Comments on: One small step… http://johnorr.me.uk/2009/11/03/one-small-step/ Random mutterings and musings of mine - a work in progress Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:31:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John http://johnorr.me.uk/2009/11/03/one-small-step/comment-page-1/#comment-4517 John Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:07:38 +0000 http://johnorr.me.uk/?p=549#comment-4517 <p>Hi Dave,</p> <p>Not dissimilar to my supervisor's maxim of "see one, share one, do one". I think your sister's one is just a tad scarier though.</p> Hi Dave,

Not dissimilar to my supervisor’s maxim of “see one, share one, do one”. I think your sister’s one is just a tad scarier though.

]]> By: Dave http://johnorr.me.uk/2009/11/03/one-small-step/comment-page-1/#comment-4514 Dave Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:59:16 +0000 http://johnorr.me.uk/?p=549#comment-4514 <blockquote> By that time I’ll practically be an expert. </blockquote> My sister, a medic, used to say that with medical/surgical procedures, sometimes it was "see one, do one, teach one" - I never quite figured out if she was winding me up!

By that time I’ll practically be an expert.

My sister, a medic, used to say that with medical/surgical procedures, sometimes it was “see one, do one, teach one” – I never quite figured out if she was winding me up!

]]> By: David http://johnorr.me.uk/2009/11/03/one-small-step/comment-page-1/#comment-4513 David Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:53:09 +0000 http://johnorr.me.uk/?p=549#comment-4513 I sometimes have the committal during a prayer. It isn't my usual practice, but there are times when the emotion of the occasion bubbles up at that point in the service. At other crematoria the words of committal coincide with curtains drawing across and this is the last families see a loved one and it can be rather dramatic.  Falkirk Crem has the coffin covered as soon as it is brought forward and then lowered during the first hymn. It is advisable to have a decent length of hymn, otherwise machinery is heard lowering the coffin and that isn't particularly helpful.  I sometimes have the committal during a prayer. It isn’t my usual practice, but there are times when the emotion of the occasion bubbles up at that point in the service. At other crematoria the words of committal coincide with curtains drawing across and this is the last families see a loved one and it can be rather dramatic.  Falkirk Crem has the coffin covered as soon as it is brought forward and then lowered during the first hymn. It is advisable to have a decent length of hymn, otherwise machinery is heard lowering the coffin and that isn’t particularly helpful. 

]]> By: John http://johnorr.me.uk/2009/11/03/one-small-step/comment-page-1/#comment-4512 John Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:14:15 +0000 http://johnorr.me.uk/?p=549#comment-4512 <p>Yes there was - it's incorporated into the second prayer.</p> <p>I can see the justification for this. It can be a particularly emotional point in the service and to have the words of committal wrapped into the prayer means that it is being done at a more 'discreet' time. Not so much to hide it, but rather to have it happen during a phase when people may already be reflecting on the death and life of the person.</p> <p>Would I always do it that way? Not sure, but I certainly see the merit of it.</p> Yes there was – it’s incorporated into the second prayer.

I can see the justification for this. It can be a particularly emotional point in the service and to have the words of committal wrapped into the prayer means that it is being done at a more ‘discreet’ time. Not so much to hide it, but rather to have it happen during a phase when people may already be reflecting on the death and life of the person.

Would I always do it that way? Not sure, but I certainly see the merit of it.

]]> By: Nik http://johnorr.me.uk/2009/11/03/one-small-step/comment-page-1/#comment-4511 Nik Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:06:29 +0000 http://johnorr.me.uk/?p=549#comment-4511 you didn't have a committal in the liturgy?? you didn’t have a committal in the liturgy??

]]> By: John http://johnorr.me.uk/2009/11/03/one-small-step/comment-page-1/#comment-4510 John Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:37:50 +0000 http://johnorr.me.uk/?p=549#comment-4510 <p>Actually - both are correct so :p</p> Actually – both are correct so :p

]]> By: John http://johnorr.me.uk/2009/11/03/one-small-step/comment-page-1/#comment-4509 John Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:35:55 +0000 http://johnorr.me.uk/?p=549#comment-4509 <p>One typo in 400 words and you pick me up on it!</p> <p>Sorted. Happy now?</p> One typo in 400 words and you pick me up on it!

Sorted. Happy now?

]]> By: Alison http://johnorr.me.uk/2009/11/03/one-small-step/comment-page-1/#comment-4508 Alison Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:24:18 +0000 http://johnorr.me.uk/?p=549#comment-4508 "focussed"? “focussed”?

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