SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION (PENANCE)
is available on Saturday
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. and any other time upon request.
Communal Penance Service is held during Advent and Lent.
COMMUNION
FOR THE SICK
The pastor and Extra-ordinary Ministers of Holy Communion are happy to bring communion to the sick, elderly,
or home bound, who are unable to attend Church.
Ordinarily the priest will visit Culpeper Hospital twice per week.
Please notify the rectory if you wish to have someone visited. Arrangements should also be made with the rectory for an Extra-ordinary
Minister to bring Holy Communion to shut-ins on a regular basis. EMERGENCY SICK CALLS CAN BE ARRANGED ANY TIME.
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CATHOLIC FUNERAL GUILDLILNES
The National Conference
of Catholic Bishops has issued the following guidelines for funerals:
*Following the ancient traditions of humankind and the Catholic
community, the Church asks us to celebrate the funeral of those gone forth in a liturgy with their bodily remains present.
This shows proper and appropriate respect for the vessel indwelt by the Holy Spirit and used throughout their journey of faith
her on Earth. This is the body that will be raised up in glory by Our Lord at the end of time. This funeral Liturgy
usually takes place in the Church at the celebration of the Eucharist. Following this celebration, the Church recommends
the respectful internment or entombment of the body.
* However, the church also recognizes the desire of some to use cremation as the preferred
method of disposition. In view of this desire, the church recommends that cremation take place AFTER the funeral Liturgy.
Following the cremation, the ashes should be buried or entombed.
* If significant
reason to depart from these guidelines exist, reasonable accommodations may be made. Any modified arrangements should
be discussed with a priest. You can call the pastor with questions regarding actual funeral arrangements before the
need actually arises.
