If you were unable to hear the hymns Kosta posted in .ram format, here is one of them in MP3
Vjecnaja Pamjat (Memory Eternal - MP3)
The service was in a small parish church in Moscow. It was well attended. One of those present was my friend Victor, whose article I once translated and posted here, (Why Is the End of the World Inevitable?). It is remarkable because that was the first church he restored as an iconographer. Another was a cat, -- who walked from the outside, went straight to the coffin, paused rubbing at the stand, and marched on into the altar. My mother left 6 orphaned cats, now in common care where she lived.
My mother lived a remarkable and blessed life. May her memory be eternal and her soul in peace.
(((Hugs)))Love the story about the cat.
Amen! And thank you so much for the links!
I have an update about the cat.
On that day everyone took it to be a sign of my mother’s great love for cats. Now I learned that my wife actually asked Claretian fraternity of St. Jude to pray and the petitions she had were that my mother see Jesus and that a cat be in her company in paradise. The sign therefore was given us to know that the entire petition was fulfilled.