Funerals,

Memorial and Thanksgiving Services

Please contact the parish administrator  office@holytrinitybramley.org.uk or one of the churchwardens  Suzanne Oldrey and Catherine Smith to discuss who will take the Service for your departed loved one.

You may want to discuss a funeral soon after death, or perhaps a Memorial or Thanksgiving in church or elsewhere - later the same day, after a burial or cremation; or at later date (perhaps on an anniversary death or another poignant day).

Whichever vicar is taking the service always starts by exploring what sort of service you are looking for or perhaps more simply: "What would you like included?"

Most funerals include some form of personal recollection of the person who has died – either by a friend or member of the family – or in a tribute written by the Vicar, based on memories shared with him.

A funeral can be completely “non-religious” (with music, poems, readings, tributes.....and perhaps candle-lighting or other use of symbols) or it can include religious elements (Bible reading, prayers and hymns) but also include “secular music” and readings, etc; or it can be a more traditional-type Christian funeral service.