{"id":33146,"date":"2012-06-20T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fleming_rutledge-thinking_about_funerals_what_funerals\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:30:51","slug":"fleming_rutledge-thinking_about_funerals_what_funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33146","title":{"rendered":"Fleming Rutledge&#8211;Thinking about funerals (what funerals?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Episcopal clergyman told me recently that in his 6 years in office, he had never seen the pall used in his parish church. What does that mean? It means that the traditional Anglican funeral, with the coffin present and covered by the pall, has almost ceased to exist. How has this happened? The &#8220;new&#8221; (1979) Book of Common Prayer clearly calls for the body to be present in the church &#8212; the rubrics (italicized instructions) assume it, with instructions such as &#8220;The coffin is to be closed before the service.&#8221; There is even a special set of prayers to be said (p. 466) as the body is brought into the church to repose before the service.<\/p>\n<p>What has happened in the 30+ intervening years to cause this to change so totally? We now have the ubiquitous memorial service, which as far as I know scarcely existed at all thirty years ago&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ruminations.generousorthodoxy.org\/2012\/06\/episcopal-clergyman-told-me-recently.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Episcopal clergyman told me recently that in his 6 years in office, he had never seen the pall used in his parish church. What does that mean? It means that the traditional Anglican funeral, with the coffin present and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33146\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,42,438,66,178,183,155,184,108,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-eschatology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}