The Funeral of

Micah Salazar

Dear Redeemer Family,

As many of you heard at our worship services yesterday, our parish is grieving the sudden and unexpected death of sixteen month-old Micah Salazar, son of Isaiah and Eliza Salazar, who passed away in his sleep between Saturday and Sunday.

READ MICAH’S OBITUARY HERE

All of you are invited, if you are able, to participate in the funeral service this week:

Thursday, November 12
12:00-1:15 p.m.
2715 Grove Ave.
Richmond, VA 23220
Reception to follow in the basement.

Attire: While by no means required, please consider wearing black or dark gray clothing (in the same spirit as a Good Friday service) that we might mourn together as a church family.

Graveside: The graveside burial service will be private, only for immediate family.

WAYS TO HELP

  • Register here to volunteer to help with the logistics of the funeral service and reception.

  • Click here to make a donation to help the Salazar family cover the costs of the funeral and burial.

  • There will be more opportunities to care for the Salazar family in the weeks and months ahead, and we will communicate those as soon as we can.

WAYS TO PRAY

In times of crisis and pain like this, so many of us want to do something to help, but we are often unsure what to do. It is vital that we remember that prayer really is doing something. So I encourage you, when your heart aches for the Salazars, to fall to your knees, open the scriptures or your Book of Common Prayer (I recommend the Vigil service on p.243), and pray for their family. You might even consider going on a prayer walk; sometimes moving our bodies while we pray can help us with our grief. You might also consider gathering with your Small Group or a group of friends here in the parish to pray together.

Friends, this is our first death within the parish, and it is not what any of us expected. These are the times when it is vital that we draw close to the Lord and to each other as a church family. These are the days when we are faced with both the urgency and weightiness of the Gospel. As our Lord Jesus said,

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Yes, we believe this.

Come on Thursday if you are able. If not, pause at noon that day and pray for us from afar.

In the Father’s love,

The Rev. Dan Marotta