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Psalm 119:28 “My spirit sags because of grief. Now raise me up according to your promise!” The Good News: This verse is conveying the feeling of being emotionally exhausted and sad.When we ...
When my dad died in 2007, my mom said the prayer "The Memorare," at his bedside. It's a Catholic prayer asking for the Blessed Virgin Mary's help, and it's meant for times of distress, because it ...
A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.
Prayers are held on the seventh day, because Joseph mourned his father Jacob seven days (Genesis 50:10) [41] and in Book of Sirach is written that "seven days the dead are mourned" (Ecclesiasticus 22:13). [42] Prayers are held on the thirtieth day, because Aaron (Numbers 20:30) [43] and Moses (Deuteronomy 34:8) [44] were mourned thirty days.
A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral.Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
A passage in the New Testament which is seen by some to be a prayer for the dead is found in 2 Timothy 1:16–18, which reads as follows: . May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy on that day); and in how many ...