First off, the priest is the one in the robe, not the one wearing a Q 2000 t-shirt. The one in the Q shirt is holding a bullhorn and wearing an earpiece. It's the quote from the article that makes me uneasy, That first year after the attacks, he said, he doesn't remember how many funerals and memorial Masses he "celebrated". Celebrated?
Memorial Mass just means that they include a prayer intention for the soul of an individual. It could still be a normal Sunday service.
The term celebrate is always used to describe the mass. It's where we remember Christ's gift of forgiveness and his gift of himself and his resurrection. There is much to celebrate.
Catholic funerals are usually just the mass said with the body present. That's why a priest might say he celebrated a funeral. Because he celebrated the funeral mass.
In short, this is normal. It's just a cultural difference.
First off, the priest is the one in the robe, not the one wearing a Q 2000 t-shirt. The one in the Q shirt is holding a bullhorn and wearing an earpiece. It's the quote from the article that makes me uneasy, That first year after the attacks, he said, he doesn't remember how many funerals and memorial Masses he "celebrated". Celebrated?
Memorial Mass just means that they include a prayer intention for the soul of an individual. It could still be a normal Sunday service.
The term celebrate is always used to describe the mass. It's where we remember Christ's gift of forgiveness and his gift of himself and his resurrection. There is much to celebrate.
Catholic funerals are usually just the mass said with the body present. That's why a priest might say he celebrated a funeral. Because he celebrated the funeral mass.
In short, this is normal. It's just a cultural difference.