Where Have All The Mourners Gone?

Our family celebrated a memorial Mass for my mother this weekend. Although my mother died several weeks ago, she donated her body to a medical college. Thus, there was no need to have a service right away. We waited until a date that seemed to work for most of our relatives.

While a good number of people came for the visitation and/or the Mass, my siblings and I discussed that there were many more people at my father's visitation and Mass nearly four years ago. We then had the "aha" experience. When thinking about people we thought might have come to my mother's Mass but didn't, it became apparent that my mother outlived many of her friends and peers. Many of her friends have passed away in recent years. Many others are in some type of assisted living.

"Turn about is fair play". Let's say a prayer for those friends that have died or are in need of any type of healing. It's what mom would have wanted.