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Offline Tiffany

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« on: June 13, 2016, 03:50:42 PM »
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    • What is Catholic behavior for a viewing?
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    Offline jen51

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    « Reply #1 on: June 14, 2016, 07:20:40 AM »
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    • What is a viewing? First thought that popped into my mind was a movie or the body of the deceased at a funeral.
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    Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.
    ~James 1:27

    Offline Tiffany

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    « Reply #2 on: June 14, 2016, 07:50:40 AM »
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    • It was for a body. We ended up going through the line twice, when my son saw the other young people he knew outside with the daughter, we went through again with them. I didn't know if there was a Catholic behavior there. We did say a prayer in the car.
     Ahhh seeing the son's face when someone dear to him approached him as I was driving in...  :pray:
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    « Reply #3 on: June 14, 2016, 08:51:04 AM »
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    • Quote from: Tiffany
    It was for a body. We ended up going through the line twice, when my son saw the other young people he knew outside with the daughter, we went through again with them. I didn't know if there was a Catholic behavior there. We did say a prayer in the car.
     Ahhh seeing the son's face when someone dear to him approached him as I was driving in...  :pray:


    Please clarify your concerns.
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    Offline Tiffany

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    « Reply #4 on: June 14, 2016, 12:16:34 PM »
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    • It's over now. I was asking to find out if there is Catholic behavior around the deceased. Do we say a prayer when we walk in, at the body, make the sign of the cross?
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    Offline Marlelar

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    « Reply #5 on: June 14, 2016, 03:35:43 PM »
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    • I assume it was not for a Catholic.  I've only been to two protestant functions and both times I just sat in the chair and prayed for the conversion of those around me, too late to pray for the conversion of the deceased.  I went to both for the benefit of the living and to show my sympathy for their loss.

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    « Reply #6 on: June 15, 2016, 02:03:14 AM »
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    • It os ok to kneel down and say a brief rpayer for the repose of the deceased.
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