why exactly are we catholic?
Jul. 18th, 2007 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lokizmomthat was the gist of the question that came out of my sisters mouth. i couldn't believe it.
ok...back story:
last night around 11:30pm my great aunt louise died. we all knew her as auntie lou. my dad was close to her because she needed someone to drive her around here and there, and he was there to help her out. she had gone into the hospital on saturday, and at that time there wasn't much time left, so my mom and dad went to see her on sunday. mom thought she would last until her birthday which was at the end of this week. apparently that wasn't the case.
so...the question was raised: what sort of services will be held. being that we (in our local family) are catholic, one would assume that there would be a rosary at night and then the funeral mass on the next day ending at the cemetery and the lowering of the casket into the ground next to her husband. well...it appears that our immediate family (mom, dad, me, jo and teresa by default) are the only "practicing" catholics in the bartolotti/campana clan. there won't be a rosary. there will be a small service on saturday afternoon after which auntie lou's urn will be placed in a wall at the mosaleum (sp?). she will be cremated. she will not be placed next to her husband in the ground. i haven't been told why, but there's something about money and spending it all over the place. **shrugs** whatever. the campana's have always had money, and the bartolottis have been without for the most part. my dad's brother was well off enough that he owned a house that had many trinkets made out of marble, but we always wanted for something. at any rate...the question came up about religion. out of all of the bartolotti/campana side and the kempers/o'brien side...we are the only practicing catholics left. mom explained it by saying the campana boys were masons. they didn't practice catholicism. to which i responded...it's a pagan religion.
so...bottom line is...there will be no church mass. there will be no rosary. she will be cremated and put in an urn in a wall away from her husband. unless of course they exhume her husband and cremate him and put him in the wall next to her. **sigh** welcome to my family.
on another note...we found the giant dead cow! it was in the back room and has been refolded and put with the rest of the camping gear. so the dead cow will rise again this ren faire season!
ok...back story:
last night around 11:30pm my great aunt louise died. we all knew her as auntie lou. my dad was close to her because she needed someone to drive her around here and there, and he was there to help her out. she had gone into the hospital on saturday, and at that time there wasn't much time left, so my mom and dad went to see her on sunday. mom thought she would last until her birthday which was at the end of this week. apparently that wasn't the case.
so...the question was raised: what sort of services will be held. being that we (in our local family) are catholic, one would assume that there would be a rosary at night and then the funeral mass on the next day ending at the cemetery and the lowering of the casket into the ground next to her husband. well...it appears that our immediate family (mom, dad, me, jo and teresa by default) are the only "practicing" catholics in the bartolotti/campana clan. there won't be a rosary. there will be a small service on saturday afternoon after which auntie lou's urn will be placed in a wall at the mosaleum (sp?). she will be cremated. she will not be placed next to her husband in the ground. i haven't been told why, but there's something about money and spending it all over the place. **shrugs** whatever. the campana's have always had money, and the bartolottis have been without for the most part. my dad's brother was well off enough that he owned a house that had many trinkets made out of marble, but we always wanted for something. at any rate...the question came up about religion. out of all of the bartolotti/campana side and the kempers/o'brien side...we are the only practicing catholics left. mom explained it by saying the campana boys were masons. they didn't practice catholicism. to which i responded...it's a pagan religion.
so...bottom line is...there will be no church mass. there will be no rosary. she will be cremated and put in an urn in a wall away from her husband. unless of course they exhume her husband and cremate him and put him in the wall next to her. **sigh** welcome to my family.
on another note...we found the giant dead cow! it was in the back room and has been refolded and put with the rest of the camping gear. so the dead cow will rise again this ren faire season!
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Date: 2007-07-19 03:27 am (UTC)my best guess would be she had to sell her cemetary plot, or... she never purchased the plot next to him in the first place due to cost.
i've known a few Catholics who have been cremated, though always after the rosary and mass.
oddly the masons in my family tended to be "holiday catholics".
interesting though :)
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Date: 2007-07-19 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-19 04:14 am (UTC)as for the respect...really she wasn't catholic...it's just the way my mother would have liked it since we were the ones who were closest to her in her later years. **shrugs** it's up to the kids to say what happens now unless it's in her will.
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Date: 2007-07-19 04:46 pm (UTC)*hug*