{"id":38393,"date":"2019-08-28T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T04:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=38393"},"modified":"2019-08-28T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T04:31:24","slug":"some-thoughts-on-columbaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2019\/08\/28\/some-thoughts-on-columbaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts On Columbaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″ custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image force_fullwidth=”on” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Supporting Image for Fr Bembol” _builder_version=”3.26.7″ animation=”off” sticky=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” always_center_on_mobile=”on” src=”http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/article_frbembol_columbary.jpg”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption ” _builder_version=”3.26.7″ text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”||30px|” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]

You can now avail of the Columbary vaults by giving your donation. The NSDA PARISH COLUMBARY is located at the Himlayang Katoliko<\/em>, General Luna Street, San Mateo Rizal.<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Content for Fr Bembol” _builder_version=”3.26.7″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]

It is a given that burial pre-supposes a belief in the afterlife, otherwise we\u2019d be no different from the ancient Persian who left their dead on some open elevation to be feasted on as carrion by vultures and other such scavengers. This particular practice doesn\u2019t lend itself to our more \u201crespectful\u201d attitude towards our departed, however much we would like to find an acculturative excuse or justification for it is in the spirit of universal hopefulness for continuance in a more evolved \u201cother\u201d life.<\/p>\n

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Be that as it may, mention of the pyramids of Egypt, the catacombs of Rome, the Pantheon and dozens of other burial places hallowed and otherwise argues for the strength and persistence worldwide of this longing to awake once more to a newer life (whether in Christ or for the pagans, under the aegis of whatever duty they\u2019ve put their hopes in. Here in the Philippines we have the enviably apt euphemism for death: SUMAKABILANG BUHAY<\/em>. Life on the other side!\u00a0 For me, that\u2019s nothing to look down on. It\u2019s on a par with the pseudo-scientific \u201cParallel Universe\u201d over which all sorts\u2019 intellectual wannabes chatter ecstatically, SUMAKABILANG BUHAY<\/em> puts it nicely for us here in the Philippines and we should make no bones of that. As for columbaries qua columbaries, let me say a few words here. This now widely acceptable \u201cRESING PLACE\u201d for our loved ones, ashes don\u2019t offend our formerly stringent sensibilities (cremation being once no practice for the Catholics then) \u2013 or at least, not fanatically so.<\/p>\n

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Well, reasons of exigency and sanitation or hygienic have to be considered level-headedly. Because of congestion in cemeteries, columbaries have become a necessarily procreative choice. If by cremation we seem to have accelerated the more flat-flouted behind the exordium: dust\u2026to dust; ashes\u2026to ashes. Now we can see these words and cremation to have lock stepped together at last. Besides, as pointed out above the thought of one\u2019s departed rotting away whilst we are all actively busying ourselves with eating and drinking and jollification and what not these does seem to be a monstrous incongruence or disgusting parallel for those processes to be conjoined in day-to-day experience. It\u2019s not a case of see-no-evil, smell-no-evil.<\/p>\n

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We read of Vlad Tepes the Christian scourge of the Turks in the 15th century dining implacably, surrounded by hundreds if Turks impaled around him, dying slowly, disgustingly we don\u2019t have Vlad\u2019s iron stomach. Do I seem gone off on tangent? I hope not. I\u2019m only supersizing the comparison between the outmoded funeral practices and cremation and urn-ment therein, a few more words. The term columbarium originally meant a \u201cdovecote\u201d (counterpart, \u201cbelief\u201d) and as such the descent of the dive (the Holy Spirit: Hope resonates with the notion of a columbary. A neat conjunction<\/p>\n

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You can now avail of the Columbary Vaults by giving your donation. Call our Parish Office 570-9220 for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[126,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fr-bembol","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ootw-9Zf","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38488,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38393\/revisions\/38488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}