A funeral liturgy for the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman will occur today at Saint Ignatius Church, a Jesuit community, in New York City. RIP.
The Presider will be Rev. James Martin, S.J. -- Fr. Martin will also be the main presenter at both the ALI 2014 and the Catholic Men's Conference, on March 21-22, in the Archdiocese of Louisville KY. He is pictured below on the left, at a rehearsal with Hoffman during the filming of the Oscar-winning film "Doubt."
Broadway marquees went dark for a minute Wednesday night in honor of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died this week at 46, apparently of a heroin overdose. At the same time, newspaper accounts have been exploring the dark side of drug addiction and its terrible toll on Hoffman.
And flowers are piling up in front of the apartment in the West Village neighborhood where Hoffman was a regular, another New Yorker going about life.
But amid these expected secular reckonings with celebrity tragedy is an unusually traditional religious ritual — a Catholic funeral for Hoffman set for Friday at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Church sources say up to 300 people will attend the private Mass, many of them boldface names as well as friends and family and the many theater and film friends Hoffman made during his sterling career.
So why a Catholic service? And why there?
Read the rest here:
http://davidgibson.religionnews.com/2014/02/06/philip-seymour-hoffman-exits-catholic-stage/
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