Reference Materials
The reference materials listed here help broaden our understanding of the issues most of us face when life changes.


Books

Through Death to Life
by Joseph M. Champlin, published by Ave Maria Press
A superb planning resource for funeral liturgies, including pastoral compassion and spiritual support for bereaving families, relatives and friends. In the "Introduction" and in a six-page "Message for the Family", Champlin offers poignant reflections based on his pastoral and personal encounters with the death of a loved one and instills comfort in the present sorrow and hope in God's promise.

Order of Christian Funerals with Cremation Rite 
by Catholic Book Publishing Co, published by Catholic Book Publishing Corp (1990)
The Order of Christian Funerals (with Cremation Rite) from Catholic Book Publishing contains texts for the Vigil and related rites and prayers, the Funeral Liturgy, Rite of Committal, and Funeral Rites for Children, as well as texts for Scripture Readings, the Office for the Dead, and additional texts. This liturgical book for Catholic funerals also includes the material from Appendix 2: Cremation (except for \Reflection\), approved and published in 1997.