Overview

In this book, the Christian community is called to a new understanding of its role when one of its own dies. It explains why and how members of a parish team should be involved before, during and after each of the key liturgical moments in the Funeral Rites: the Vigil Service, the Funeral Mass and the rite of Committal. It also shows how the ministry team provides personal contact, warmth and support to people at a time when it is both important and necessary. Clergy, staffs, teams and any parish leadership wanting to reach out to others through enhanced celebration of the Funeral Rites should find the book useful. It can also be used as a textbook in formal diocesan and parish training programmes whose goal is to train lay leadership or in other academic programmes promoting a greater depth of understanding of the Funeral Rites.

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9780814624609

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Mary Alice Piil, CSJ, Joseph DeGrocco, and Rose Mary Cover work in the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York. Together they have established the Ministry of Consolation in several parishes in that diocese, and have given workshops to assist others in starting the ministry.

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