Acknowledge Card No. 1
Deceased Name
Rest in Peace
Deceased Name loving wife Name, children Name and Name
Thank you most sincerely for your kind expression of sympathy in their
recent bereavement.
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass has
been offered for your intentions.
Acknowledge Card No. 2
The family of the late
Deceased Name
Thank you most sincerely for your kind expression of sympathy in their recent bereavement.
Your words of comfort guided and sustained us in our sorrow.
We will always cherish your kindness and remember you in our thoughts and prayers.
Acknowledge Card No. 3
The Loving Wife and family of the late
Deceased Name
Thank you most sincerely for your kind expression of sympathy in their recent bereavement.
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass has been offered for your intentions.
Acknowledge Card No. 4
Deceased Name
Rest in Peace
We wish to express our sincere thanks for the kindness extended to us during our recent bereavement.
Your expressions of sympathy have been a great source of comfort and will always be remembered with great gratitude.
Optional Verse 1 - for Left Hand Side
For the kindly thought you had in offering your sympathy in our loss, For approaching us, and by just being there, it helped, even a little, to ease this cross. Even the offer of a shoulder to cry on is a consolation in times of sorrow and grief Or the heartfelt sympathy in your handclasp can bring a measure of warm gratitude and relief. Perhaps your sympathy was wordless and only showed in your eyes because you too know the grief that is felt when a loved one dies.
Optional Verse 2 - for Left Hand Side
I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun
of happy memories that I leave when life is done.
Optional Verse 3 - for Left Hand Side
Perhaps you sent a lovely card, Or sat quietly in a chair,
Perhaps you sent a funeral spray, If so, we saw it there,
Perhaps you spoke the kindest words, As any friend could say,
Perhaps you were not there at all, Just thought of us that day,
Whatever you did to console our hearts,
We thank you so very much, whatever the part.
Optional Verse 4 - for Left Hand Side
You can shed tears that he is gone
Or you can smile because he has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that he will come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all that he has left
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see him
Or you can be full of the love that you shared
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday
You can remember him and only that he is gone
Or you can cherish his memory and let it live on
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back
Or you can do what he would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.