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Post by minx on Sept 14, 2023 8:52:43 GMT -5
And I mean it literally. This woman, who have her life to the church and was even sending small checks from her SS benefits while disabled and sick is being denied burial in their cemetery because she 'wasn't a tithing member' at the time of her death. Beyond appalling. fredericksburg.com/news/state-regional/first-baptist-church-hollins-alice-garrison-roanoke-county-cemetery-choir/article_fb239791-553d-526e-93c0-a2c67baee1b0.html#tracking-source=home-the-latestI'm sure the pastor and church leaders have a different view of this woman then the one her family is presenting. But unless she was helping herself to the collection basket, or abusing the children in her care during services, there's no reason not to allow her burial alongside her past family. They should all hang their heads in shame. And we all KNOW how much they ministered to their fellow sister in Christ, seeing as none of them visited her once she became too disabled to leave her home and travel to the church.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Sept 14, 2023 9:14:44 GMT -5
What a crock of shit. Where is the congregation in all of this? If I were a member of that church this pastor would be out on his ass and I wouldn't give another penny until she was granted the resting place she deserved.
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Post by minx on Sept 14, 2023 11:07:48 GMT -5
Agreed. And it's a true sin how many churches abandon people who are elderly or disabled.
Mr. Minx's grandmother was a member of the congregation of a church for her entire adult life - got married there, had her children christened there and raised them in the church. Her daughter was the church administrator. She got sick and had to go to a nursing home - did the priests visit faithfully. I'm sure you can guess that answer.
And when she died, it was so clear that the priest who did the funeral had no effing idea of who she was. None. This despite her daughter working for him, and running all the administrative business of the parish. He said nothing personal at all, but explained the sacrament of death. Not even a 'she's in heaven with the angels' line. Pisses me off to this day.
I worked at a nursing home for Catholic nuns. They had mass once a week, but did the priest visit those who simply needed a blessing? Well, if you were of sound mind, yes. If you were senile, you were SOL, although I think they probably need a kind hand and a prayer most of all.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Sept 15, 2023 10:59:44 GMT -5
Oh the shit I've seen, too. Wife's cousin died in his early 30s and the Catholic Church his family "belonged to" refused to so much as do the service/mass for him because he wasn't "active". Nevermind that his parents, grandparents, uncles, etc all were and all of these people had raised their kids there with CCD, etc and attended well into their teens and 20s.
Bet that when her parents became too infirm to attend their catlick church (a different one), they kept sending that check every week or month or whatever. Then when he left the chat they sent a "nun" to hang out with her. She had a check for the "nun" upon every visit. I will say that they didn't slight her parents and gave them full mass of christian burial, and that "nun" attended both funerals. They even recruited seminary students to be pall bearers for her funeral because by that time the family had imploded and there were only half a dozen people at the funeral.
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