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…and the priest said something that really stuck with me ( fancy that! ).

It just so happens that the priest giving the sermon was the son of the Departed.   As  he stood behind the open casket containing his dear dad the priest said A lot of people ask me What is our soul they say I just dont understand what the soul is and I tell them Come to a funeral.  for me that was one of the best descriptions of a soul I ever heard because I was looking at his dad lying there and I understood what a soul is by understanding what it isn’t: The soul is everything you are, minus your body.

Let us go forth, and gaze into the tombs: for man is naked bones, food for the worms, and stench; and we shall learn what are riches, and comeliness, and beauty, and strength. [AND WHAT IS A SOUL]

From The Order for theBurial of the Dead

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