Attended my third funeral since coming to Sri Lanka. My 91 year old landlord passed away after having a 3rd stroke. Oddly enough, all three funerals have been Christian. The last was Catholic and presided over by no less than the Bishop of Kandy. Also oddly, it is almost 5 years to the day that I attended the funeral of my dear friend Nirmala, with whom I was meant to stay upon my arrival.
As is the Sri Lankan custom, regardless of your religion, the body was brought to the house and laid out in the living room. Thankfully, that only went on for one day and one night. A requiem mass was held at the Kandy cemetery. I had forgotten how much bobbing up and down goes on at a Catholic mass. The nice part was that the chapel was full not only of Catholics, but Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus. Goes to show that we really can get along as humans if we want to.
RIP Hu Fernando.
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