Memorial Day 2014

Memorial Day Masses will be held at each of the five archdiocesan Catholic cemeteries on May 26 at 10:00 a.m. The celebrants are listed below. 
        
Calvary Cemetery-Archbishop George Lucas
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery-Rev. John Pietramale
Resurrection Cemetery-Archbishop Elden Francis Curtis
Saint Mary Magdalene Cemetery-Father Joseph Taphorn
Saint Mary Cemetery-Rev. William Safranek

In addition Fr. Steve will celebrate Mass in our church at 9:00 a.m.

Happy Memorial Day

Memorial Day Masses will be held at each of the five archdiocesan Catholic cemeteries on May 30 at 10:00 a.m. Archbishop George Lucas will be the celebrant at Calvary Cemetery and Archbishop Emeritus Elden Curtiss will celebrate Mass at Resurrection Cemetary. Those attending should bring a lawn chair along for seating.

On Memorial Day we will have just one Mass at 9:00 a.m. tomoat St. Columbkille.

Happy Club

Yesterday the Happy Club gathered at noon for their March meeting.

 In addition to their potluck meal...

 ... our own Deacon Bill Hill was on hand.

Deacon Hill is the Director of Catholic Cemeteries. What he wanted to emphasize is the importance of planning what you want ahead of time. What is planned isn't nearly as important as the fact that something is planned so that surviving family members have less questions and can mourn.

Lance Zimmerman told of a man who had been a carpenter. When he died the family assumed he wanted a wood casket. But in his instructions he said he wanted a metalic blue casket to represent his service in WWII. So making plans is a gift for the family who don't have to wonder what they would have wanted.

Fr. Damian was able to get his questions answered yesterday, but Catholic Cemetaries will be at all of the Masses April 21-22 to make information available to anyone else with questions.

The Happy Club meets the first Monday of every month. They eat at 11:30 and follow that with either a program or Bingo.

Congratulations Deacon Hill

Deacon Bill Hill has been named Director of Catholic Cemeteries.

On Thursday Deacon Hill will officially retire from the Human Resources Department at Creighton University. There are five Catholic Cemeteries in Omaha which the staff of about 26 maintains. They help families who are at need of burial as well as assisting those who want to plan for their funeral sometime in the future.

Deacon Hill said, "It's a challenge, but every endeavor worth doing is."

Congratulations!