Look around yourself. What do you see?
What surrounds us in this cemetary are those who once walked about this earth like you or me. Some who are buried here may be a member of your family or even your friends.
I believe that it is important that we have Mass here this afternoon for this hallowed place reminds us that we will one day join with them and that there is a need for us to pray and offer sacrifice for those who have gone before us into life eternal.
Some might claim that a place like this is filled with sorrow, but as Christians that is not the case. As I often remind at a Funeral Mass: “Life has changed, but not ended.” Truly, there is nothing for us to be sorrowful for because we profess in the Good News of Our Lord’s Resurrection.
With that we here on earth must remover our own mortality and order our life on this earth not towards sin for sin only brings about true death, but towards the Lord for from here death is not found, but instead Everlasting Life in Heaven.
Let us now continue to pray and offer sacrifice for those who have gone before us. Through our prayers and sacrifices they are cleaned and brought towards the Light of Heaven.
Eternal rest grant onto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, Rest In Peace. Amen.
