Life Without End
Please help yourself to a major paper called Life Without End: Addressing Death Anxiety through the Virtue of Hope and the Ministry of Catholic Cemeteries.
The content is posted as well in PowerPoint format and a 90-minute workshop is available for adult groups at parishes. To book a workshop, please call 604-531-2141 or email advisor@rccav.org.
Abstract
This thesis addresses the theological problems that are part of people’s anxiety and reluctance to engage in the mysteries of death and everlasting life. Modern Western culture represses the experience of death as part of human experience.
The Catholic virtues of faith and hope are examined as antidotes to the problems. These virtues in conjunction with emphasis on eternal life, Jesus Christ’s resurrection, and preparation are reviewed to help Catholics better understand death as a mystery to be lived in Christian hope. The Catholic cemetery ministry is explained as an important ministry integral to the Church’s mission not only offering respectful preservation of human remains but providing education and comfort for the distress over the death of loved ones and inevitable approach of each person’s own death.
It is claimed that those who address their own mortality and who live in Christian hope face life issues with a greater sense of meaning and less anxiety.
The content is posted as well in PowerPoint format and a 90-minute workshop is available for adult groups at parishes. To book a workshop, please call 604-531-2141 or email advisor@rccav.org.
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