not to complain too much, but today has been a perfect example of what I was talking about on Monday. We had church this morning, a quick meeting and pastoral conversations with a couple of folks. Then it was the annual chili dinner, working on a funeral service for tomorrow, disassembling Sissy's wardrobe doors because they keep falling off, stopping by the funeral home for the visitation and taking Sissy around for trick-or-treating.
(The little boy doesn't get to go this round. He's sick and threw not one but two temper tantrums today.)
So yeah, it's a long day. In honor of Norb, whom we will bury tomorrow, and all the dead, a Catholic prayer:
Into your hands, O One
we humble entrust our brothers and sisters who have died before us.
In this life you embraced them with your tender love;
deliver them now from every evil
and bid them enter eternal rest.
The old order has passed away:
welcome them then into paradise,
where there will be no sorrow, no weeping nor pain,
but the fullness of peace and joy
with your Son and the Holy Spirit
with you for ever and ever.
Amen.
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Blessed are those who have died;
let them rest from their labors
for their good deeds go with them.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O God.
And let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace.
Amen.
May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen.
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May the love of God and the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ bless and console us and gently wipe every tear from our eyes: in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.