Please reach out to the church office at 512-476-3523 to discuss your own future plans for your funeral or to inquire about scheduling a funeral with the clergy of Good Shepherd.
Making decisions in the midst of grief is quite challenging, and when a loved one dies, there are so many decisions to make facing those who love and care for you. One of the best ways to care for your family and loved ones is to make your plans and share them with your family before the time comes for them to make those decisions for you. Those details include:
The columbarium and garth at Good Shepherd’s Windsor campus are sacred spaces. That provide a place for interment and for parishioners to remember and honor those they have loved. To learn more about the columbarium options, pricing, guidelines, and application, please click here.
Our Parish Care Committee works hard to host receptions following the services of our parishioners when appropriate and planned with the clergy. Please discuss this option with the clergy when you are planning a funeral service at Good Shepherd.
The Liturgy for the Dead (the funeral service in the Episcopal tradition) is an Easter liturgy. It finds all its meaning in the resurrection. Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we too, shall be raised.
The liturgy, therefore, is characterized by joy, in the certainty that “neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, not height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
This joy, however, does not make human grief unchristian. The very love we have for each other in Christ brings deep sorrow when we are parted by death. Jesus himself wept at the grave of his friend. So, while we rejoice that one we love has entered into the nearer presence of our Lord, we sorrow in sympathy with those who mourn.
—Book of Common Prayer, pg. 507
