DEATH:
PREPARATION FOR; FUNERALS

We share with other believers the hope that for many of us the return of Christ may circumvent death and project us into the Immaculate Presence without the necessity of dying. But if not, then let there be no gloomy faces among the few that gather to pay their last regards. We lived with the Resurrection in our heart and died in the Everlasting Arms. Hosanna! There’s no room there for lamentation.

“I have observed,” said the old historian, “that these Christians die well.” A Christian can die well because he is the only one who dares to die at all. The lost man cannot afford to die, and that he must die is his infinite woe. A Christian dares to die because his Savior has died and risen. Let us renounce paganism at our funerals and die as we lived, like Christians.

Acts 7:60; Philippians 1:21–24; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18

The Price of Neglect, 7.