As is now a ‘tradition’ in our family, we all met up at the cemetery to ‘visit with’ our loved ones who have passed away– Aunty Beryl and Uncle Jewel. There was Aunt Joan, Dulcie, Aunt Lotus, Kumar, so many people. During the Mass we remembered the others whose graves we couldn’t visit, our Grandparents and Uncle Hillary in Nuwara Eliya and Aunty Hope in Mt Lavinia.
Ravi and his family clustered around Uncle Jewel’s grave placing flowers and candles not only at his graveside but on all the surrounding graves too – “Dadda’s friends” he said in his typical Ravi manner.
After Mass, with the rains still holding off, we wandered into the dusk to light candles at the gravesides. The cemetery looked peaceful and beautiful with candles casting loving glows upon the graves. Sunethra and Dad both had loads of candles left over, so we lit a few candles at graves where no-one seemed to have visited. No flowers lay upon some graves, where the grass grew high, indicating neglect or the lack of anyone to care for them.
Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.
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