The Catholic cemetery is the final resting place for the members of our Faith Community on our Journey to God. It is the gate of heaven.Burial in the consecrated ground of the Catholic cemetery allows you to share your faith values with future generations of your family. This legacy of faith is your gift to them. Catholic cemeteries are signs of hope that are places of prayer. They witness our faith in the Lord Jesus and the hope we share in his resurrection.

 

. . . we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
      She must have heard those words a thousand times at Mass over the years and hadn’t given them a second thought.  But now they leap out at her from the inscription on this gravestone as she walks through the cemetery.
      She has always liked reading the epitaphs—some pithy, some pious—that distilled a person’s life down to a line or two. “At rest in the Lord” was 82 when she died. “Beloved husband and father” was 67 and his “beloved wife” had no end date yet on their dual marker. “In joyful hope” entered this particular segment of the communion of saints when he was only 13.
      He was her son.
Read the rest of the story here

We remember and give thanks when we pray for our beloved dead. Archbishop Brunett invites us to celebrate and pray in a special way with Mass at the Archdiocesan Catholic Cemeteries on the Feast of “All Saints/All Souls”, Saturday, November 1, 2008.
Click here to learn about the locations and times of Mass on this special feast.

Everyone is encouraged to pilgrimage to the Catholic cemetery on Sunday, November 2, 2008, All Souls Day.  Additional information is available in:
English | Spanish | Vietnamese | Korean