A Reflection on the Necrology (and My Mom, Who’s Alive)

As background, the Episcopal Church uses a governance structure that features a Vestry, roughly a dozen church members elected by the congregation. I am in my second term on the Vestry at Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati. In our current practice, each month a member of Vestry is asked to lead a reflection at our meeting. Typically this involves selecting a relevant or poignant Bible passage, musing on the relevance or poignance of the passage to the member’s life experience, and a question to prompt further discussion among the group.