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St. George’s is a portal between a life of hope on
earth and life eternal beyond this life. We hope that those who peruse this register will
see the evidence of life eternal contained herein.
16For God so loved
the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish
but may have eternal life. (John 3:16)
This list makes it
clear that no one knows the hour of his or her
death. You will find here people who lived
90 minutes through 97 years. See not the tragedy of a short life, but of great
thanksgiving for every life—we know that each person named herein lives
on today.
8Now concerning
death, the teaching is: When the decisive decree has gone out from the Most High that a
person shall die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, first
of all it adores the glory of the Most High. (2 Esdras 7:78)
We believe that our Christian community is surrounded by a “cloud of
saints”—those who have gone before us and borne witness to the meaning of life
and death, and who are with us still. It is good to know the names of our saints.
7For
whoever has died is freed from sin. 8But if we have died with
Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know
that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has
dominion over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin, once for
all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11So you also must
consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:7-11)
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