Orender Family Home for Funerals

08/08/2025

08/06/2025

08/03/2025

-Sunday Prayer-

Deep silence leads us to realize that prayer is, above all, acceptance. When we pray, we are standing with our hands open to the world. We know that God will become known to us in the nature around us, in people we meet, and in situations we run into. We trust that the world holds God’s secret within and we expect that secret to be shown to us. Prayer creates that openness in which God is given to us. Indeed, God wants to be admitted into the human heart, received with open hands, and loved with the same love with which we have been created.
-Henri Nouwen

07/27/2025

-Sunday Prayer-

“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.”
-Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 - July 19, 2025)

07/25/2025

Our friends among the dead now live where time and space are transfigured. They behold us now in ways they never could have when they lived beside us on earth. Because they live near the source of destiny, their blessings for us are accurate and penetrating, offering a divine illumination not available according to the calculations of the given visible world. Perhaps one of the surprises of death will be a retrospective view of the lives we lived here and to see how our friends among the dead clothed us in weave after weave of blessing.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the books, To Bless the Space Between Us (US) / Benedictus (Europe)
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County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

07/21/2025

A cartoon by Harry Bliss, from 2022.

07/20/2025

-Sunday Prayer-

"Contemplative prayer, contemplative love, penetrates and radiates beyond walls and frontiers, and pierces into the depths of woundedness.”
-Fr. Daniel Chowning

07/19/2025

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07/18/2025

The Orender Family Home for Funerals' goal is to provide families with personal service in an elegant setting at affordable prices. Our commitment to serve comes from strong family values. We understand the needs and concerns of families because we are family.
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