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A Planning Guide To Bury or Inurn
Cremated Remain
Cremation is Not the End …
… It is Preparation for Memorialization
Each year on Memorial Day in the United States and
Remembrance Day in Canada, thousands of individuals travel to local
cemeteries and memorial parks to pay their respects to departed family
members and friends. This once-a-year event, originally established to
honor our war dead, signals the time for taking plants to gravesites,
placing flowers in vases, and meditating in churches and chapels.
Visits to final resting places, however, are not limited to just
this one day. Throughout
the year people remember those who are no longer with them by
going to the areas where special memorials have been established.
Remembering those who have died is not a modern-day
phenomenon. Thousands of years
ago when the funeral pyre and the "sacred
flame" were used, survivors fashioned beautiful urns to hold the
cherished remains from what they termed the "purifying fire."
Today, cremation has advanced from the crude funeral
pyre to modern scientific methods. It
is only in the handling of those "cherished
remains" that we link up with the past.
We recognize as did those long-ago individuals the
importance of memorialization.
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Cremation Committal Services when arranged by families
Catholic Cemeteries encourages cremation burial to
follow the same process as a funeral with a casket. Use of a funeral
director’s services, funeral mass at the parish, and a blessing at
the grave-side, crypt or cremation niche is recommended and encouraged.
However, cremation affords families the occasion to
handle burial arrangements without the assistance of a funeral director.
For these arrangements, the following procedures and guidelines are
recommended for your review.
Before purchasing a cremation urn, families should
review the cemetery’s rules and regulations regarding the
appropriateness of the container and the maximum permitted urn size for
the intended burial space.
Glass front cremation niches have additional
regulations concerning the overall characteristics of urn type,
composition, inscription, epitaphs, and related concerns
over the urn to be displayed.
Urns must be smaller than the vault to fit. For best fit in our
cemetery urn vault
(13 x 8 x 10) an urn should not exceed 12 ½ ” x 6 ”
x 7 ½”.
Please review the printed rules for restrictions in cremation
niches.
Families should appoint one member as a spokesperson
to set up a 20 to 30 minute telephone call to the cemetery office
(generally one week before the intended burial date).
Cremated remains shouldnever be mailed to the
cemetery office.
Families completing arrangements without a funeral
director are REQUIRED TO PRESENT IN PERSON OR FAX all documents to the cemetery office 48 hours before the
committal service.
Your committal service will not be scheduled unless
this step is completed.
On the date of the committal service family members
may wish to review and prepare for the following items:
Additional concerns:
Late fees apply at the time of arrival at the
cemetery office. Families should be prepared to pay in full these
charges.
Incidental fees (for example an opening affidavit
fee when the original certificate is not presented) must also be paid in
full at the cemetery office before the committal service.
Cancellation fees apply for canceling a scheduled
committal service.
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