Here was the first talk I offered to a group of parishioners. During this Lent, I will be speaking about some different thoughts and conversations. I hope you enjoy these notes below, and the recorded talk here.
Notes:
Notes:
Talk and Conversation
“The End of the Journey from our Earthen Life into
Transfiguration”
2-20-18
1.) Prayer
2.) Our ordinary sacraments and God’s
extraordinary ways
·
Baptism
o Anyone
could Baptize someone in an emergency situation
o Water
and the words “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit”
o Nurses,
Jewish, Muslim
o If
they do what the dying person believes
·
Confession
o Priest
o “General
Absolution”
·
Extreme situations: danger of death threatens,
not enough priests
·
Example: Airplane crashing
·
Eucharist
o Bishop
or Priest (with faculties) for
o Traditionally
only Bishop, Priest or Deacon could offer communion
·
Today Eucharistic of Ministry—laity
·
Confirmation
o Bishop
or Priest
·
Marriage
o Bishop,
Priest or Deacon
·
Ordination
o Bishop
·
Anointing of the Sick
o Bishop
or Priest
3.) Path towards the end of our earthly time
·
“Best Situation”
o Anointing
of the Sick
o Confession
o Eucharist
o We
used to call this sacrament “Extreme Unction” or “Last Rites”
·
Many people call the priest when they are almost
dying
·
But today we say, “Anointing of the Sick”
o Interesting
spectrum we learned in seminary
o One
extreme is when we do not need Anointing of the Sick if we are healthy…or if we
have a could
o On
the other extreme, we cannot offer this sacrament if someone has already die
o Some
where in the middle
• Elderly
that are sick
• Big
surgeries
·
“Dying”
o Anointing
of the Sick
o Apostolic
Pardon
o Eucharist:
Viaticum
·
Prayers
·
Tell your children, your family and your
Pastor
4.) Funerals
·
Challenges in our culture
o Wrong
order
·
I have had several parishioners that did not
receive a Funeral Mass
·
Why?
Their family had a different decision
o Cremation
Society
·
Money
·
Quick fix
o People
scared of death and when someone else dies, they go make it as fast as possible
o Funeral
Homes
o Other
buildings
o Or
nothing
·
Best situation:
o Please,
have a will.
·
Have your information for several people in your
family, with your doctor, with your “Guardianship” or other names for health,
finances, etc.
·
Prepare your funeral when you can make your
decisions
·
You, your kids, your will or your parish can
record this information
o Preparation
with the parish: Pastor, Deacon, Suitable laity
o Tradition
·
Vigil the evening before
o Visitors
o Prayer
o Rosary
o (I
just heard about Fr. William Baer’s with Adoration all night…I would like
that!)
·
Funeral with a Mass
·
Coffin, not an urn
o Holdingford
o Where
will people know where your corpse is?
o The
Church has said that a cremation is ?
·
No eulogy is in our rite
·
Burial right after the Mass
o Where
will your body be buried?
• Put
that in your will!
o (I
know that I want to be buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Duluth, in the “Circle
of Priests”)
·
Lunch after
·
Last important decisions
o Please
call the Pastor first—put that in your will, and your family
·
Talk to the Pastor about the date (several times
I have been the last person to know what the date “is”—as I might be out of town
·
In IFalls, do the best to talk with Leif
o Order
for a funeral
·
Funeral service: Bishop, Pastor, Assistant
Priest, Deacon (as they can lead a funeral service), and, if needed in an
emergency situation, a laity member
o Music
·
Worship hymns in the Church—that’s where Jesus
lives, not in a concert auditorium
·
Even there, don’t have a concert, but worshiping
hymns
5.) Questions and discussion
·
Next week?
6.) Closing Prayer
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