Couple Funeral

Ed & Louise Funeral

Festal Letters, 13–30 Festal Letter Twenty-Five: A.D. 437

He has us compare what is distinctive of the spiritual to a wedding on the corporal level. For it is written, “He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.”

Festal Letters, 13–30 Festal Letter Twenty-Five: A.D. 437

Since, therefore, God the Father gathers us together for the spiritual banquet, and sets before us a most bounteous dinner of the divine teachings—for we have heard him say, “My oxen and my fatlings are killed”—come, let us take up the robe befitting those at the feast, put on the crown of virtue in its many forms, woven, as it were, of the flowers of spring, and, with him as our chorus leader in whose honor we keep festival, let us sing, “Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us shout aloud to God our Savior!”7

Was going to but decided to do Transfiguration readings instead.

Feast of Transfiguration

Peter, James, and John have experienced Jesus and His Heavenly glory but still not fully understand what has take place and what rising from the dead meant.

Gather to pray for and bury Ed & Louise - we might come with the same questions. What do we gather to hope for in Christ?

Four last things

Death - judgment - heaven - hell.

Death - know two things - we will die - but we don’t know when.

All have only two guaranteed moments left.

Judged - on what?

Not money in the bank - nice car was - big house was. We are not even judged on whether we were nice people.

Judged on our love - love for God and for one another. You gathered here are witnesses to their love.

Image of heaven is marriage - marriage supper of the Lamb - which we pray right before the distribution of Communion.

Holy Marriage and family life is a precursor to heavenly glory just as the Transfiguration was precursor to heavenly glory.

SINNERS - need redeemed.

Purgatory - why we gather to pray for them and all who have died. and for ourselves. Faithful until the end of our lives.

Gather to pray for them because if they need to be purified we can intercede for them. If they are they can intercede for us - because purgatory is a substation or checkpoint on someone’s way to heaven.

found faithful - HEAVEN

- share Christ’s glory - in our glorified body.

Share heaven with saints - Moses and Elijah. Peter, James, John. Be there with family and friends who were faithful to God.

FUNERAL - time for us to examine ourselves.

Holy Marriage and family life is a precursor to heavenly glory just as the Transfiguration was precursor to heavenly glory.

We believe in heaven, hell, and purgatory. Being a nice person does not get you into heaven.

Sinners who need redeemed.

How well have we loved - God and one another?

Raised in both body and soul.

40 days until the Triumph of the Cross - Sept 14 - a few days after Ed’s birthday.

CONCLUSION

June 27 - Me and their wedding.

Faithful to God and doing His works.

In their family -

In their work - Ed - professor - Louise - home - house rental.

Share the date of June 27.