Dying and Rising with Christ A Pastoral Message

Release Date: 2/2/13

In his pastoral letter, “In Union with Christ’s Dying and Rising: Our Catholic Funeral Rites as a Sharing in the Paschal Mystery,” Archbishop Vigneron offers an understanding of Catholic funeral rites – which, he points out, are about salvation and “are essential to the life of faith, hope and charity to which God the Father calls us.”