What are Protestant Funerals Like?

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Hn, I wouldn’t say help a person reach heaven. It implies they can go to heaven because of our prayers after they have already died. It’s more to help them go quicker to Heaven.
Of course you can also pray for a good death, God isn’t bound by time so even if they are already dead it should be fine.
 
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Hn, I wouldn’t say help a person reach heaven. It implies they can go to heaven because of our prayers after they have already died. It’s more to help them go quicker to Heaven.
Of course you can also pray for a good death, God isn’t bound by time so even if they are already dead it should be fine.
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That now seems nit picky. I can’t make heads or tails out of your last sentence. 😯
 
Wannano said:
Of course you can also pray for a good death, God isn’t bound by time so even if they are already dead it should be fine.

That now seems nit picky. I can’t make heads or tails out of your last sentence. 😯
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Kei means that you can pray after a person has died - in some cases long after a person has died - that they have a good death, which would basically mean that they have a peaceful journey to heaven.

God is not bound by time, which means if I pray today for the good death of my father who died 30 years ago or my grandfather who died 50+ years ago, or some ancestor I found on Ancestry who died 100 years before I was born, etc. God will back-date my prayer and apply it at the needed time for the person.
 
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Wannano:
Of course you can also pray for a good death, God isn’t bound by time so even if they are already dead it should be fine.

That now seems nit picky. I can’t make heads or tails out of your last sentence. 😯
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Kei means that you can pray after a person has died - in some cases long after a person has died - that they have a good death, which would basically mean that they have a peaceful journey to heaven.

God is not bound by time, which means if I pray today for the good death of my father who died 30 years ago or my grandfather who died 50+ years ago, or some ancestor I found on Ancestry who died 100 years before I was born, etc. God will back-date my prayer and apply it at the needed time for the person.
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Ok, Tis foreign to me. What would be the origin of this teaching, I’m curious.
 
Wannano said:
Ok, Tis foreign to me. What would be the origin of this teaching, I’m curious.
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St. Padre Pio did it. I don’t know if he was the first one to come up with the idea, but it makes sense to me. God is certainly not time-limited.
One day Padre Pio told his doctor: “I’m praying for the good death of my great great grandfather.” “But he died more than one hundred years ago!” “Remember that for God there is no past and no future, and everything is present. So God made use at that time of the prayers I’m saying now.”
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We don’t have a lot of free land left, Kei. Many church graveyards have been full and closed for years, so generally a burial would take place in a municipal cemetery. Plus, the cost is prohibitive for many folk - where we live, the cost of buying a plot and the burial fee for one person is well over £2,000. It costs much less to have a cremation and scatter the ashes.
 
Scattering the ashes isn’t permitted for Catholics, though. Our daughter’s ashes were interred in a columbarium under the church, and I’d imagine that could be a popular option. .
 
Yes, I know Catholics are required to inter the complete ashes and not divide or scatter them. However, some Catholics here do scatter ashes. I had this conversation with a cradle Catholic friend of mine not long ago, she had no idea that scattering wasn’t permitted in our faith.
 
That’s true. The ashes must be interred. They may not be scattered, and I don’t think it’s permitted for the next of kin to be keeping the ashes of a deceased Catholic in an urn on their bookshelf either.

It’s still about half or less as expensive to cremate as opposed to bury a person.
 
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Wannano:
Ok, Tis foreign to me. What would be the origin of this teaching, I’m curious.
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St. Padre Pio did it. I don’t know if he was the first one to come up with the idea, but it makes sense to me. God is certainly not time-limited.
One day Padre Pio told his doctor: “I’m praying for the good death of my great great grandfather.” “But he died more than one hundred years ago!” “Remember that for God there is no past and no future, and everything is present. So God made use at that time of the prayers I’m saying now.”
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Thank you for your patience with me. I have no knowledge of Padre Pio. “With God there is no past and no future, and everything is present.” Maybe this is another thread topic but I will ask what the origin of this is as well. I understand Him being the Alpha and Omega but that there is no past or future with God needs explaining to me. Thanks.
 
I bought (for a relatively small amount of money) a three-person cremains plot at a local Catholic church - they were able to get permission to open a very small area for burial of ashes. There’s probably only about 50 spaces there and I think they’re all sold now.

However, lately, I’ve been thinking I want to purchase a grave.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
That’s true. The ashes must be interred. They may not be scattered, and I don’t think it’s permitted for the next of kin to be keeping the ashes of a deceased Catholic in an urn on their bookshelf either.

It’s still about half or less as expensive to cremate as opposed to bury a person.
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That is totally determined by the cost of a grave plot if everything else is compared apples to apples.
 
True, but it’s unlikely that wherever you are interring a small amount of ashes is going to cost more than the relatively large plot of vaulted land or other interment space needed to put a bigger intact body.
 
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True, but it’s unlikely that wherever you are interring a small amount of ashes is going to cost more than the relatively large plot of vaulted land or other interment space needed to put a bigger intact body.
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That is true but you have the added cost of cremation and an urn.
 
Wannano said:
Thank you for your patience with me. I have no knowledge of Padre Pio. “With God there is no past and no future, and everything is present.” Maybe this is another thread topic but I will ask what the origin of this is as well. I understand Him being the Alpha and Omega but that there is no past or future with God needs explaining to me. Thanks.
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it goes back at least to Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, Part 1, Q14, A 13

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1014.htm#article13

It’s pretty widely taught all over the place in Catholic theology since then.
 
Stories about the person, a song or two, now-a-days there will be a PowerPoint presentation, in many there will be an “altar call”.
 
Have been to quite a few. Never to a Catholic one so I have no idea what the "different " part should be.

Will be happy to clarify with more specifics 🙂
 
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Catholic funeral is a regular Mass, except the priest processes in after the draping of the pall and then pallbearers (or cart wheely thing) brings in the coffin. At the end of the Mass there is a blessing of the body and the Rite actually concludes with the interment.
 
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