Prayers at the Graveside Aside from the time of mourning, the month of November, including especially All Saints' day and All Souls' day, is a traditional time for visiting graves, as is the ...

The lines which form a prelude to the published volume of her poems are the only ones that have come to light ... like every human biography, with funerals, yet with such as were to Emily Dickinson ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

Sometimes, people are stuck for words when death is around, but the Irish always have a saying or some wisdom to fill the void. When it comes to death, the Irish really know how to deliver a ...

With so much having already been said — on all sides — about tomorrow’s election, I am taking my cue for this column from the Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama.

"In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes," wrote Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the ...

The funeral mass has been held for Kathleen Watkins, wife of the late Gay Byrne, who died at the age of 90 on November 7 ...

And it’s important to remember the reality into which we will speak our prayers. Consider Psalm 121:1-2. In the ESV translation, it begins, “I lift my eyes up to the hills.” Notice the “h ...

The first namaj-e-janaza (funeral prayer) of Matia Chowdhury, a senior member of the Awami League's presidium and a veteran politician, was held before her Ramna Apartment Complex residence in the ...

Funeral prayers of nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was offered at Faisal Mosque, Islamabad on Sunday. Dr Muhammad Al-Ghazali led the funeral prayer. Federal Ministers, parliamentarians, civil ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...