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Good day brothers and sisters in Christ
Ministry of Consolation is one of the smaller ministry of St. Anne’s Church, in terms of its members. Ministry of Consolation, in short MOC has presently about 10 Principal Ministerial members and about 27 Auxiliary members.
The main focal of our ministerial activity is to render our support and service to the bereaved families of our Church. MOC will provide one night’s wake prayers per funeral for the bereaved family and will co-ordinate and assist with the funeral mass services.
MOC conducts monthly columbarium prayers of the church on the last Sunday of every month.
The uniqueness of this ministry is that all our members are purely voluntary and they can choose to join in the Wakes or Funeral Prayers when time permits.
Introduction:
"If one member suffers in the body of Christ which is the Church, all the members suffer with that member" (1 Corinthians 12:26)
For this reason, those who are baptised into Christ and nourished at the same table of the Lord are responsible for one another.
When Christians are sick, their brothers and sisters share a ministry of mutual charity and "do all that they can to help the sick return to health, by showing love for the sick, and by celebrating the sacraments with them."
So too when a member of Christ's body dies, the faithful are called to a ministry of consolation to those who have suffered the loss of one whom they love. Christian’s consolation is rooted in that hope that comes from faith in the saving death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Christian hope faces the reality of death and the anguish of grief but trusts confidently that the power of sin and death have been vanquished by the risen Lord
The Church calls each member of the Christian Body priest, deacon, layperson to participate in the ministry of consolation: to care for the dying, to pray for the dead, and to comfort those who mourn.