I am a veteran and when I registered to be buried at a local national cemetery they said you only get 15 minutes for graveside rites, is that possible for the Priest to do it that quickly? I will have a funeral mass of course at my Church and then to the cemetery for graveside.
I like all three priests, but Father Tom is always spot on and brilliant about our Faith and Practices. Also, a bit of advice after all services are complete, a family member should stay behind to make sure casket or Urns containing ashes are properly buried! This is imperative because I know this from a past experience of burial of a loved one. Love and God Bless from Anita, Pittsburgh PA🙏
My mother was so angry when she discovered my husband and I are choosing cremation. I explained to her why we made that choice, cost, site prep… money basically. We don’t want the viewing, big dog and pony show, we just want have simple burials. We have our urns, we will be placed in the cemetery where my parents are buried. We are retired military and will have markers from the VA. Evidently this made an impression on her bc she chose to be cremated and buried next to our dad. What happens to like Mr. Scott (James Doohan) whose ashes were jettisoned into space? I saw one the other day that makes your body into mulch and give you back to your people in a bag to be spread in gardens?
Thank you so much for this episode, Fathers Doug, Mike, and Tom! I really appreciate all of the content that you create and distribute through St. Dominic Media. Keep up the good work! The reasonings behind the Church's teachings regarding the use of the Rite of Christian Burial and the importance of prayers for the dead make good sense to me, but something I've had difficulty understanding is why we (as Catholic Christians) exhume bodies or rebury them in different locations on occasion. I am an employee here in Kalaupapa (the lands of Father Damein, Mother Marianne, and Brother Joseph Dutton), and some of my non-Catholic coworkers have asked me why the Catholic Church allows for the exhumation of human remains. I have not been able to come up with a very satisfactory answer. (They were asking this in particular reference to the exhumation of Mother Marianne's remains, but the same could also be said of Father Damien's.) How do we reconcile Christian bodies resting at peace with the practice of recovering and reverencing saintly relics and such? (I live in a house that is only a couple hundred yards from Mother Marianne's original gravesite, but apparently her body was exhumed and moved to Syracuse, NY years ago; likewise, Father Damien's body is in Leuven, Belgium, but his right hand was reinterred down the road in Kalawao...) I do wonder how the growing trend of cremation is going to affect the potential exhumation of holy men and women in the future... In another vein, I have heard of the practice of people moving family members from their original gravesites to ones closer to their home or relatives, sometimes 100ish years after their death and such. In those cases, it has nothing to do with reverencing relics and I have no idea how this is allowed. I agree that the different ways that people choose to deal with their loved ones remains after death is often a direct reflection of society's draw toward relativism and away from the Christian Faith, which is sad to see unfolding around us. I recently spent some time with an elderly lady (a baptized, non-practicing Catholic) who told me, as we were out to lunch with a group, that she was wearing a necklace that contained many small bone fragments of her late husband... *facepalm* A fellow parishioner keeps her husband's remains in her home (which, unfortunately, seems like a growing trend), but says that she does not intend to bury them because her children want to wait until she passes so that they can comingle their ashes before placing them at rest together in the same urn? I imagine this is not a "best practice!" What is the Church's stance on donating bodies for medical science research? My beautiful eight-year old niece passed away from an inoperable brain tumor years ago, and my brother and sister-in-law donated that part of her brain/brain stem to a place where studies are being done to help prevent this devastating cancer in children in the future. (My niece was not cremated.) I imagine such a practice is acceptable such as in the case of organ donors for those that are living, but what about entire body donations? What exactly is the tradition of utilizing consecrated ground for burials for Catholics? Didn't it used to be that Catholics had to be buried in Catholic graveyards, or something like that? Interestingly, down here in Kalaupapa, a large majority of the graveyards are divided by either religion or nationality: as you drive down the roads with the graveyards on one side, signs will say Catholic Cemetery, LDS Cemetery, Hawaiian Cemetery, Chinese Cemetery, and on and on, but all flowing from one to the next with no barriers of any kind in a long field. On topside Moloka'i, in the graveyard directly next to the chapel of St. Joseph built by St. Damien, there are people of all faiths buried together. I recently asked the parishioners there if I could be buried in that graveyard (I'm 38, but one never knows!). They told me I could. I asked how much it would cost to purchase a plot. They told me it was free, but that it was "first come, first served," 😀 I don't expect an actual response to my lengthy novel, but thank you for bringing these questions of the Fatih to the surface! Thanks again for the video and discussion, and God bless you all!
I am a veteran and when I registered to be buried at a local national cemetery they said you only get 15 minutes for graveside rites, is that possible for the Priest to do it that quickly? I will have a funeral mass of course at my Church and then to the cemetery for graveside.
Thanks for the question. I'm sure if you work things out with the pastor, He will be able to figure something out.
Can a divorced lapse Catholic,have a requiem mass said for him ,and can he get buried from the church
I suggest speaking with your pastor about this.
6:45 somebody already made a blade with the ashes of their father
The family ran Funeral Homes will still help the more corporate ones with a board and everything will not.
I like all three priests, but Father Tom is always spot on and brilliant about our Faith and Practices.
Also, a bit of advice after all services are complete, a family member should stay behind to make sure casket or Urns containing ashes are properly buried! This is imperative because I know this from a past experience of burial of a loved one.
Love and God Bless from Anita, Pittsburgh PA🙏
My mother was so angry when she discovered my husband and I are choosing cremation. I explained to her why we made that choice, cost, site prep… money basically. We don’t want the viewing, big dog and pony show, we just want have simple burials. We have our urns, we will be placed in the cemetery where my parents are buried. We are retired military and will have markers from the VA. Evidently this made an impression on her bc she chose to be cremated and buried next to our dad.
What happens to like Mr. Scott (James Doohan) whose ashes were jettisoned into space?
I saw one the other day that makes your body into mulch and give you back to your people in a bag to be spread in gardens?
Thank you so much for this episode, Fathers Doug, Mike, and Tom! I really appreciate all of the content that you create and distribute through St. Dominic Media. Keep up the good work!
The reasonings behind the Church's teachings regarding the use of the Rite of Christian Burial and the importance of prayers for the dead make good sense to me, but something I've had difficulty understanding is why we (as Catholic Christians) exhume bodies or rebury them in different locations on occasion. I am an employee here in Kalaupapa (the lands of Father Damein, Mother Marianne, and Brother Joseph Dutton), and some of my non-Catholic coworkers have asked me why the Catholic Church allows for the exhumation of human remains. I have not been able to come up with a very satisfactory answer. (They were asking this in particular reference to the exhumation of Mother Marianne's remains, but the same could also be said of Father Damien's.) How do we reconcile Christian bodies resting at peace with the practice of recovering and reverencing saintly relics and such? (I live in a house that is only a couple hundred yards from Mother Marianne's original gravesite, but apparently her body was exhumed and moved to Syracuse, NY years ago; likewise, Father Damien's body is in Leuven, Belgium, but his right hand was reinterred down the road in Kalawao...) I do wonder how the growing trend of cremation is going to affect the potential exhumation of holy men and women in the future... In another vein, I have heard of the practice of people moving family members from their original gravesites to ones closer to their home or relatives, sometimes 100ish years after their death and such. In those cases, it has nothing to do with reverencing relics and I have no idea how this is allowed.
I agree that the different ways that people choose to deal with their loved ones remains after death is often a direct reflection of society's draw toward relativism and away from the Christian Faith, which is sad to see unfolding around us. I recently spent some time with an elderly lady (a baptized, non-practicing Catholic) who told me, as we were out to lunch with a group, that she was wearing a necklace that contained many small bone fragments of her late husband... *facepalm* A fellow parishioner keeps her husband's remains in her home (which, unfortunately, seems like a growing trend), but says that she does not intend to bury them because her children want to wait until she passes so that they can comingle their ashes before placing them at rest together in the same urn? I imagine this is not a "best practice!"
What is the Church's stance on donating bodies for medical science research? My beautiful eight-year old niece passed away from an inoperable brain tumor years ago, and my brother and sister-in-law donated that part of her brain/brain stem to a place where studies are being done to help prevent this devastating cancer in children in the future. (My niece was not cremated.) I imagine such a practice is acceptable such as in the case of organ donors for those that are living, but what about entire body donations?
What exactly is the tradition of utilizing consecrated ground for burials for Catholics? Didn't it used to be that Catholics had to be buried in Catholic graveyards, or something like that? Interestingly, down here in Kalaupapa, a large majority of the graveyards are divided by either religion or nationality: as you drive down the roads with the graveyards on one side, signs will say Catholic Cemetery, LDS Cemetery, Hawaiian Cemetery, Chinese Cemetery, and on and on, but all flowing from one to the next with no barriers of any kind in a long field. On topside Moloka'i, in the graveyard directly next to the chapel of St. Joseph built by St. Damien, there are people of all faiths buried together. I recently asked the parishioners there if I could be buried in that graveyard (I'm 38, but one never knows!). They told me I could. I asked how much it would cost to purchase a plot. They told me it was free, but that it was "first come, first served," 😀
I don't expect an actual response to my lengthy novel, but thank you for bringing these questions of the Fatih to the surface! Thanks again for the video and discussion, and God bless you all!
My aunt made my mom feel guilty for the cremation of her mom