Solt Lake – Solt Lake City (AP) – A funeral ceremony will be held on Tuesday in the Solt Lake City for a messenger M Nelson, the charismatic emotional who supervised a great boom in building temples as president of the Church of Jesus Christ for the last days.
Nelson led even faith His death In late September at the age of 101.
The funeral is expected to attract thousands of mourners to the church’s conference center in Temple Square. The church spokesman, Dog Andersen, said that about 600 members of the Nelson family are expected to attend, along with 20,000 people who quickly bought the tickets that the church offered online within 20 minutes.
The service will be so Wide broadcasting On the church site and other Internet platforms.
Andersen said that Nelson’s funeral will be free from the rituals of the official church. He said that it will resemble a service of worship with prayers, hymns and hadiths and will focus on Nelson’s life and his goal.
Andersen said that both sides of Nelson’s legacy – as a spiritual leader for four decades and as a heart surgeon that saved lives – will be celebrated during service.
Nelson’s body will mostly wear the white temple clothes, the festive clothes worn by adult members. The anniversary, open to the last days and non -organs, will be conducted by a secular priest. A year was held on Monday at the Conference Center, and was attended by about 18,560 people, according to Andersen.
He said that the funerals of the church are usually “characterized by an atmosphere of hope and peace.”
He added: “They generally do not bear the burdens of sadness and unbearable despair that we often see in other funerals.” “This is especially true in this case with a life exceeding 101 years.”
Andersen said that the funeral of Nelson will also include “honest greeting and comfortable music” performed by the famous temple choir.
It will include a hymn written It was first published In the official bulletin of the Church and was performed at General Conferences in October 2018 and April 2022. One of the musicians described the song as a special and sacred representation of the relationship between God and the believers.
Nelson family members are likely to choose the songs and other hymns that will be performed at the funeral.
While the funeral will be public, the burial will be special with the family. Andersen said that the burial ceremony will be held in the Pioneer Cemetery, where Brigham Young and many other religion pioneers were buried.
Kathleen Felk, a former professor of Mormon Studies at the University of Virginia, said that the family plays an important role in faith, not only in this life, but also in the afterlife.
Felk said that once the corpse is accompanied to the grave site, those who are not from the family will leave and a male family member – usually the eldest son – is allocating the grave.
In the church, the seals of the Temple, which is the union of a man, a woman and their children forever, is to link the family as a unit that crosses from this life to the next life. The seal should be done in the structure by a man with a priesthood.
She said: “The belief is that (Nelson) will join the hereafter to the family members who died before.” “You move from the family here on the ground to the family in the sky, and you live together in eternity.”
It is expected that the new church president – which the members consider a prophet – will be named after the funeral of Nelson.
Announcing his successor, Dalin E. OxIt is largely a formal procedure because the church has A hierarchical sequence of driving well Which helps ensure smooth delivery and prevent pressure internally or publicly.
In his first major speech since Nelson’s death, the members of the members encouraged Sunday during the church meeting, which is held twice annually General Conference For marriage and having children. The 93 -year -old former Supreme Court judge stressed the importance of the family, with recognition that not all families seem similar.
In a departure from his typical sermons, which often address the mind than emotion, Oaks shared an emotional story about the day his grandfather told him when he was seven years old with the death of his father. He went on to describe the value of his upbringing at the hands of a single mother and others who assumed the patriarchal roles for him and his brothers.
Oaks also said on Sunday that faith “will slow down the announcement New temples – The first major difference from Nelson’s presidency.
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