Showing posts with label funerals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funerals. Show all posts
Friday, December 11, 2015

All we go down ...

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I was at a funeral yesterday, not as a mourner but as a provider of music, one of a quartet singing the Kontakion for the Departed at th...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Weeping and alleluias

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Today I attended the funeral of someone I've known since I was twelve - when I started secondary school, even though we were at differen...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

De mortuis

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What does someone of mature years who tries to live under/up to a belief-system that encourages compassion say about the passing of Margaret...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Mortal thoughts

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I was at the funeral today of someone we've known all the time we've lived here, a stalwart of the kirk. The church was packed. And ...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Undemocratic silence?

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Thought for today (actually it was Mr B's thought, but I've pinched it): why is it that in the Church of Scotland, that apparently m...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Rites

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How important it is to get it right for a funeral! And how difficult at this time of year - or is it? Especially if the person who has died ...
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Friday, July 20, 2007

Faithless funeral

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Another first today. My first secular funeral. I couldn’t help noting that some of those present were people I’ve seen at other funerals, wh...
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