A Framework for a Memorial Event

Digital download: Former Marie Curie Hospice Chaplain Tom Gordon offers a structure and material for a memorial event which allows people, in a corporate setting, to remember loved ones, to have their loss recognised, and to find that their sorrow and their journey of bereavement has echoes of other people’s experiences. Can be adapted for a religious or a non-religious context.

Contents include:
Discussion of the event:
Purpose
Content and style
Religious or not?
Music
Readings
A memorial action
Following the event

The framework (with words for a leader, readings for two readers and suggestions for music):
1. Introduction
2. The rightness of grieving
3. Beginning to move forward
4. It's good to share and to remember (including space for an act of remembrance)
5. Looking to the future

20 pages