Memorial Service in Zurich – Farewell Speaker – Funeral Speaker: The Thought of Death Leaves Me in Complete Peace!
In an hour of silence and farewell, I accompany you with an open heart and reverent mindfulness. As a freelance funeral speaker, I design farewell ceremonies marked by dignity, symbolic power, and love – rituals that offer comfort, build bridges between heaven and earth, and honor the deceased in gratitude. My ceremonies combine the clarity of Zen with the depth of Christian wisdom and monastic tradition. Thus, your memorial service becomes a conscious, symbolic, and unforgettable experience – from heart to heart.
Whether at the cemetery, a memorial gathering in a familiar circle, or scattering ashes in the mountains, by the lake, or in the forest – the ceremony becomes a reflection of the personality of the person who has left us. Relatives of all faiths are welcome. Upon request, we weave symbols and rituals from different traditions together, so that every mourner finds comfort in their own language of faith.
As a funeral speaker and farewell speaker, Master Reding from the Nigredo Monastery designs your memorial service in Zurich respectfully, dignified, and individually according to your wishes. Zurich, the vibrant metropolis by Lake Zurich, with its historic districts, green parks, and picturesque shores, offers an ideal backdrop for a spiritual farewell ceremony or funeral.
The city has 19 municipal cemeteries, including well-known sites like Sihlfeld Cemetery – a garden monument with striking trees and paths, serving not only as a burial place but also as an oasis for recreation and reflection. Other cemeteries like Nordheim or Schwandenholz with their chapels enable diverse memorial services, from traditional earth burials to urn interments. In Zurich, funerals are regulated by the Burial and Cemetery Office, which coordinates dates and locations, and offers flexibility for non-denominational or religious ceremonies – always in harmony with the urban and nature-oriented atmosphere of the city, where the mystical presence of the lake and mountains forms a bridge to higher spheres.
Memorial Service in Zurich: Individual Design as Farewell Speaker
Zurich combines tradition and modernity, reflected in the options for memorial services. As a funeral speaker in Zurich, Meister Reding adapts the ceremony to your needs: Whether a quiet farewell in the Nordheim Cemetery Chapel, a memorial in the Schwandenholz Chapel, or a nature-oriented burial in the park area of Sihlfeld Cemetery. These places invite mystical moments where the farewell becomes a spiritual transformation – open to Christian, Zen-inspired, or non-denominational elements.
The focus is on healing, gratitude, and honoring the deceased, amidst the lively city that yet offers spaces of silence, where the soul can resonate in transcendent connectedness, surrounded by an aura of the eternal that pierces the veil between this world and the beyond.
Tree Ritual – Memorial Service Zurich
In honor of the deceased, a tree ritual was performed during the memorial service in Zurich. The planted tree symbolizes the cycle of life and death – a living monument that takes root and grows, like the memories of the loved one. In Zurich's cemeteries like Sihlfeld, where trees and green spaces dominate, this ritual becomes a profound symbol of renewal that offers comfort and deepens the connection to nature. Mystically, the tree rises as a guardian of the soul, whispering the secrets of the cosmos in its leaves and embodying the transition to a higher dimension, where life and death dance in eternal harmony.
Fire Ritual: Symbolic Transformation
Mementos of the deceased were burned, and the ashes were subsequently interred in the earth during the tree ritual. This fire ritual, inspired by ancient wisdom, embodies transience and rebirth – an act of letting go that transforms pain into light. As a farewell speaker, Meister Reding leads such rituals with mindfulness, creating a space for spiritual healing in the memorial service. The fire, as a mystical element, purifies the soul and ignites an inner flame of enlightenment, carrying the deceased into the spheres of the infinite, where the light of eternity penetrates all shadows.
Prayer and Meditation at the Farewell Ceremony: Spiritual Depth
In silence, prayer and meditation invite you to honor the pain and find inner peace. Meister Reding as funeral speaker weaves mystical texts into the farewell ceremony that offer hope and connectedness, opening portals to deeper dimensions of being:
The thought of death leaves me in complete peace. It is just like with the sun. We see it set on the horizon, but know that it continues to shine 'over there.' A distance that was, from which we come. It is a distance that will be, to which we go.
I have the dead, and I let them go and was amazed. To see them so confident, so quickly at home in being dead, so just, so different from their reputation. Only you, you return, you brush against me, you wander, you want to bump into something. So that it sounds of you and betrays you. When something is taken from us, with which we are deeply and wonderfully connected. So much of ourselves is taken away with it. But God wants us to find ourselves again, richer by all that is lost and increased by every infinite pain.
O Lord, give each his own death. The dying that proceeds from that life, in which he had love, meaning, and need.
When you think of me, remember the hour in which you loved me most. That we were startled when you died, no, that your strong death interrupted us darkly, tearing the until then from the since then: that concerns us. To integrate that will be the work we do with everything.
Death is great. We are his with laughing mouths. When we think we are in the midst of life, he dares to weep in the midst of us.
These words, inspired by spiritual wisdom, underscore the message: The thought of death leaves me in complete peace! In a memorial service in Zurich, they become a source of comfort, open to all faiths, and invite a mystical immersion where the soul transcends the boundaries of the material and merges in the unity of the cosmos.
Why Choose Meister Reding as Funeral Speaker in Zurich?
Many families in Zurich choose Meister Reding as farewell speaker because his memorial services are authentic, empathetic, and spiritually profound. His unique synthesis of Zen and Christian mysticism creates spaces where grief flows into gratitude, and mystical elements turn the ceremony into a journey into hidden worlds. The costs are 850 CHF plus expenses (0.85 CHF per kilometer) and a voluntary donation – transparent and fair.
Planning a memorial service or funeral in Zurich? Contact Meister Reding as funeral speaker at info@trauerredner-beerdigung.ch or visit Nigredo Monastery at Ussbergstrasse 26, 8864 Reichenburg. Together, we will design a dignified farewell.