positive feedback that I decided to write this short book to share my words and provide some insights from over 20 years of experience with funerals...I don't have enough faith to work as a Priest or Minister (although once upon a time I did), and I don't have enough atheism to buy into the British Humanist Society. I have great respect for both traditions (and this book may be useful to religious and non-religious celebrants) but I fall in between the two. I suspect that is where most people are, most of the time. This book could also be of use to families putting together a service without an outside celebrant (there is no law to say you need one!). This book will give you enough information to run a service yourself without a celebrant or clergy. I believe that anyone with some confidence in public speaking could lead a funeral or memorial service...

A Good Ending

A Good Ending
Author: David Sparks
Publisher: The United Church of Canada
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2014-05-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1551342170
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Wow, that was a good funeral. Comments like this are not an accident but the result of care and planning, contends David Sparks in A Good Ending. This practical book gives advice and ideas for every step along the way, from supporting the dying person, to planning a funeral, life celebration, or memorial, and to being with those left to mourn. Whether you are a new or seasoned worship leader looking for fresh insights or ideas or someone looking for guidance to support a dying loved one, you'll find this an indispensable resource. Practical helps include prayers, sample meditations and service outlines, and detailed check lists also available as downloadable file. -- David Sparks

Facing Death Together

Facing Death Together
Author: Margaret Smith
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781568541761
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A guide for celebrating the Order of Christian Funerals in a context of pastoral care.

Common Worship: Pastoral Services

Common Worship: Pastoral Services
Author: Church of England
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0715122339
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Offers liturgical material for the journey of each individual through life. For each key element of this journey (birth, marriage, healing, death), it provides both material for key ‘public’ events and resources for ‘private’ pastoral care.

When the Sun Goes Down

When the Sun Goes Down
Author: Betty Breuhaus
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2007-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0595430309
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A surprisingly delightful book on planning that final celebration of your life "The problem addressed in Betty Breuhaus's practical and amusing book is: If you don't plan your own funeral, someone else will...It's hard to write breezily about such a dark topic, but When the Sun Goes Down succeeds, marvelously." Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN Are you ready to define your own dignity and creatively plan the final celebration of your life? When the Sun Goes Down: A Serendipitous Guide to Planning Your Own Funeral Author Betty Breuhaus asks you to open your heart and mind to one of life's inescapable sure things as she offers an in-depth guide to planning a personalized funeral. In an inviting and engaging manner, she combines humor, anecdotes, and quotes throughout as she teaches you to take charge and devise a personal plan that will not only honor your memory, but also inspire all who attend your celebration to live a fuller and more meaningful life. "...a heartfelt and informative guide that covers the details of end-of life planning and is interspersed with wisdom, humor and zest." Paula K. Rauch M.D. Director, MGH Cancer Center Parenting Program Massachusetts General Hospital "No one is going to the grave with their music inside of them if Betty Breuhaus has her way...it is a must-read for everyone who is going to die." Bill Bates, President, Life Appreciation Seminars Visit: www.whenthesun.com "Be it a birthday, an anniversary, a graduation, or a full moon, gather those you love and celebrate with them." ...the author and friends at a Full Moon Party

The Funeral Celebrant's Handbook

The Funeral Celebrant's Handbook
Author: Barry H Young
Publisher: Woodslane Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 098729752X
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Today more than ever, personal funeral services that capture the essence of the departed person - their character, spirit and legacy - are being planned and conducted by civil celebrants in collaboration with family and friends of the deceased. With this move away from traditional funeral services, comes an increased responsibility for the funeral celebrant to honour the departed in an appropriate way, and make sure each service runs as smoothly as possible. This handbook is the ideal companion for qualified celebrants or church leaders, celebrants-in-training, or those who are thinking about entering this vocation. It covers every aspect of a service, beginning at the time of initial contact and the first meeting with the bereaved, right through to the service itself. In this book you will also find a varied collection of readings, poems and sample eulogies for each type of funeral service, as well as advice about conducting memorial services and funeral services with a difference.