Irish Bishop bans Eulogies

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Phemie said:
You can’t lob ‘rubrics’ at someone’s head without knowing exactly what the rubrics say in the Irish “Order of Christian Funerals.” The rubric quoted above applies to the priest regarding his homily. The same rubric is in the US “Order of Christian Funerals” but there is still another rubric that allows for a loved one to speak of the deceased (read, do a eulogy) between the Prayer after Communion and the Final Commendation. We don’t know if the same thing exists in the Irish Rite.

The fact that it’s allowed in the US doesn’t mean it has to be done. The bishop can certainly say “no,” as he did in Ireland, but at this moment there is no world-wide ban on eulogies in the Catholic funeral liturgy.
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why are you talking about the US rubics?
 
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saveusfromhell:
**this is the part of your post I was referring to. you trivialise the mass in your post by calling it a lesser subject. nothing to a catholic is lesser than the mass. it is the same as being at calvary.
**that is why I posted the saints quotes about the value of the mass.

I think you need to look up the definition of heretic, it has nothing or at least not the way you mean it, about burying someone you love.
i’m referring to the general way heretics and the secular world seems to believe they have the right to define anything to do with a funeral mass.
it always saddens me to see people arrive at a funeral mass then proceed to go to communion so that the chief mourners will see them. even though they don’t believe in Jesus present in the Eucharist. how totally disrespectful can you get, to those that do. while complaining that they should have rights to give a eulogy
the rubics of the mass in Ireland say no eulogies get over it.
in the case of your parents I know nothing of them and was not posting about their specific funerals. may the lord have mercy on their souls.
Jesus again to Catholics is always physically present in church so a eulogy always pushes him to one side.

I was referring to the subject of eulogies as the lesser subject. As a former Catholic/Christian, I know well that the mass is viewed a sacred . Once the priest says, or said, “The Mass is ended, Go in Peace,” that is how I always viewed it. Over.
I don’t know about most Catholics when their faith is failing, but I never presented myself for communion when I was not qualified.

You are right though…this applies to one diocese in Ireland…it really isn’t a big deal.
 
oldcelt said:
I was referring to the subject of eulogies as the lesser subject. As a former Catholic/Christian, I know well that the mass is viewed a sacred . Once the priest says, or said, “The Mass is ended, Go in Peace,” that is how I always viewed it. Over.
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That doesn’t happen in a Funeral Mass.
 
Phemie said:
That doesn’t happen in a Funeral Mass.
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Really…guess that shows how long it’s been since I’ve been to one. My memory was that they ended the same way except for the procession with the casket. Just getting old.
 
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