There was quite a good crowd at Peter's Memorial Service yesterday: many from Probus and Rotary and various of their local friends plus quite a number of Marie's family from New Zealand. It was held in the Westbury Catholic Church with very generous refreshments in the Church Hall afterwards.
I really have trouble with Catholic funerals. The last Church funeral I went to was another one of our members, that time in the Deloraine Catholic Church. I left with a sense of disquiet that he wasn't properly sent off and I felt the same today.
To me, the deceased was not the centre of attention, as he should be. The service took over an hour; Peter was mentioned at the beginning as the reason we were all there but then he was hardly referred to by the priest as he went through his procedure and the only other time Peter was was talked about was in the 5 minutes homily by his wife and a similar 5 minute talk from Rebecca, his daughter.
And the church was so cold! Happily, the refreshments included soup and it was very welcome.
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