Re: At Catholic funerals when people--all at once--drop flowers onto a casket in a ditch, do they bring the flowers to funeral, or are they already there?

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:58:12 -0700 (PDT), Chris Tsao <rigida7147@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 10, 10:27 pm, Chris Tsao <rigida7...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 10, 1:28 am, rwalker <rwal...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:55:51 -0400, sligoNoSPAM...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 22:18:25 -0700 (PDT), Chris Tsao
<rigida7...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

At Catholic funerals when people--all at once--drop flowers onto a
casket in a ditch, do they bring the flowers to funeral, or are they
already there?

Thank you in advance.

   I have never seen it.   I would guess it is a local or ethnic
tradition.

Same here.  Been Catholic all my life, and have been to many funerals,
but I've never seen this.  

Oh. Do people lay a single flower or a few of them at a time on a
casket before it's put in a grave? I just researched this online real
quick and saw three or four photographs from different funerals of
people doing this. I gave some of the links below. I need to know for
a story I'm writing and I've written it wrong three times already (I
think?). In this link, I think they're taking them from a bucket?http://open.salon.com/blog/dogwoman/2009/04/19/white_shores_are_calli...

From what I gather from the link above, it was a family who brought
the flowers so that different members of the family can place them on
the coffin at the cemetary. I found it with key words "lay flowers on
casket."

http://www.nationalwarmemorial.govt.nz/unknown/images/mantle1.jpg

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/dimitrios-gaviel-funeral-photo-06.jpg

I don't mean to be a pain, but does anybody out there know whether
people place flowers on someone's casket before or after the priest
reads "... to the ground: earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to
dust. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who died, and was buried,
and rose again for us, and who ..."? Thank you again.

Flowers are brought from the funeral home as donated by well wishers to the
grave site. Grave sites are not normally big enough to hold anything but
"single" flowers.

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