Occasionally do something to celebrate the lives of friends who have died, perhaps on the anniversaries of their deaths. Go out to dinner in a restaurant that you used to frequent together, rent a video or a movie that the friend enjoyed, read the friends' favorite poets or sing their favorite songs, visit a place you used to go to together. Make these joyous occasions, remembering the fun and good times you had. Thank them for having been part of your life, and express your desire to be reunited with them in the next life.
— Tom Cowan in The Way of the Saints