Prayer In Time of Sorrow



O God our Father, we know that You are afflicted in all our afflictions;
and in our sorrow, we come to You today
that you may give us the comfort which You alone can give.

Make us feel sure that in perfect wisdom, perfect love, and perfect power
You are working ever for the best.
Make us rest assured that a Father's hand will never cause His child a needless tear.
Make us so sure of Your love
that we will be able to accept even that which we cannot understand.

Help us today to be thinking not of the darkness of death,
but the splendor of the life everlasting,
forever in Your presence and forever with You.
Help us still to face life with grace and gallantry;
and help us to find courage to go on in the memory that
the best tribute we can pay to our loved one is not the tribute of tears,
but the constant memory that another has been added
to the unseen cloud of witnesses who compass us about.

Comfort and uphold us, strengthen and support us,
until we also come to the green pastures which are beside the still waters,
and until we meet again those whom we have loved and lost awhile.

                                                                               - William Barclay
 

Funeral Preparation

PLANNING THE FUNERAL LITURGY

Suggested Readings

Old Testament

Daniel Chapter 12 v 1-3
Isaiah Chapter 25 v 6-9
Job Chapter 19 vs 1 23-27a
Lamentations Chap 3 vs 17-26
Maccabees Chap 12 vs 43-46
Wisdom Chapter 3 v1-9
Wisdom Chapter 4 vs 7-15
Wisdom-3-1-6-9

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New Testament

Alternate Readings

Old Testament