Reflecții catehetice pentru pastorația persoanelor îndoliate
Catecheical reflections for the pastoral care of greiving persons

Summary/Abstract: The context of today's world reveals a society overwhelmed with self-esteem, seasoned with the successful goals of the daily agenda, hurried to consume indiscriminately, greedy for any smell, taste and thought that provokes pleasure. In the face of the spectacle that unfolds uninterruptedly before our eyes, on television, at work and in traffic, the contemporary man is rather accustomed to the death of others, in accidents and crimes presented in the news. Time flies irreversibly, and if we ask people what they think about the passing of time, most will say that it is slipping away. Therefore, we live on the run, we eat on the run, we love on the run, we sleep on the run. We live in a world where action and feverishness are valued. The watchwords seem to be activity, movement, success. We have entered a civilization that hates pause, suspension, inactivity. Thinking of the future, we must wisely govern every day of our lives. In other words, the time we have at our disposal can be the time of falling or the time of rising, it can be the time of fruiting or the time of scattering the gifts we have been endowed with by God. When man thinks of his death, then he begins to despise the vanity of the world. His pleasures and pains appear to him, at the same time, laden with futility, and then a little miracle happens in his soul: there is silence. Extracted from the noise, the priorities, the activities that consume his soul, the man takes the relentless reality of death and lays it like a tombstone over what almost everyone calls life. The liturgy of death is a true Christian pedagogy of love, attachment and respect between members of the same family (children towards their deceased parents and siblings, but also parents towards their own deceased children) and between members of the Church, the great Christian family. In other words, what we do for our parents and relatives past to eternity must be repeated by our with us. This is the proof of love that does not forget those who are no longer among us and who is stronger than death, passing beyond the entrance of the grave.

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