What is the Meaning & Definition of condolences

He is designated with the term of sympathy to the expression through which manifests itself to someone feeling that makes his grief and affliction, particularly linked to the physical loss of a loved one. I.e., when a person dies and one attends his wake or funeral, tend to express this kind of expression of accompaniment in her pain to their closest as relatives: his wife, their children, their brothers, their parents, among others.
Meanwhile, the most common time in which is expressed the condolences someone is immediately after the death of the loved, while his funeral occurs during his burial, as mentioned above, although it is also possible that condolences later expressed in time, if it is not he saw it was at that moment or in a completely different context , as it can be in the street, to meet the mourner at the office the following week when the person returned to work, attending the House of the Kinsman, of way to telephone, in case of not be able to attend personally, making it reach the family a handwritten card, leaving a note written in the book of condolence prepared by the contracted funeral services , among other alternatives.
The most common words that are expressed as condolences include: you accompany in sentiment, I deeply regret the death of your brother, your husband and your son, you don't know how much I have felt the loss of your MOM, I give you my deepest sympathy at this time so hard that you are going through.
And on the other hand, the sympathy is a traditional prayer in the Catholic doctrine that is usually prayed in the celebration of the mass.