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A priest explained to this writer that “the funeral is not to celebrate the life of the one who died but to worship God ‘for Christ’s victory over death.’ It is to comfort with prayers those who mourn the passing away of a person dear to them and, what most of us hear, to pray for his soul.”
(Cardinal Vidal used to ask his friends in media to pray for him, His worry: “what if you’d be in heaven and I wouldn’t be there?”)
(Cardinal Vidal, by the way, is a cardinal in the Philippines, who died on October 18. The President of the Philippines declared a holiday on the day of his funeral, October 26, in the city and province in which he will be buried, so that more people can attend his funeral. 3 million people live there.)
A priest explained to this writer that “the funeral is not to celebrate the life of the one who died but to worship God ‘for Christ’s victory over death.’ It is to comfort with prayers those who mourn the passing away of a person dear to them and, what most of us hear, to pray for his soul.”
(Cardinal Vidal used to ask his friends in media to pray for him, His worry: “what if you’d be in heaven and I wouldn’t be there?”)
(Cardinal Vidal, by the way, is a cardinal in the Philippines, who died on October 18. The President of the Philippines declared a holiday on the day of his funeral, October 26, in the city and province in which he will be buried, so that more people can attend his funeral. 3 million people live there.)
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