Service to celebrate the life of Michael Moffatt
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Inveterate anthropologist Michael wanted a full body burial "so
paleontologists will have something to find one day."
Place:
Fort Lincoln Funeral Home and Fort Lincoln Cemetery
3401 Bladensburg Road
Brentwood, MD 20722
Brentwood, MD 20722
Phone: (301) 864-5090
Directions from wherever you are to Fort Lincoln:
Schedule For Michael’s Sunghwa celebration
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Viewing
10:30 – 12:00: Sunghwa
Service (including testimonies from friends)
After the sunghwa there will be a Wonjun service at the
cemetery.
Following the Wonjun, please join us at a reception (where
testimonies, music and fellowship may continue):
13407 United Lane
Bowie, MD 20720
In lieu of flowers, the family would like to help support
Warm Heart Thailand, remembering Waranee Pokapanichwong, one of Michael’s students.
http://www.warmheartworldwide.org/
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Sunghwa
(Peaceful Ascension)
A
Sunghwa Ceremony is actually comparable to a wedding, when men and
women get married. It’s not a sorrowful occasion at all. It’s
like an insect coming out of its cocoon, getting rid of a shackle and
becoming a new body and a new existence, a new entity. That’s
exactly the same kind of process. Sun Myung Moon ~ April 13, 2010
In
our way of life and tradition, spirit world and physical world are
one, and by our living up to that kind of idea, we bring the two
worlds together into one. In the secular world, death signifies the
end of the life. However in our world, death is like a rebirth or a
new birth into another world. For this reason, we should not make
those occasions gloomy or sad or feel discouraged.
If
we here on earth become very mournful or gloomy, it is like pulling
the person who is going up to the heavens down to the earth. Sun
Myung Moon ~ January 7, 1984
Therefore
we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in
the body, we are away from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight.
We are confident. I say, and would prefer to be away from the body
and at home with the lord. So we make it our goal to please him,
whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
II Corinthian 5:6-9
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