09/20/2024
Recently our “Letters to Loved Ones” Program had its 1st Annual Memorial Scattering Ceremony. For full details on what this Program is about, please see our website: https://mcadamsfh.com/199/Letters-To-Loved-Ones.html
The following are a few quotes taken from the ceremony, which was held on September 17, 2024.
“Tonight is about remembrance, love and treasured thoughts. Many of you have brought letters and cards to our memory mailbox over the last year. In these, I’m sure, are your written memories, your inner thoughts or maybe just a day-to-day conversation you wrote to your loved one. We have collected all of these written treasures together and brought them down to their smallest form of ash, to scatter amongst our memorial garden.”
“We do hope that our ceremonial scattering here tonight brings a measure of comfort to you all. This act of remembrance can transform your grief into a tangible expression of farewell. It’s a way of integrating our sorrow into the natural world. Letting our thoughts and feelings be one with the earth and allowing it to foster the growth of a beautiful memorial garden. Let the M. Joyce Perry Memorial Garden be a place you can return to and sit with your thoughts and revel in your memories.”
“Our Letter’s to Loved Ones program is the first of its kind in Canada”
“Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of when or where your loved one died, or where services took place. Your letters will be gathered regularly, and kept safe. Once a year, we will burn the sealed letters, symbolically releasing your messages of love to those you’ve lost. We will then invite you all to gather, as we are today, for a short memorial ceremony, where we will scatter the ashes in our memorial garden” at McAdam’s Funeral Home in Fredericton.