For any questions or information on plots, crypts or niches, please call the cemetery office at (845) 452-8580.  Email: [email protected]

A Catholic cemetery is a sacred and holy place joined to our Catholic faith.  It is a place of prayer that reminds us of our final destination: eternal union with God in heaven, "the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness". (CCC, no. 1024)

By burying the bodies of the faithful, the Church confirms her faith in the resurrection of the body, and intends to show the great dignity of the human body as an integral part of the human person whose body forms part of their identity.  She cannot, therefore, condone attitudes or permit rites that involve erroneous ideas about death, such as considering death as the definitive annihilation of the person, or the moment of fusion with Mother Nature or the universe, or as a stage in the cycle of regeneration, or as the definitive liberation from the "prison" of the body.  Furthermore, burial in a cemetery or another sacred place adequately corresponds to the piety and respect owned to the bodies of the faithful departed who through Baptism have become temples of the Holy Spirit and in which "as instruments and vessels the Spirit has carried out so many good works".  (CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH)

MYTH: When one "buys a lot" in the cemetery, they own the land and can do with it what they wish.

TRUTH: One does not "buy a plot", one purchases burial rights.  Much like you would buy mineral rights, air rights, or water rights, our Catholic cemeteries sell burial rights, which provide a license and easement for a specific number of burials (traditional or cremation) in a specific location within the cemetery.  The easement also provides for a memorial to be erected in accordance with cemetery regulations and for perpetual care to maintain the lot in perpetuity.  By selling burial rights rather than land there is no question of taxable property, we are assured the property will always remain a cemetery and it allows the management to set reasonable rules and regulations to assure proper maintenance of the of the cemetery can be performed.

For any questions or information on plots, crypts or niches, please call the cemetery office at (845) 452-8580 Extension #2