The Death of a Christian: The Order of Christian Funerals (Revised Edition)

Description

For first time since the dawn of the middle ages a Catholic Funeral may be both authentically christian and humanly consoling, because “it is the paschal mystery of christ that the church confidently celebrates in the funerals of her children.” The death of a christian is not an isolated event ending a person’s life; it is rather a moment of life ” for those who through Baptism have been incorporated into the body of christ dead and risen will pass with him through death to life.”