Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Kansas City, MO issued the following announcement on Oct. 11

Death creeps into our lives almost secretly. We lose members of our families and close friends. We buckle up in the car as an unreflective admission that each trip poses mortal danger. We age and experience the gradual loss of our abilities

For those who believe in Christ, death is but a passageway to eternity. The funeral rites of the church help us ritualize our belief even as we mourn our loss.]Isaiah offers images of God’s providence that fit the hope of Christians. He imagines a new Jerusalem, settled on God’s holy mountain. In his vision, God provides a rich banquet—not just minimal food for the hungry, not just basic sustenance, but a banquet in which God’s people taste delight. Isaiah imagines death as a veil that covers everyone, a web woven over all the nations. But in this vision, that veil is fragile, subject to destruction by God’s deliberate might.

For Christians, the contrast between death and life is the contrast between hunger and banquet. Whenever the sadness of death threatens to overpower the people we love or our very lives, our belief in Christ brings all the comfort of rich food and drink.

Original source can be found here.