I don't need this vicar at my funeral! I agree that a secular funeral is a missed opportunity to evangelize. However, my eternal salvation is assured and does not depend upon the attendees to pray for me. I am SAVED! I am "right" with God. The blood of Christ shed for me assures that I am already granted eternal life. As for when this salvation was secured? The Bible tells me that I was chosen "from the foundation of the world"!
Are you?
Never -the -less he has a point.
I have also had ‘Another one bites the dust’ requested. And 2 embarrassing moments when the wrong tape was played. Instead of My Way we got the Smurfs. All told a better and less idolatrous song.
Why go for the current Catholic music, which is every bit as New Age-y as Tina Turner? Now, if this good priest is referring to a traditional Funeral Mass, then OK.
And, I notice it only took three posts for a Papist-hater to show up. Don’t let your children see the stuff you post; they already think you’re crazy.
That's called presumption and it's half-baked, "da Bible sez", Protestant theology.
When you die you will be judged as will every other soul. If you were already saved, there would be no need for judgment. St. Paul makes it clear that we must persevere to the end for as long as we have life in us, we have the capacity to sin.
The blood of Christ shed for me assures that I am already granted eternal life.
No it doesn't.
The blood of Christ opened the gates of heaven.
That salvation which is offered to us is contingent upon us cooperating with the the grace of God and living holy lives.
As for when this salvation was secured? The Bible tells me that I was chosen "from the foundation of the world"!
To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes His eternal plan of "predestination", He includes in it each person's free response to His grace. Nothing is imposed over our free will.