PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

On obituaries, ossuaries, and the end of our illusions “All flesh is grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls.” — First Epistle of Peter 1:24 There is something almost unbearable about an obituary if you linger over it long enough. A human life, decades of breath, struggle, love, compromise, hidden sacrifice, is gathered up and reduced to a few paragraphs. A name. A date. A list of survivors. A handful of accomplishments. Perh