Funeral Arrangements with a Zen Master Reding – Neither death nor life separates us from love!

Your funeral arrangements with a Zen Master Reding from the Honora Zen Monastery will help you to arrange the funeral according to your wishes.

Funeral Arrangements

We ask mercy for the dead; may your comforting word be fulfilled, which hope commanded us. You know, O Lord, the time of man, the beginning and the end, you want your creature to be perfected in eternity. Remember all those who, faithful to you, went home believing that through your grace they would receive anew the reward of heaven. Do not let those who are far from you fall into damnation, for they are yours, you give the Savior to all. You promised us father; "I want to find the lost." Even the one who didn't ask about you.

Lord, our God and Father, you to whom we thank life, who always has mercy on people without any barriers, let us not perish in death and hope not in vain. Father, in your hands I entrust my spirit. Take me and give me all yours. I can feel my strength fading, my life will soon come to an end. With confidence, but also with fear, I look ahead and ask you: Take me in your hands, protect me and lead me home to you. The Logos who called you to life and sanctified you. Guide you through the darkness of death and give you peace and eternal life.

Prayer and Meditation for the Funeral

Neither death nor life separates us from love. When I'm dead and lost, they'll lower me into the ground, when I'm lost and forsaken, love will hold me in its hands. I'm deserted and forgotten, love will call me by my name; when I am forgotten and gone, you will shelter me in your faithfulness.