<div class="x_promoPodTabbedPanelsBL"><p>These newly authorized rites are intended to be a supplement to the burial services in the<em>Book of Common Prayer</em>, adding a rich variety of new material from many sources, including prayers for one who has died in military service, for one of unknown faith, for an unbeliever, and for a member of an inter-faith family. All of the major pastoral issues of the <em>Prayer Book</em> rites are addressed from the reception of the body to the consecration of the grave and the interment but with a freshness of language in new texts that the speak to contemporary sensibilities.</p><p><b>CONTENTS</b></p><p>Introduction with planning information<br>Two vigil rites before a funeral<br>Rites for the reception of the body<br>Collects, prayers and readings for the burial service, including a celebration of the Eucharist<br>Rites of committal<br>Burial of one who does not profess the Christian faith<br>Additional prayers<br>Committal at a crematory<br>A service of remembrance<br>Suggested hymns and songs</p></div>