This is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis

Helpful Finds

After some searching, I found this information on the Orthodox Church funeral practices and A Requiem Service for Non-Orthodox (pdf file). This requiem, along with the traditional praying of the Psalter, will be very helpful. I won't be able to pray it over the body, but can do so at home. Delane is not Orthodox, but the Church, in her wisdom, allows us to pray privately for the repose of our non-Orthodox loved ones. Heck, I'm not even Orthodox. My life is confusing.

I also happened by chance to come across Boris Bobrinskoy's The Compassion of the Father (SVS Press, 2003) at the Loyola library prior to giving my final Tuesday night. Two chapters that stood out to me: "The Lamb of God Takes Upon Himself Human Suffering" and "The Prayer of the Heart and Suffering."

What a weird, weird thing is this waiting for death.