The Church is close to those who mourn for the loss of a loved one. In the face of death, the Church confidently proclaoims that God has created each person for eternal life and that Jesus, the Son of God, by his death and resurrection, has broken the chains of sin and death that bound humanity.

The Christian community celebrates the funeral rites to offer worship, praise, and thanksgiving to God for the gift of a life that has now been returned to God, the author of life and the hope of the just. The Funeral Mass, the memorial of Christ's death and resurrection, is the principal celebration of the Christian Funeral. 

At the close of the Church's funeral rites,  "we sing for our loved one's departure from this life and separation from us, but also because there is a communion and a reunion. For even dead, we are not at all separated from one another, because we all run the same course and we will find one another again in the same place. We shall never be separated, for we live for Christ, and now we are united with Christ as we go toward him . . . we shall all be together in Christ."