09-24-2010, 06:24 PM
I hope today went as well as it could have for you and your family Lavazza
A dear aunt of mine passed on the 14th and her funeral was the 20th. She was a devout catholic all her life and confided her experiences to her priest shortly before her death, which he expressed at the mass. She told him she had moved from understanding the Christ of Calvary to, in recent months, experiencing a Cosmic Christ. The priest didn't really understand what she meant but I did
I listened to the service with a smile on my face, so happy that her faith had blossomed in that way and that she had been so spiritually content at the end of her life. She had led a very church orientated life up until that point, she held a divinity degree and took the eucharist to house bound members of the church, but her spiritual life expanded tremendously, expanded beyond the walls of the church, towards the end of her life. There was no sadness at her funeral.
Whatever the beliefs of your various family members I hope there comes a point in their lives when they can see and experience faith beyond the boundaries that they have placed on their spiritual experience. Perhaps the reinforcing, for themselves, of those boundaries, through discussions of the type you have experienced in the past, is simply their way of responding to the mystery of death when they encounter it directly?
A dear aunt of mine passed on the 14th and her funeral was the 20th. She was a devout catholic all her life and confided her experiences to her priest shortly before her death, which he expressed at the mass. She told him she had moved from understanding the Christ of Calvary to, in recent months, experiencing a Cosmic Christ. The priest didn't really understand what she meant but I did
I listened to the service with a smile on my face, so happy that her faith had blossomed in that way and that she had been so spiritually content at the end of her life. She had led a very church orientated life up until that point, she held a divinity degree and took the eucharist to house bound members of the church, but her spiritual life expanded tremendously, expanded beyond the walls of the church, towards the end of her life. There was no sadness at her funeral.
Whatever the beliefs of your various family members I hope there comes a point in their lives when they can see and experience faith beyond the boundaries that they have placed on their spiritual experience. Perhaps the reinforcing, for themselves, of those boundaries, through discussions of the type you have experienced in the past, is simply their way of responding to the mystery of death when they encounter it directly?