Dedications

Trust for that matter in any hospital is now fiction like ethics, honest business practices and customer care. Everything is business. No more humanity left. Hospitals too are a corporate business model where the vision and mission is bottom line. Even if it means a patient lowered to the bottom of a grave. Hospitals will try their best to administer treatments which keep their cash registers beeping like the monitors in the wards where patients are connected too. 

Then comes the final adieu one bids to a loved one after death. Imagine Churches having rules where a funeral mass and burial can be only done in the parish of the area they belong. Otherwise they need a no objection certificate from the area parish priest? Did Jesus Christ asking for domicile of people who he healed or a No Objection Certificate when he raised Lazarus from the dead? 

Messaged many priests and thought they will rush when called to say a funeral mass. Many did not even reply. Some had excuses which reminded me of a hymn sung in Church, 'I cannot come to the Banquet'. 

https://youtu.be/tW_vdsU_Bb8?si=dcB-fWK1TenJoAi1

A song based on a parable where A king directs his messengers to invite all common ordinary people to come to the feast. This is because the chosen guests have refused to come. 

Maybe if it was a banquet many of these priests would have attended. Or if it was a rich man's funeral. The altar would have be crowded with the amount of priests that would have congregated to concelebrate the funeral mass of a rich or influential man. How many of these priests would have excused or refused to reply to a message from Vatican to say mass at Pope Francis's recent funeral if they were called.

This blog is to express gratitude to Fr. Jolly SVD who was the only priest who volunteered to say the funeral mass. Though by then other priests were arranged and he was not required.