Help for those who have been bereaved to express their thoughts and feelings. Will make people more confident in planning a funeral service and dealing with clergy. Many non-churchgoers attend funerals. The book will contain pieces that offer an insight into the difference Christian faith and hope can make. Follows the style of the highly successful Readings for Weddings which has sold over 7,000 copies. Readings for Funerals is a perceptive collection of Bible quotations, poems, hymns and prose, offering consolation and comfort to those bereaved. Featuring the writing of, amongst others, W. H. Auden, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot and Joyce Grenfell, it is suitable for use at secular funerals, celebrations of a life and church services.

Readings for Funerals and The Splash of Words

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This is of course a great resource book for any minister or chaplain, or indeed for any family member or friend of a recently deceased person ... however it's more than that too, it's actually a really good book for anyone facing times of hardship, serious illness and yes, preparing for death or bereavement. Inside the book are a good collection of bible readings that though suitable for funerals of course, also talk to many other situations too. The Poems and Reflections sections are a wide ranging selection of classic and modern, and yes all deal with the theme of dying, death, bereavement, remembrance and such as one would expect ... but you know all these words were written by the living and speak not only to those bereaved, but to those dying too ... and even to those not in either of those places but aware that they one day will be. Finally the book rounds out with a selection of Hymns that would be fitting to use in a funeral, or are ones most often asked for, and as it gives the words makes for a handy tool and it is worth noting that contained here are quite a few favourite hymns like 'All things bright & beautiful', 'be though my vision' and a good few others. An excellent resource book indeed.

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