Funeral Mass Readings

[tkdnick]

Anyone have any suggestions or know where I can go to look for funeral Mass readings?

Thanks

[OutinChgoburbs]

Sorry for any loss you might have or will experienced. Try these:

http://www.blessedsacrament.com/usa/corpus/funeral.html

http://www.canticanova.com/planning/...pln_fun1_l.htm

http://www.sacredheartquincy.org/funeralprep/

http://www.diocese-sdiego.org/Handbo...Liturgy81.html

http://www.stdismasparish.net/funeral_liturgy.htm

[plato3]

Also,
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/index.htm

God bless
Deacon Tony

[kleary]

Originally Posted by tkdnick

Anyone have any suggestions or know where I can go to look for funeral Mass readings?

Thanks

A good reading for the first reading: 1 Thess. 4: 13-18

Gospel - John 11: 21-27

These are two of the readings from the 1962 Missal Requiem Mass. The Introit and others can be found there also.

Ken

[Kielbasi]

Originally Posted by tkdnick

Anyone have any suggestions or know where I can go to look for funeral Mass readings?

Thanks

There are, as the other posters have pointed out, missals where the appropriate readings for funeral masses are listed.

But I think that this is a detail which is probably best left to the priest's discretion. Priests are professionals who do this a hundred times a year, I think they generally know what to say, even if they didn't know the decedent.

Planning a funeral is a huge event that has to be planned and done within a short period of time, with all of the other details that have to be attended to, this is one which I'd leave to the priest. I think that most priests know which passages they like to read, and that's what's most likely to result in a smooth running event.

[tkdnick]

Thanks to everybody for the suggestions!