Remembrance – Commemoration Ceremony – Post Funeral Rituals – Mourning Process
Memorial ceremony and commemoration with Abbot Reding (Zen Monk) from the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. It is not all over with the funeral, but a slow process begins in which we celebrate and respect the connection in spirit. The intervals between the commemorative ceremonies are therefore getting longer and longer over the years. In this way we remain connected to the deceased and, relative to the time, we commemorate them with a small ceremony or ritual.
Commemoration Ceremonies
- Funeral
- 30. Day
- 49. Day
- 100. Day
- Annual Commemoration Ceremony
- 3 Years
- 5 Years
- 7 Years
- 10 years
- 15 years
- 25 years
- 50 years
- all other 50 years
Other Ceremonies
- 1. November: All Saints Day
- 2. November: All Souls Day
- Commemoration of the Dead: Blessing of the graves
Prayer and Meditation
What a beautiful afterlife is painted on your dust. You were passed through the fiery core of the earth, through its stone shell. Parting Weave in the Impermanence Mass. Good night! The weights of life and death descend with your wings upon the rose that withers with the homeward maturing light. What a beautiful afterlife is painted on your dust. What royal sign in mystery in the air. Farewell, farewell and nevermore.
The pain and shadow sounds of all languages are deeply familiar to the heart and to the ear. Farewell, good-by, felice notte and whatever else means that it doesn't stay. All calls from the unknown God who constantly drives us. Farewell - you know it, fields and meadows, all swells, the Antilles Sea lives on salt, lives on the dew of a shadow's return. Above everything stands the double wings of a consuming infinity: worlds - works - last things, all are doomed. The little house under the trees by the lake. Smoke rises from the roof. If he is missing, how desolate is the house, trees and the lake. Rest in peace!