Funeral tributes

All Saints - Kettlestone [Link]
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Funeral tributes

Hemblington - All Saints [Link]

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Funeral tributes

Hemblington - All Saints [Link]

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Watercolour and floral offerings

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All Saints - Rackheath

Weep no more for what is past

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WEEP NO MORE FOR WHAT IS PAST

(from "The Cruel Brother," 1630)

EEP no more for what is past,

For time in motion makes such haste

He hath no leisure to descry

Those errors which he passeth by.

If we consider accident,

And how repugnant unto sense

It pays desert with bad event,

We shall disparage Providence.

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668)

Flowers in Church

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In the past I've shown flowers in Churches and that seems OK. I don't show flowers on graves as that seems morally inappropriate as the flowers are a sign of grief and a sign of remembrance and that is an entirely private matter and not to be 'gate crashed' in any manner. Flowers in Church always reminds me of a sort of animism where we place greenery in the Church as a reminder of the world outside. The flowers are a sort of offering to the ancestors in this Christian cult of death.

Is this hard on Christianity? You decide!