We have private and public grief as well as cultural grief.

Cultural grief sometimes finds expression in the death of high profile people whose lives, work, or reputations have touched, informed, and enlightened our own lives.

We tend to mourn them in public comments, statements, and rituals and those movements of our lives teach us how to better deal with our grief in our personal lives, families, and communities …

It is best if we do not do so alone.

When We Mourn Together …

… we heal and grow.

There is always more to any of us than meets the eye.

May we all take time to look into the eyes and hearts of our neighbors, ask questions, stop and listen, and listen some more and sometimes just sit and stare and the sky together.

Life is a vapor, but a very wonderful vapor. With all the pain and sorrow, may joy envelop your days for in joy, there are moments of grace.

It is good for a people to mourn together.

Jewish tradition has given us an example of a formal ritual prayer of mourning called the Mourners' Kaddish.

Mourner’s Kaddish in English Translation

Glorified and sanctified be God’s great name throughout the world
which He has created according to His will.

May He establish His kingdom in your lifetime and during your days,
and within the life of the entire House of Israel, speedily and soon;
and say, Amen.

May His great name be blessed forever and to all eternity.

Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, extolled and honored,
adored and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed be He,
beyond all the blessings and hymns, praises and consolations that
are ever spoken in the world; and say, Amen.

May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life, for us
and for all Israel; and say, Amen.

He who creates peace in His celestial heights,
may He create peace for us and for all Israel;
and say, Amen.

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