Paul Turner 
Light in the Darkness [EPUB ebook] 
Preparing Better Catholic Funerals

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1 Pastoral Care

  The Person Who Died

  Funeral Homes and Cemeteries

  The Obituary

  Planning the Ceremonies

  What We Are Doing

  Cremation

  The Absence of the Body

  The Three Stages

2 Rituals

  “The Last Rites”

  The Liturgical Environment

  The Wake

  Related Rites and Prayers

  The Funeral Mass

  The Rite of Committal

  Musical Selections

  The Role of Priests

3 Toolbox

  The Readings

  Sample Homilies

  Handouts for Mourners

Paul Turner is pastor of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception  in Kansas City, Missouri and director of the Office of Divine Worship for the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. He holds a doctorate in sacred theology from Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.He is a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy and a member of Societas Liturgica and the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. He serves as a facilitator for the International Commission on English in the Liturgy. His publications include One Love: A Pastoral Guide to the Order of Celebrating Matrimony, Inseparable Love: A Commentary on The Order of Celebrating Matrimony in the Catholic Church, Glory in the Cross: Holy Week in the Third Edition of The Roman Missal, Let Us Pray: A Guide to the Rubrics of Sunday Mass, and Whose Mass Is It? Why People Care So Much about the Catholic Liturgy, all published by Liturgical Press. He is also a contributor to Give Us This Day.