Funeral Ceremony – Eulogy Speaker – This is my life, dying is my gain. I want to surrender to everything!
The funeral service marks the conscious moment of farewell — a pause between transience and eternity. Master Reding, from the Nigredo Monastery, leads this sacred hour with dignity and quiet clarity. Through prayer, meditation, and words of comfort, he guides the mourners in honoring the life of the departed with reverence, gratitude, and peace.
The Funeral Service – Transience and Consolation
Ah, how fleeting, ah, how fragile is the life of man!
Like mist that rises and fades again —
so passes our life, see how swiftly.These ancient lines remind us of the fragility of life — a breath, a moment, a spark between beginning and end. Yet within that brief light dwells the divine — a presence that does not vanish, but returns to the source of all being.
Master Reding conducts each funeral service as a space of stillness and reflection. Here, sorrow may speak — but so too may gratitude. Life is remembered, the soul is released, and the way opens toward what lies beyond death.
Prayer and Meditation
This is my life — to die is gain. I surrender all and go forth in peace. I have overcome the cross, the pain, the fear and the night — I am reconciled with God.
When my strength is broken, my breath grows faint, and my words fall silent — Father, receive my sighing. When my heart and thoughts waver like a trembling flame, when the light fades — let me fall asleep gently and in stillness, according to your will, when my hour comes.
These words speak not only of endings, but of trust. Thus the funeral service becomes a prayer of homecoming — from weight into stillness, from the visible into the unseen, from the human into the divine.
In You Let Me Live and Remain
In You let me live and remain all my days,
that You may grant me heaven’s joy and peace.
So the ceremony closes not with finality, but with a breath into eternity. For whoever walks in love remains within love — always.
Master Reding accompanies families through this final hour with presence, compassion, and prayer — so that farewell may not be an end, but a quiet fulfillment.