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Post by homeschooldad on Feb 5, 2024 20:39:54 GMT
My mother was laid to rest this morning beside my father. The diocesan priest who offers our local TLM, and who administered Extreme Unction to my mother in December, conferred the rites at the crypt, some prayers in Latin, some in English, and then the casket was placed inside the crypt. It was only the priest and me, as well as three undertakers from the funeral home. I then went to Mass downtown, Novus Ordo, and as it turned out, it was a very simple Mass with no music, coincidentally appropriate to the circumstances (the priest offering Mass knew nothing of my mother's passing, I don't usually go there). Then I had lunch, fish and fries from Captain D's, ran some errands, and came home.
And so it went. It's all good. Please continue to pray for the repose of my mother's soul.
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Post by tth1 on Feb 12, 2024 16:21:06 GMT
I am sorry to learn of your mother's death. We can now hope her soul rests in a far better place.
Prayers offered for you and your son for the strength to take you through this difficult period and all the first anniversaries to come afterwards. Many tend to forget these. I recall when my father died my mother said everyone flocks round but as soon as the funeral is over you see no one any more. So prayers for now and for the future, too.
I'm sorry this is late but I've been taking a break fro the Internet.
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Post by homeschooldad on Feb 14, 2024 0:32:33 GMT
I have been spending the evening cleaning house.
It just occurred to me today, that this feels like the first "normal" day I've had in four years.
Caregiving takes more out of you, than you realize it does, but it's no picnic for the person being cared for either.
Friday will be my parents' 68th wedding anniversary, and I am going to take flowers to their crypt. They will be inexpensive silk flowers, nice but inexpensive, probably from Dollar Tree. We were never ones to spend money needlessly. Neither my parents nor I were raised that way.
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Post by tth1 on Feb 18, 2024 4:09:52 GMT
I think I quite like what Jews do when they visit a grave. They place a stone on it. It lasts much longer than flowers.
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Post by theguvnor on Feb 18, 2024 9:32:51 GMT
Yes, the nearest Jewish Cemetery of large size here in London has to have a note though on the gates telling people not to leave flowers. It has the graves of several-well known people in there. Including Amy Winehouse's. Amy's grave has people leaving teddies and flowers and so forth and just after she died it became a huge mess due to that. The cemetery my mother is buried in allow flowers to stay on graves for a few days and then dispose of them. In theory anyway, lately the amount of groundkeeping or tidying seems to be limited in there.
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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 12, 2024 17:54:24 GMT
The hospice chaplain, the one to whom I gave a copy of the 1950s edition of Life In Christ, has called me a couple of times to follow up and see how my son and I are doing. I asked her both times how she liked the book, and she told he she has indeed been reading it, learning more about the Catholic Faith, and that it is one of her, as she put it, "go-to books".
Never waste an opportunity to bring people to Catholic truth. You never know what could come of it.
My son and I are doing fine. I visited my parents' resting place just a few days ago.
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