How about you remember the deceased however they would have wanted to be remembered.

If that falls in line with what the diocese guidlines say, good for you. If not, I'd say that my loved one's wishes come before Father Timothy Deeter's.

Humean_Nature: If not, I'd say that my loved one's wishes come before Father Timothy Deeter's.

That's cool. But if you want to honor the deceased's fetish for Rocky Horror participations, don't expect Father Timmy to let you use the church.

Num?

lib?

gen?

+1 smitty

Huh? Anna Nichole Smith died?

Fald?

Funerals?

WTF!

Judge Advocate Gen?

Duke of?

No idea what the article says, and dont really care.

That headline is comedy gold.

+1

The problem is when the priest conducts a "eulogy" that hardly mentions the deceased...and mainly consists of an hour long harangue about the joys of joining the Roman Catholic Church. It's almost as if they realize most of those in attendance would not be there otherwise, and now he has a captive audience.

But they wouldn't do that...would they?

The only reason I'm up right now is because I got a call about 2 hours ago. My Grandad died early this morning.

To think that the church would want to limit what I have to say about my Grandad is appalling. They have to catch me first.

/rip grandad, i love you

Farkulus: But they wouldn't do that...would they?

My mom went to a memorial service for someone who she worked with that was Mormon, and the brother? of the deceased started crying about how all those in attendance who weren't Mormon weren't going to be able to see the woman in the afterlife cause they weren't going to heaven.

/weren't

Marketing collat?

Spring ephem?

it's a streetlight! crossword clue!

F?

Bootysama: My mom went to a memorial service for someone who she worked with that was Mormon, and the brother? of the deceased started crying about how all those in attendance who weren't Mormon weren't going to be able to see the woman in the afterlife cause they weren't going to heaven.


I just don't get religion at all. And the above example, so obvious, just makes me shake my head in disbelief at it all.


/I wouldn't want to join any club that would have me as a member - Groucho Marx

My sympathies HRPuffnstuff.

It took me a minute to get the headline but then again I just woke up. Outstanding!

As for Father Timmy, he needs to STFU. Thank you for listening.

good god I have to stop drinking

Holy mack?

On one hand, the death ritual is very much a cultural and religious event, and if it is being conducted in a certain way (such as Catholic), there should be some standards.

On the other hand, nobody tells me how the fark to celebrate the life of my deceased love one. If Led Zeppelin is more appropriate than a hymn, then it's gonna be played.

nm. google for "fark streetlight" has shown me the error of my ways.

thats what i get for ignoring UFO articles.

/meh.

Way to go catholic church! Alienate more parishoners, thats the smart thing to do.

I wonder how much money the church will lose to private funeral homes with these regulations?

heh...and apparently for not even sending the first message to begin with...



/need some farkin sleep.
//IGNORE ME!!

User42: No idea what the article says, and dont really care.

That headline is comedy gold.


Came here to say the same thing, except I wanted to emphasize how badly TFA sucked.

/+1

Catholic church has been taking the fun out of liberals for years

HRPuffinStuff

sorry man

:-(

headline would have been nier without the underscores.

When my father died, there was one particular request that he had that I remembered last minute. It required putting a dessert fork in my father's hand in the casket. It was his request, and it opened it up to people asking me what the deal was with the fork. At the funeral, I read the explanation (a "glurge" item my dad got in his e-mail one day from someone about how Heaven was his final dessert), and then people got it (the most common responses I got beforehand were that it was a representation of a family holiday called Donut Day, and also that he liked to eat).

But this was the benefit of my father going to a non-denominational church -- his pastor he was good friends with, and he had some good stories to tell about my dad (like the fact that he thought the G. in my dad's name was for "Gotcha!" because my dad liked to argue/debate people). My brother said that he hoped that he would be the father to his kids that my dad was to us. My uncle started his comments with "There are two things that people say you don't discuss: religion and politics." And everyone started laughing because they knew where my uncle was going with it (my dad's two favorite topics to argue about). And we played "Where I Get Where I'm Going" by Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton during the service.

It's what my dad would have wanted, and he got his wish.

In the, oh, 30 plus Catholic funerals I've attended, not one has ever contained a eulogy. I thought they only did that in movies.

HRPuffinStuff:

Sorry to hear about your Grandpa...

HRPuffinStuff
A toast to your grandfather and my sympathies...

give bees a chance and Maui Haui tie FTW

Mark Twain says it best;

Do not criticize the person in whose honor the entertainment is given.

Make no remarks about his equipment. If the handles are plated, it is best to seem to not observe it.

If the odor of the flowers is too oppressive for your comfort, remember that they were not brought there for you, and that the person for whom they were brought suffers no inconvenience from their presence.

Listen, with as intense an expression of attention as you can command, to the official statement of the character and history of the person in whose honor the entertainment is given; and if these statistics should seem to fail to tally with the facts, in places, do not nudge your neighbor, or press your foot upon his toes, or manifest, by any other sign, your awareness that taffy is being distributed.

If the official hopes expressed concerning the person in whose honor the entertainment is given are known by you to be oversized, let it pass -- do not interrupt.

At the moving passages, be moved -- but only according to the degree of your intimacy with the parties giving the entertainment, or with the party in whose honor the entertainment is given. Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. Where the occasion is military, the emotions should be graded according to military rank, the highest officer present taking precedence in emotional violence, and the rest modifying their feelings according to their position in the service.

Do not bring your dog.

Folgers?! Egads man, thats awful coffee. Ugh!

If you want to tell stories of you and the dead guy double-teaming Thia Hookers while summgling heroin, do it at the wake and not at the funeral.

HRPuffinStuff
My condolences. I hope you're doing alright.

blowfish2000--
In the, oh, 30 plus Catholic funerals I've attended, not one has ever contained a eulogy. I thought they only did that in movies.

I agree, a eulogy is usually said at the funeral home not at the actual church.

...covering up pedophile sex with little boys still OK.

/ex-Catholic

FARK_____!!!


/is to a word.

give bees a chance

Duke of?

Almost spit soup all over my monitor. Literally. +1

The Irish get it all out at the wake.

As for eulogies it depends on the diocese.My dad died four years ago and his diocese Rockville Centre on Long Island allowed for a eulogy.My little sister gave a ten minute eulogy for his six kids.