The goal is to be among those mentioned in this scripture verse, which is read often at funerals as and on All Soul’s Day as well: “The souls of the just are in the hands of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them…they are in peace” (Wisdom 3:1, 3)....
"To me the honour is sufficient of belonging to the universe — such a great universe, and so grand a scheme of things. Not even Death can rob me of that honour. For nothing can alter the fact that I have lived; I have been I, if for ever so short a time. And when I am dead...
Given the long history of identification of Kannon with the needs of mothers and children, it is not surprising that Kannon has also been appropriated as a central figure in these memorial rites -- both to care for spirits in the ’other world’ and to comfort those in the world of the...