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Catholic funeral service at St Mary Immaculate Church, Charing Cross. A Catholic funeral is carried out in accordance with the prescribed rites of the Catholic Church.Such funerals are referred to in Catholic canon law as "ecclesiastical funerals" and are dealt with in canons 1176–1185 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, [1] and in canons 874–879 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. [2]
The first stage involves the parish priest and other clergy going to the house of the deceased. One cleric carries the cross and another carries a vessel of holy water. Before the coffin is removed from the house it is sprinkled with the holy water. The priest, with his assistants, says the psalm De profundis with the antiphon Si iniquitates ...
A small part of a dead person's cremated ashes may be stored in a place that was dear to them rather than in a church or cemetery, the Vatican said on Tuesday, softening its previous stance on the ...
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven; Bed burial is a type of burial in which the deceased person is buried in the ground, lying upon a bed. Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat. It is regularly performed by navies, and is ...
Holy Cross Cemetery & Mausoleum is located at 7301 West Nash Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.It is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.The cemetery was established in 1909, the cemetery comprises 196-acre (79 ha), with about 135,000 burials in graves and about 15,000 in crypts and niches. [1]
Further, covering oneself in dust and ashes was connected with fasting: "Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes" (Daniel 9:3).
Between the Catholic Altar of the Nailing to the Cross and the Orthodox altar is the Catholic Altar of the Stabat Mater, [80] which has a statue of Mary with an 18th-century bust; this middle altar marks the 13th Station of the Cross. [79] On the ground floor, just underneath the Golgotha chapel, is the Chapel of Adam. [79]
It was the first Catholic Church-owned funeral home in the U.S. [2] The cemetery planted 3 acres of vineyards to provide grapes for sacramental wine used by the Oakland Diocese. [2] The wine is bottled at Rockwall Winery in Alameda, which also sources grapes from Holy Cross Cemetery in Antioch, and St. Joseph's Cemetery in San Pablo. The ...