November Prayer Booklet

In the month of November, the Church urges her children to pray for the dead. This booklet contains a prayer for each day of November – a thoughtful gift for… Read More

Order for Visiting a Cemetery

This order is a solemn commemoration of the departed whose bodies lie in a cemetery. It may be used on All Souls Day, Memorial Day, on the anniversary of the death or burial of a particular deceased person, or when a gravestone or cemetery monument is erected. The service may also be adopted for use by individuals when they visit the grave of a relative or friend.

Bulletin Insert #1 (sunset)

This 8.5″ x 11″ flyer can be edited with specific details (when, where, time) informing your parishioners of upcoming presentations discussing proper Catholic burial information. Can be placed within each church bulletin or made available in the narthex.

Bulletin Insert #2 (blue)

This 8.5″ x 11″ flyer can be edited with specific details (when, where, time) informing your parishioners of upcoming presentations discussing proper Catholic burial information. Can be placed within each church bulletin or made available in the narthex.

Bulletin ‘Save the Date’ notice (sunset)

This 3″ x 5″ ‘Save the Date’ notice can be placed and printed in your bulletin informing your parishioners of upcoming presentations discussing proper Catholic burial information.

Bulletin ‘Save the Date’ notice (blue)

This 3.5″ x 5″ ‘Save the Date’ notice can be placed and printed in your bulletin informing your parishioners of upcoming presentations discussing proper Catholic burial information.

Lesson Planning for Pre-K through 1st Grade

This lesson reinforces the Good News that Jesus came to save us and raise us to eternal life.

Lesson Planning for 2nd Grade

This lesson reaffirms and encourages the practice of praying for the dead. It teaches the special ways that we pray for the dead in the funeral liturgy and at each Mass during the prayers of the faithful

Lesson Planning for 3rd Grade

This lesson teaches students about the central aspects of the Catholic burial rite and how it both honors the deceased and offers consolation to the family.

Lesson Planning for 4th – 6th Grade

This lesson teaches students how families and the Christian community participate in the corporal works of mercy when they bury/inter the dead.

Lesson Planning for 7th – 8th Grade

Purpose: This lesson relates the students’ own suffering and redemption to Christ’s Paschal Mystery. It seeks to connect in a meaningful way the pattern of death and resurrection to the… Read More

Lesson Planning for 9th – 12th Grade

To help young men and women in high school understand the traditions of the Catholic funeral.