From then on, "Lord" becomes the more usual name by which to indicate the divinity of Israel's God. 121. 13 It is for this faith that all generations have called Mary blessed. 298 Council of Trent (1546): DS 1511; cf. Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000-1001; John XXII, Ne super his (1334): DS 990. Scripture. 206, 338 Nothing exists that does not owe its existence to God the Creator. 896 The Good Shepherd ought to be the model and "form" of the bishop's pastoral office. Its accomplishment was the reason for his being sent. 234 The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. Eunomium III, I: PG 29, 656B. Jn 3:18; Acts 2:21; 5:41; 3 Jn 7; Rom 10:6-13. Communion in the faith. His ordinary and immediate authority over the whole Church does not annul, but on the contrary confirms and defends that of the bishops. Some of the most famous funerals of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as that of Pope John Paul II, have been Catholic services.. This sovereignty is not to be an arbitrary and destructive domination. 235 Cf. 144 Lk 1:43; Jn 2:1; 19:25; cf. 53. 447, 910 "The laity can also feel called, or be in fact called, to cooperate with their pastors in the service of the ecclesial community, for the sake of its growth and life. 879 Sacramental ministry in the Church, then, is a service exercised in the name of Christ. 210, 343 Man is the summit of the Creator's work, as the inspired account expresses by clearly distinguishing the creation of man from that of the other creatures. Man has this capacity because he is created "in the image of God". This he does by revealing the mystery, his plan of loving goodness, formed from all eternity in Christ, for the benefit of all men. subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him. 420 The victory that Christ won over sin has given us greater blessings than those which sin had taken from us: "where sin increased, grace abounded all the more" (Rom 5:20). 328 The existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls "angels" is a truth of faith. 624 "By the grace of God" Jesus tasted death "for every one". 554 From the day Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Master "began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things. 429 On the eve of his Passion, while still free, Jesus transformed this Last Supper with the apostles into the memorial of his voluntary offering to the Father for the salvation of men: "This is my body which is given for you." 531 Cf. Sacred Scripture calls this human response to God, the author of revelation, "the obedience of faith". 78, 112 1. A prayer of St. Teresa of Jesus wonderfully expresses this trust: 228 "Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD" (Deut 6:4; Mk 12:29). In parallel fashion, she had to recall on each occasion that Christ's human nature belongs, as his own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it. 868 The Church is catholic: she proclaims the fullness of the faith. Mt 6:26-34), and St. Peter the apostle repeats: "Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you" (I Pt 5:7; cf. 683 "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the Holy Spirit." DS 3025. A reading from the book of Wisdom. 229; 774; 776; 780; 823 1. By giving Israel this principle they had led many Jews of Jesus' time to an extreme religious zeal. To confess or invoke Jesus as Lord is to believe in his divinity. 251 To enter it, one must first accept Jesus' word: 544 The kingdom belongs to the poor and lowly, which means those who have accepted it with humble hearts. 366 The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not "produced" by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection. Funeral Readings | New Testament. 582, 1012 The Christian vision of death receives privileged expression in the liturgy of the Church: 584. 66 The English phrases "of one being" and "one in being" translate the Greek word homoousios, which was rendered in Latin by consubstantialis. It is composed of four parts. . Assistance hours:Monday Friday10 am to 6 pm, Jl. 280 He gives the Twelve a share in his authority and 'sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal." John completes the cycle of prophets begun by Elijah. Acts 1:22; Lk 1:41; 16:16; Jn 3:29. This is sometimes referred to as a wake or the reception of the body. Mary's visitation to Elizabeth thus became a visit from God to his people. 626 The Last Judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life: 1040 The Last Judgment will come when Christ returns in glory. 411 They extend it especially to the poor, 412 to those persecuted for the faith, as well as to missionaries who are working throughout the world. Const. And the humble are always the first to accept him: shepherds, magi, Simeon and Anna, the bride and groom at Cana, and the first disciples. 812 Only faith can recognize that the Church possesses these properties from her divine source. 165 Lk 12:32; cf. I. ." Read more about the Rite of Committal at a cemetery. 3. 472, 929 By a "life perfectly and entirely consecrated to [such] sanctification," the members of these institutes share in the Church's task of evangelization, "in the world and from within the world," where their presence acts as "leaven in the world." English Translation of the Cathechism of the Catholic Church for the United States of America 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc. III. The Reception of the Body or Prayer Vigil, usually the evening before the funeral. It remains common to all the great Churches of both East and West to this day. 175. . 377. I Cor 12:4 - 6; Eph 4:4-6. 352 Cf. 29. 137 St. Hippolytus, Trad. 390 The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man. . We have seen earlier how Jesus fulfills the prophecies concerning himself. 196 "Prophet of the Most High", John surpasses all the prophets, of whom he is the last. 123 Christians venerate the Old Testament as true Word of God. 115 According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral and anagogical senses. 336 From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession. Only the one who "came from the Father" can return to the Father: Christ Jesus. The Church encourages Catholics to have a funeral Mass, also known as a Requiem Mass because it includes Holy Communion. Rev 19:16. 43 Dei Filius 3: DS 3012; cf. 726 At the end of this mission of the Spirit, Mary became the Woman, the new Eve ("mother of the living"), the mother of the "whole Christ." Though often unconscious collaborators with God's will, they can also enter deliberately into the divine plan by their actions, their prayers and their sufferings. 243 The woman God "fashions" from the man's rib and brings to him elicits on the man's part a cry of wonder, an exclamation of love and communion: "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh." 604 St. Cyprian, Ep. 207. Mary "kept all these things in her heart" during the years Jesus remained hidden in the silence of an ordinary life. 620 Our salvation flows from God's initiative of love for us, because "he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins" (I Jn 4:10). Werea team of creatives who are excited about unique ideas and help digital and others companies tocreate amazing identity. 184. 534 Our resurrection, like his own, will be the work of the Most Holy Trinity: 990 The term "flesh" refers to man in his state of weakness and mortality. For each one of the works of the "six days" it is said: "And God saw that it was good." The state of the dead Christ is the mystery of the tomb and the descent into hell. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself" (2 Cor 5:19). 237 "Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her." There, the priest reads a verse of scripture and says special prayers. 160. 577 What is essentially new about Christian death is this: through Baptism, the Christian has already "died with Christ" sacramentally, in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christ's grace, physical death completes this "dying with Christ" and so completes our incorporation into him in his redeeming act: 1011 In death, God calls man to himself. 26 We begin our profession of faith by saying: "I believe" or "We believe". He cannot prevent the building up of God's reign. 464, 625 Christ's stay in the tomb constitutes the real link between his passible state before Easter and his glorious and risen state today. Jn 1:1). Locating View Article. 441 First, it is a gift from God the Father himself, for the Father handed his Son over to sinners in order to reconcile us with himself. Acts 2:42 (Greek); Pius XII, Apost. 453 He calls his disciples to "take up [their] cross and follow [him]", 454 for "Christ also suffered for [us], leaving [us] an example so that [we] should follow in his steps." I: PG 46, 617B; cf. . He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens." So, for this reason, when the Church reads the Old Testament, she searches there for what the Spirit, "who has spoken through the prophets," wants to tell us about Christ. In doing this, she did not submit the faith to human wisdom, but gave a new and unprecedented meaning to these terms, which from then on would be used to signify an ineffable mystery, "infinitely beyond all that we can humanly understand". He has spoken through the Prophets. "Let it be done to me according to your word. 259 We must therefore approach the question of the origin of evil by fixing the eyes of our faith on him who alone is its conqueror. . 139 Ekklesia is used frequently in the Greek Old Testament for the assembly of the Chosen People before God, above all for their assembly on Mount Sinai where Israel received the Law and was established by God as his holy people. In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity: 98, 471 Apollinarius of Laodicaea asserted that in Christ the divine Word had replaced the soul or spirit. 161 Vatican Council I, Dei Filius I: DS 3003; cf. 473 "Their witness of a Christian life" aims "to order temporal things according to God and inform the world with the power of the gospel." Psalm Responses. The profession of faith takes them up when it confesses that God the Father almighty is "Creator of heaven and earth" (Apostles' Creed), "of all that is, seen and unseen" (Nicene Creed). The meaning of this event is accessible only to faith, which understands in it the "connection of these mysteries with one another" 152 in the totality of Christ's mysteries, from his Incarnation to his Passover. 943 By virtue of their kingly mission, lay people have the power to uproot the rule of sin within themselves and in the world, by their self-denial and holiness of life (cf. 317 St. Maximus the Confessor, Opuscula theo. 422 'But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.' 192. And I make me very sure that whatsoever that be, seem it never so bad in sight, it shall indeed be the best." 950 Communion of the sacraments. 174 But with infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world "in a state of journeying" towards its ultimate perfection. 346 So it is that "the blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians." During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against the heresies that falsified it. This section of our guide to Catholic funerals and cremations describes in greater detail what to expect and what happens at each stage. 565 From the beginning of his public life, at his baptism, Jesus is the "Servant", wholly consecrated to the redemptive work that he will accomplish by the "baptism" of his Passion. "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the Holy Spirit'" (I Cor 12:3). It involves a specific divine pedagogy: God communicates himself to man gradually. I Cor 2:8. Filled with the Holy Spirit she makes the Word visible in the humility of his flesh. It is a gift she has received from her Lord, a gift she offers as a stable way of life to the faithful called by God to profess the counsels. 132 The angel Gabriel at the moment of the annunciation salutes her as "full of grace". 443 By his obedience unto death, Jesus accomplished the substitution of the suffering Servant, who "makes himself an offering for sin," when "he bore the sin of many", and who "shall make many to be accounted righteous", for "he shall bear their iniquities". 409 This dramatic situation of "the whole world [which] is in the power of the evil one" 302 makes man's life a battle: 410 After his fall, man was not abandoned by God. 118 Pius XII, Enc. Zeph 2:3; Ps 22:27; 34:3; Isa 49:13; 61:1; etc. 508 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians: 967 By her complete adherence to the Father's will, to his Son's redemptive work, and to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary is the Church's model of faith and charity. I will strengthen you and help you, and uphold you with my right hand of justice. DV 11). 65 Cf. The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit, III. 495 This suggests that he realized from the empty tomb's condition that the absence of Jesus' body could not have been of human doing and that Jesus had not simply returned to earthly life as had been the case with Lazarus. 617 Cf. 247. 2, 85-89 PL 15,1666-1668. so that the world may know that you have sent me." 103, 4, 1: PL 37, 1378; cf. Through the Holy Spirit, the Virgin conceives and gives birth to the Son of God. 385 God is infinitely good and all his works are good. 408 God "shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." Catholic funeral services, when performed in a church, are often done in the form of a Requiem Mass. Rom 6:4; 2 Cor 13:4; Phil 3:10; Eph 1:19-22; Heb 7:16. 14 Catechesis aims at putting "people . 138 The Church accepts and venerates as inspired the 46 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New. I Cor 1:18. 641, 1049 "Far from diminishing our concern to develop this earth, the expectancy of a new earth should spur us on, for it is here that the body of a new human family grows, foreshadowing in some way the age which is to come. 618, 1037 God predestines no one to go to hell; 620 for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. . In its fullest form there are three main parts to a Catholic funeral. 543 As "high priest of the good things to come" he is the centre and the principal actor of the liturgy that honours the Father in heaven. This is especially true for Catholic funeral services, though it is a popular choice amongst other sects of Christianity as well. The creator of heaven and earth is also the one who faithfully maintains his covenant with Abraham and his posterity. "Thus he made atonement for the dead" from 2 Maccabees 12:43-46. 775 "The Church, in Christ, is like a sacrament - a sign and instrument, that is, of communion with God and of unity among all men." There are plenty of opportunities for hymns and church music at a Catholic funeral. 644 Even when faced with the reality of the risen Jesus the disciples are still doubtful, so impossible did the thing seem: they thought they were seeing a ghost. The whole People of God participates in these three offices of Christ and bears the responsibilities for mission and service that flow from them. 134 The Holy Spirit, the artisan of God's works, is the master of prayer. His love for his people is stronger than a mother's for her children. Heb 9:27; Mt 25:13, 26, 30, 31 46. 9. tr. Nicene Creed: DS 150; Hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus; Byzantine Troparion of Pentecost Vespers, "O heavenly King, Consoler". 215 St. Leo the Great, Sermo 3 in epiphania Domini 1-3, 5: PL 54, 242; LH, Epiphany, OR; Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 26, Prayer after the third reading. GS 44 2; DV 23; 24; UR 4. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." No one can bestow grace on himself; it must be given and offered. Mt 22:41-46; cf. She is indestructible (cf. 7 Now God's Spirit, who reveals God, makes known to us Christ, his Word, his living Utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of himself. . 362 Jn 4:21; cf. haeres. This duty is the more pressing when it is only through them that men can hear the Gospel and know Christ. Ex 29:7; Lev 8:12; I Sam 9:16; 10:1; 16:1, 12-13; I Kings 1:39; 19:16. 35 DV 7 2; St. Irenaeus, Adv. 113 The Virgin Mary is the supreme model of this faith, for she believed that "nothing will be impossible with God", and was able to magnify the Lord: "For he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name." God calls man and woman, made in the image of the Creator "who loves everything that exists", 249 to share in his providence toward other creatures; hence their responsibility for the world God has entrusted to them. The sword of sorrow predicted for Mary announces Christ's perfect and unique oblation on the cross that will impart the salvation God had "prepared in the presence of all peoples". 119 Cf. . The whole Creed speaks of God, and when it also speaks of man and of the world it does so in relation to God. They can therefore go astray. 500, 642 Everything that happened during those Paschal days involves each of the apostles - and Peter in particular - in the building of the new era begun on Easter morning. . 235 This paragraph expounds briefly (I) how the mystery of the Blessed Trinity was revealed, (II) how the Church has articulated the doctrine of the faith regarding this mystery, and (III) how, by the divine missions of the Son and the Holy Spirit, God the Father fulfils the "plan of his loving goodness" of creation, redemption and sanctification. Mt 12:31. It could also take place. 41 Cf. St. Augustine, De libero arbitrio I, 1, 2: PL 32, 1221- 1223; St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 79, 1. 22 By giving his life to free us from sin, Jesus reveals that he himself bears the divine name: "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will realize that "I AM"." If you are having music, more than one reading or someone sharing memories of the dead person, you may consider booking a double time slot at the cemetery or crematorium. Peter had been called to strengthen the faith of his brothers, 499 and so sees the Risen One before them; it is on the basis of his testimony that the community exclaims: "The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" "Holding a rightful place in the communion of the Church there are also particular Churches that retain their own traditions." The Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and following it the Church's Tradition, understood the divine name in this sense: God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection, without origin and without end. 284 Christ, the "living Stone", 285 thus assures his Church, built on Peter, of victory over the powers of death. 14. He will gather and reconcile the scattered and divided peoples; he will transform the first creation, and God will dwell there with men in peace. 21. . He is "the perfect man", 191 who invites us to become his disciples and follow him. She invokes their assistance (in the funeral liturgy's In Paradisum deducant te angeli. The world began when God's word drew it out of nothingness; all existent beings, all of nature, and all human history are rooted in this primordial event, the very genesis by which the world was constituted and time begun. 107. 50 Jn 6:27; cf. 4, 18, 4-5: PG 7/1, 1028-1029. This faith glories in its weaknesses in order to draw to itself Christ's power. This is what man's first sin consisted of. 596 Cf. 4, 2: PG 94, 1104C. 205 God calls Moses from the midst of a bush that burns without being consumed: "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Gen 2:17; 3:3; 3:19; Wis 1:13; Rom 5:12; 6:23; DS 1511. 320 Cf. Vatican Council I, can. 567 The kingdom of heaven was inaugurated on earth by Christ. haeres. Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another: "In the relational names of the persons the Father is related to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to both. Catholic Funeral Readings from the Old Testament. Ezek 11:19; 36:25-28; 37:1-14; Jer 31:31-34; and cf. To say the Credo with faith is to enter into communion with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and also with the whole Church which transmits the faith to us and in whose midst we believe: 2 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. In adoring the Holy Trinity, life-giving, consubstantial, and indivisible, the Church's faith also professes the distinction of persons. . 62. 256 These four characteristics, inseparably linked with each other, 257 indicate essential features of the Church and her mission. 330. 114 Roman Missal, Preface of Christmas I. . 486 The Father's only Son, conceived as man in the womb of the Virgin Mary, is "Christ", that is to say, anointed by the Holy Spirit, from the beginning of his human existence, though the manifestation of this fact takes place only progressively: to the shepherds, to the magi, to John the Baptist, to the disciples. 340 God wills the interdependence of creatures. 46 DV 10 1; cf. 189 He remains ever "in the presence of God on our behalf, bringing before him all that he lived and suffered for us." To human beings God grants the ability to co- operate freely with his plans. 559 How will Jerusalem welcome her Messiah? 375 Hence the Church teaches that "the bishops have by divine institution taken the place of the apostles as pastors of the Church, in such wise that whoever listens to them is listening to Christ and whoever despises them despises Christ and him who sent Christ." 9 Cf. 244 Pius XII, encyclical, Mystici Corporis: DS 3808. 50 Well before this, Jesus referred to himself as "the Son" who knows the Father, as distinct from the "servants" God had earlier sent to his people; he is superior even to the angels. 106. In John, the precursor, the Holy Spirit completes the work of "[making] ready a people prepared for the Lord." 352 The Church venerates the angels who help her on her earthly pilgrimage and protect every human being. 304 This passage in Genesis is called the Protoevangelium ("first gospel"): the first announcement of the Messiah and Redeemer, of a battle between the serpent and the Woman, and of the final victory of a descendant of hers. 240 Man and woman are both with one and the same dignity "in the image of God". Planning A Wedding. 17, 60 The people descended from Abraham would be the trustee of the promise made to the patriarchs, the chosen people, called to prepare for that day when God would gather all his children into the unity of the Church. 199 "I believe in God": this first affirmation of the Apostles' Creed is also the most fundamental. 275. 564 In that "departure" which is death the soul is separated from the body. It is the profession of these counsels, within a permanent state of life recognized by the Church, that characterizes the life consecrated to God. Mt 13:55; et al. 551 St. Augustine, En. 8, 2: PL 2, 852). DS 286; 455-463; 800; 1333; 3002. ." Ecclesiam), and not to believe in the Church, so as not to confuse God with his works and to attribute clearly to God's goodness all the gifts he has bestowed on his Church. He has, however, willed to make men holy and save them, not as individuals without any bond or link between them, but rather to make them into a people who might acknowledge him and serve him in holiness. If a body is to be cremated, the coffin is taken to the crematorium where there is a short service in the chapel. - "Amen Come Lord Jesus!" . 533 Cf. He knew and loved us all when he offered his life. Yet no one can escape the experience of suffering or the evils in nature which seem to be linked to the limitations proper to creatures: and above all to the question of moral evil. As long as he remained in the divine intimacy, man would not have to suffer or die. 25 Cf. In the light of Tradition, these traditions can be retained, modified or even abandoned under the guidance of the Church's Magisterium. 265 By the grace of Baptism "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit", we are called to share in the life of the Blessed Trinity, here on earth in the obscurity of faith, and after death in eternal light (cf. 566. 61. 86 "Father", "Son", "Holy Spirit" are not simply names designating modalities of the divine being, for they are really distinct from one another: "He is not the Father who is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father or the Son." 245 2 Cor 6:16; cf. I am the vine, you are the branches." All Jesus did, said and suffered had for its aim restoring fallen man to his original vocation: 519 All Christ's riches "are for every individual and are everybody's property." God loves his people more than a bridegroom his beloved; his love will be victorious over even the worst infidelities and will extend to his most precious gift: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son." 44 Cf. 101 Mary is acclaimed and represented in the liturgy as the "Seat of Wisdom.". Through a revelation from the Father, Peter had confessed: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." 528 The Epiphany is the manifestation of Jesus as Messiah of Israel, Son of God and Saviour of the world. Taiz Prayer. . Others have said that the world is a necessary emanation arising from God and returning to him. 104 Cf. 562 According to the Lord, the present time is the time of the Spirit and of witness, but also a time still marked by "distress" and the trial of evil which does not spare the Church 563 and ushers in the struggles of the last days. These "ways" of approaching God from creation have a twofold point of departure: the physical world, and the human person. 374, 862 "Just as the office which the Lord confided to Peter alone, as first of the apostles, destined to be transmitted to his successors, is a permanent one, so also endures the office, which the apostles received, of shepherding the Church, a charge destined to be exercised without interruption by the sacred order of bishops." 85 Such is the joyous conviction of the Church from her beginning whenever she sings "the mystery of our religion": "He was manifested in the flesh." 503. 254 To them - the "little ones" the Father is pleased to reveal what remains hidden from the wise and the learned. This divine name is mysterious just as God is mystery. 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