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Details of the funeral service for Amfortas
Our fellow blogger’s son has provided this below, this Friday, and I had to decide whether to run it publicly here or via email to those I know who knew him and read this blog. Notes on that decision and about other aspects are below this posted notice.
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The stream will go live some time shortly before the commencement of the service at 11:00am on Monday, 12th January 2026.
Please note the link will activate around 30 minutes prior to allow our checks to be done. The service itself will not begin until 11:00am, Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time.
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Notes
1. Being unfamiliar with organising such things, the procedure, the proprieties, the etiquette so to speak, I’m not even sure I should be posting this but I reason that as it’s been posted downunder, plus there are many who might wish to attend, some who have spoken to me about it … well here it is.
2. Amfortas’s blog was HERE. You can familiarise yourself with “Amfy” by simply reading it and you might or might not agree with some or all his points of view. As an old serviceman, RAAF was his service, that will no doubt come out at the funeral.
3. Amfy was also a Catholic Knight, strongly anti-Freemasonry in the Church, he was also a fierce Pro-Life man. On other issues, he might have differed from me, certainly in my non-denominational stance on the faith … that was not the point, to my mind. We agreed on sufficient to have become friends at a geographical distance.
4. That point of how close we were came up when his son asked me and it was difficult to explain. Just how close are bloggers or bloggers and readers? My contention is … very close … and his recent years and months in particular saw him value my correspondence and me his. I feel the same for our patrons at nourishing unherdables in a broader sense. One or two have become very close indeed.
5. Details of Chris’s life will emerge, no doubt, at the service. As I stated, hinted, I’m inept at this deceasing business, I avoid it afap and yet we really should remember our former friends and colleagues, not just out of duty but out of bonds.
6. Aus EST is currently 11 hours ahead of GMT. Thus, the boadcast checks will start at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, our time, and the service would commence at midnight this coming Sunday, our time.
7. This will be the sole notice from this blogpage but I’ll drop this post’s url in different places this weekend. Prayers for Amfortas and family at this time.