Oblational
The meaning of “oblational” is connected to “offering.” As is the case in all services of worship, an offering is received at a funeral, but here the offering is usually not about money. What do people bring to a funeral to offer God? Their grief, of course, and their memories. Sometimes they bring regret and guilt, perhaps simply over a word they failed to speak, a smile they did not smile. They may bring anger, a need to shake the fist at God. And they bring the deceased, the body, actual or remembered, of the one who has died; and one purpose of a good funeral is to enable people to give the deceased to God and, thereby, to give them up, to let them go. People bring many things to a funeral to offer to God. As Hoon says,
