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Readings for Funerals

Readings for Funerals

by Mark Oakley (Compiler)

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    Paperback 2015

    $14.77
Synopsis

Help for those who have been bereaved to express their thoughts and feelings. Will make people more confident in planning a funeral service and dealing with clergy. Many non-churchgoers attend funerals. The book will contain pieces that offer an insight into the difference Christian faith and hope can make. Follows the style of the highly successful Readings for Weddings which has sold over 7,000 copies. Readings for Funerals is a perceptive collection of Bible quotations, poems, hymns and prose, offering consolation and comfort to those bereaved. Featuring the writing of, amongst others, W. H. Auden, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot and Joyce Grenfell, it is suitable for use at secular funerals, celebrations of a life and church services.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 258
 Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Published: 15 Jan 2015
ISBN 10: 0281071802
ISBN 13: 9780281071807

Media Reviews
'This book will be a great help and a real comfort to anyone going through a difficult time in their life - something that happens to us all sooner or later.' Dame Judi Dench
Author Bio
Mark Oakley is Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral. He was formerly Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden, then Archdeacon of Germany and Northern Europe, and subsequently priest-in-charge of the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, London. He is the author of The Collage of God (DLT, 2001), and compiler of Readings for Weddings (SPCK, 2004).