After reading your past columns on pre-planning and attending a funeral with my husband and nineteen year old son, who lost his best friend to the mean streets of Cleveland, my husband and I did something we thought we’d never do.

The art of oration may be one of the most underrated arts in the United States today and one of the most under appreciated as well because most of our verbal information arrives through the medium of radio or television.

Please if you want to keep up with what I’ve been talking about the last three weeks call the Call & Post and order your subscription to newspaper and read Bishop Speaks. If you can’t do that, find a Call & Post at the nearest store and catch up to this point where I’m at.

St. Agnes-Our Lady of Fatima Church will have their Lenten Fish Fry including a Touch of Jazz on Friday (4/8/2011) from 4 to 8 p.m. The church is located at St. Agnes Our Lady of Fatima (Schubert Hall), 6800 Lexington Avenue. Tilapia or Catfish dinners. Dine in or take out. For more information call (216) 391-1655.

Bishop Charles Edward Blake Sr. serves as the presiding bishop and chief apostle of the Church of God in Christ, Inc., a 6 million-memberPentecostal-Holiness denomination. On March 21, 2007, he became the presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, (COGIC) Inc., as a result of Presiding Bishop Gilbert E. Patterson’s untimely death.

If you didn’t read Part I last week, I suggest you do so and you’ll better understand the importance of Part II.

I said it last week and I’m saying it again that everybody seems to want to go to heaven, but, in reality, very few even prepare for it in the physical sense after the spirit leaves the body.