Please be assured of the prayers and concern of our parish for you and your family during the loss of a loved one and through your grief. To plan funeral arrangements, you will first want to contact the funeral home. The funeral director will then contact our parish office to schedule the Mass of Christian Burial. Our parish Funeral Planning Booklet has been prepared to assist you and your family in planning the Mass. We hope that by selecting your own readings and music, you and your family might share more fully in the liturgy, and express your abiding love and care for the deceased. Along with the booklet is our Liturgy Planning Form. The completed form, along with 5-7 key personal things that stand out about your loved one, are requested at least 2-3 days in advance of the funeral so the priest can prepare his homily. Click here and scroll down to the Bereavement Ministry for links to our booklet and the form.
“At the death of a Christian, whose life of faith was begun in the waters of baptism and strengthened at the Eucharistic table, the Church intercedes on behalf of the deceased because of its confident belief that death is not the end nor does it break the bonds forged in life. The Church also ministers to the sorrowing and consoles them in the funeral rites with the comforting word of God
and the sacrament of the Eucharist”
~ Order of Christian Funerals, #4