Readings for Remembrance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Readings for Remembrance write by Eleanor C. Munro. This book was released on 2000. Readings for Remembrance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A UNIQUE SELECTION OF WRITINGS, FROM ANTIQUITY TO POSTMODERNISM, FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE HUMOROUS, THAT CELEBRATES HUMANITY'S SURVIVING "RITES OF PASSAGE". A rich and thoughtful selection of writings both religious and secular, Readings for Remembrance reaffirms a belief in the renewable spirit of men and women to sustain human community through empathy and affection. Assembling many of her literary favorites, Eleanor Munro has gathered words from antiquity, from scripture and hymns; from Milton and Montaigne; from Stevens and Lawrence; from the modern and postmodern poets whom she adores. Organizing her selections around such themes as raw grief, the mystery of death, heroes, and healing, Munro offers thoughts on how we react to death, why we have memorial services and make readings a part of the ritual, how we remember and pay tribute to loved ones who have died. "My aim in gathering these readings has been to counter the isolation that visits the bereaved in our society", writes Munro in her wonderful introduction, "to remind us all, myself included, that loss is the fundamental human experience, universally shared and collectively survived generation after generation". The result is an anthology unique in its scope, sensibility, and purpose.
Funeral and Memorial Service Readings, Poems and Tributes
Funeral and Memorial Service Readings, Poems and Tributes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Funeral and Memorial Service Readings, Poems and Tributes write by Rachel R. Baum. This book was released on 2007-11-28. Funeral and Memorial Service Readings, Poems and Tributes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Words can fail even the most articulate when called upon to speak at a loved one's funeral or memorial occasion. The bereaved desires to say something meaningful, yet services are often held so quickly that there is little time to find something appropriate at the library or bookstore. This book is a collection of poetry and prose appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service. To assist the reader in finding a suitable passage, the book is divided into eleven chapters. There are tributes for mothers; fathers; children; spouses and soulmates; friends; siblings and other close relatives; soldiers and victims of war or violence; pets; and general readings appropriate for men, women, or any loved one. These selections will also prove helpful for clergy, counselors, and hospice, hospital, and funeral professionals. Appendices list resources and support organizations, and each selection is indexed by author, title, and first line. A special additional index references pieces by famous uses, such as in a film, novel, or celebrity's funeral, so readers can locate a passage they remember from its context.
Common Worship: Pastoral Services
Common Worship: Pastoral Services - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Common Worship: Pastoral Services write by Church of England. This book was released on 2014-08-19. Common Worship: Pastoral Services available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers liturgical material for the journey of each individual through life. For each key element of this journey (birth, marriage, healing, death), it provides both material for key ‘public’ events and resources for ‘private’ pastoral care.
Funeral Readings and Poems
Funeral Readings and Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Funeral Readings and Poems write by Becky Brown. This book was released on 2022-03-17. Funeral Readings and Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To find solace from grief, we have always turned to the written word. With poetry and prose spanning continents, religions and cultures, this moving anthology examines loss, celebrates lives well lived and offers words of consolation. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning clothbound pocket-sized classics with gilt edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited by Becky Brown. Helpfully divided into different sections, Funeral Readings and Poems features many famous poems such as ‘Funeral Blues’ by W. H. Auden and ‘How do I Love Thee?’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, alongside comforting prose from the likes of Louisa May Alcott and Kenneth Graham.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eats, Shoots & Leaves write by Lynne Truss. This book was released on 2004-04-12. Eats, Shoots & Leaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
