Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
With widespread religious disaffiliation not only among Catholics, but Christians in general, it’s safe to say that today most people’s idea of what a funeral should be has been formed more by what they’ve seen in movies than from a religious context. But funerals are religious services, and because they often draw together people who do not otherwise participate in the life of the Church, they can be important moments of evangelization.
What do you do when, after a long climb up a mountain path, you’ve reached the peak – and realize that it was only the first mountain that must be climbed? Do you dig your flag in the ground and declare victory? Do you turn back defeated? Or do you press on with renewed hope?