Funerals and Bereavement

This very practical resource offers a well-informed guide to an aspect of ministry that every single priest or minister will encounter. It is one of the most difficult tasks, yet many embark on it with very little theological or practical training....

This wide-ranging collection of prayers, readings and liturgies provides a complete pastoral resource for a time when intensive support is needed. Here are forms of words for every stage in the process, from the time of death to conducting a...

First published in 1987 and revised in 1997 when the Roman Catholic Funeral Rite was revised, this new bilingual edition incorporates the new rite of the Church in Wales and the free churches’ rite developed by the Joint Liturgical Group, now...

The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer.

Tears are a common experience we rarely discuss, and then only in relation to pain and loss. David Runcorn draws upon a long Christian tradition of seeing tears as a gift to explore their deeper meaning and purpose, their place in human life and...