As Catholic Cemetery Management Workers in the Diocese, we are called to share in Christ's mission to proclaim the Reign of God in Word, Sacrament, and Service.
This call is particularly unique in the service we offer to our Catholic Communities: to bury their dead with dignity and grace, to care for the families at their time of grief, and to beautify the places where their loved ones' physical remains are buried.
Though the time of death is traumatic, an occasion of considerable emotion and financial strain, it is always and primarily a moment of religious significance. Death begins the culmination of our earthly pilgrimage and our passage to eternity.
We must spread the word that the final expression of our faith as Catholics is the blessed and sacred burial in a Catholic cemetery. We must proclaim the sacred right, privilege, and loving duty of every Catholic to choose such a burial.
"The Church, who as Mother, has borne the Christian sacramentally in her womb during his earthly pilgrimage, accompanies him at his journey's end, in order to surrender him 'into the Father's hands.' She offers to the Father, in Christ, the child of his grace, and she commits to this earth, in hope, the seed of the body that will rise in glory. This offering is fully celebrated in the Eucharistic Sacrifice." Catechism of the Catholic Church 1683
Cemetery Commission:
Father Ted Dudzinski, V.G., J.C.L., Moderator of the Curia Pastorate Administrator
Father Faker - Parochial Vicar
Melissa Van Ness - Director of Operations
Paul Scheetz - St. Ann, Kewanna
Allan Mitchell - St. Joseph, Pulaski
Brenda Gilsinger - St. Joseph, Pulaski
Larry Brady - St. Joseph, Pulaski
Mary Eldridge - St. Peter, Winamac
Rex Allman - St. Peter, Winamac
Ron Loehmer - St. Peter, Winamac
Tom Murray - St. Peter, Winamac
We are the people of God uniting in the heart of Jesus Christ. We join the whole Church in proclaiming the Gospel in the Word, Sacrament and Charity for the salvation of all people.