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  • Memorial Services
    Memorial services can be held in a range of settings, and can take place any time after someone's death: from a few day to months later...

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  • Love Does Not Disappear
    By Elea Kemler
    In the eighteen years I’ve served as minister of my small-town congregation, I have led 96 memorial services, most for people I have loved. The longer I stay, the deeper I love and the more I grieve.
  • Love Showed Up
    By Elizabeth Harding
    Remembering is the art of holding a memory and sharing it; it’s drawing upon that memory so it can help us to grow into people who live lives of meaning and service. As a practice, remembering connects us deeply to each other and to the love that sustains us.

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  • Poem: Petty love
    By Sue Burke
    Love small enough to curse a cell or sky.
    Image credit: © Hubble Heritage (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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  • Closing Memorial Prayer
    By Joel Miller
    Spirit of Life and Love: Under the vast spiral of time and space, surrounded by the simple blessings of a community of care and love, we carry these memories of (our beloved) with us back to the community and life they* loved. We pray: ...
  • Cauldron Prayer
    By Rebecka Clement
    Lady of Love, of all the world's children, take this child for safekeeping.
  • Blessing of the Ashes
    By Addae Ama Kraba
    Blessings for a life well lived.
  • Prayer of Remembrance
    By Lori Walke
    Holy One, on this day of remembrance we say aloud their names again: the names of those who died this year. Died — the word is jarring. So...
  • What I Know
    By Kenneth W. Collier
    I do not know where we go when we die; And I do not know what the soul is Or what death is or when or why. What I know is that The song...
  • We Cannot Extinguish the Love
    By Greg Ward
    We have come to share the loss we have felt in (Name) passing and some examples of the joy we carry from her/his/their* life. This we have...
  • To Carry the Light Forward
    By Greg Ward
    If we are lucky, we will all get a chance during our life to know someone who becomes for us an exemplar of living. And if we are really...
  • Our Grief Is a Holy Thing
    By Tracie Barrett-Welser
    Our grief is a holy thing. It is that proof that another life touched ours in a profound way. It is the mark of love, the mark of...
  • Honoring a Difficult Death
    By Maureen Killoran
    Open your hearts, my friends, And let yourself feel the reality of absence. Open your hearts, and acknowledge That we gather in the...
  • Hands Touching Hands
    By Matt Alspaugh
    I invite you to rise in body or in spirit, and join hands with your neighbors. Hands touch hands. These hands you hold now, once held...
  • Blessing for Life and the End of Life
    By Natalie Fenimore
    We offer blessings for life and the end of life. Blessings for the dying. Blessings for the caregiver, holding love and carrying burden...
  • Immortality
    By Leslie Takahashi
    In the daily weave of our lives, those who have died are still strong, guiding threads. Theirs is the golden glimmer or perhaps the...
  • This Sacred Thread
    By Heather K Janules
    They once dwelled among us, the people of memory. They who knew us, they who taught us, They who hurt us, they who loved us. They touch our...
  • For All Our Losses
    By Patricia Shelden
    For those we miss. For things long gone. For those who or what we last held in our arms, in our hands and in our hearts — we pray. We pray...
  • Never Fully Extinguished
    By Patricia Shelden
    In this hour of holy stillness we gather to honor the life and the person we love. In this hour of Holy Stillness we remind ourselves that...
  • Chalice Lighting for a Memorial Service
    By S. William Feiss
    We light this flame As our fervent plea to brighten the dark corners of our hearts; We hold this flame For in it is the promise of warmth...
  • The Green After
    By Meg Barnhouse
    Today I have too many friends who are dying. Sometimes at a memorial service I feel dissatisfied, and I’m the preacher in charge. I realize...
  • They Are with Us Still
    By Kathleen McTigue
    In the ­struggles we choose for ourselves, in the ways we move forward in our lives and bring our world forward with us, It is right to...
  • More Than One Life
    By Lee Huebert
    Lighting a candle is somewhat like the beginning of life. If that is true, then perhaps extinguishing a candle is like the ending of life...
  • Jazz Funeral for the Old Year
    By Melanie Morel-Ensminger
    Introduction to a New Orleans Jazz Funeral Welcome to a new tradition for our church—a New Orleans-style jazz funeral for the old year...
  • A Blessing for the Ashes
    By Naomi King
    Single Set of Cremains Whispering Breath of Mystery, rattling the windows of our spirits with tears and sorrow, draw us back to the...

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