Pass through the veil

Another phrase rooted in Grandma Moser's funeral.

(It is helpful for history sake to remind readers that the funeral took place during what church historians refer to as "The Toronto Renewal," a time in which churches across the world were experiencing powerful and varied phenomena of the Holy Spirit. In Champaign, we were regularly visited with fits of uncontrollable laughter. It just so happened that at Grandma's funeral, Tim, Ben, and perhaps Dianne were the unwitting recipients of the Holy Spirit's falling in this manner, and laughed uncontrollably all the way through her funeral. Needless to say, at that moment, everything was funny.)

John, whose wife is Nelda, prayed before dinner. While standing before a closed curtain screening the lunchroom, John said: "Just as Marie has passed through the veil into heaven, so we must now pass through the curtain to eat..."