The Order for Funerals - Personal Ordinariate of the Chair ...

The Order for Funerals for use by the Ordinariates erected under the auspices of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum c tibus 2 The Order for Funerals for use by the Ordinariates erected under the auspices of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum c tibus Introduction 1. In the funeral rites the Church celebrates the Paschal mystery of Christ. Those who in Baptism have become one with the dead and risen Christ, at the end of their sacramental life,1 will pass with him from death to life, to be purified in soul and welcomed into the fellowship of the saints in heaven. They look forward in blessed hope to his second coming and the bodily resurrection of the dead. The Church therefore celebrates the Eucharistic sacrifice of Christ s Passover for the dead, and offers prayers and petitions for them.

7. The celebration of a Funeral Mass is permitted on any day except Solemnities that are Holydays of Obligation, Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday), the Paschal Triduum, and the Sundays of Advent, Lent, and Easter. 8. In celebrations for the dead, whether the funeral service itself or during vigils, prayers at

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