A Celebration of Life service was held on May 31, 2009 at St Paul’s Episcopal Church
The service was officiated by Rev Joy A. Rose, TSSF and Rev Sanda S.W. Taylor
Jeremy Moon opened the service by singing “Bring Him Home”
- Isaiah 61:1-3 – Susan Hyde
- Psalm 91:1-7,11-16 – Tom Moon
- Revelation 21:2-7 – Brendan Moon
The Homily was delivered by Pastor Sandy
During Communion we were led in song and music:
- Jesus, Remember Me
- On Eagles’ Wings
THE CHRISTIAN’S COMFORT
The Christian’s comfort in sorrow is to be found,
not in the memory, but in the presence of the one we love.
The Christian is in God; the departed one is in
God, too, only nearer to Him than we on earth.
One is on this side of the veil, the other on that.
By coming nearer to God the living and the dead come
nearer to each other in Him, non in any physical manner by
sight or sound or touch – that would be only to restore
what is most imperfect and what death was meant to end-
but in the deep, hidden bonds that bind the sould of them that
love God together.
Thus prayers and good works and Holy Communion and the
personal love of Jesus become the comfort of one that
sorrows, not because they make one forget or benumb one’s
feelings, but because through them the soul is being drawn
nearer to God. Thus there comes to be a deep meaning in
the benediction ‘Blessed are they that mourn’