The Resurrection Garden offers the parishioners of Prince of Peace Catholic Community and their immediate family a beautiful setting for the perpetual care of their cremated remains on church grounds, close to the Community and surviving family. The garden is a place of reverence and solitude.
The columbarium contains niches for urns suitable for the cremated remains and each niche will be able to contain two urns. On special occasions, liturgies will be celebrated in memory of those parishioners who have departed. The full liturgy of the funeral Mass with a community procession to the adjacent Resurrection Garden concludes the rite with a committal service at the columbarium as a sign that even in death our members remain with us. Death may alter our relationship with the Community, but it does not end.
Visiting Our Loved Ones
As we leave Sunday Mass, we can take a moment to visit our loved one in the Resurrection Garden. The Garden will be well maintained and will provide a prayerful environment for meditation and reflection.
On All Souls Day
On this day, we will gather for a special Mass remembering all those who are interred in the columbarium in the Resurrection Garden. Thus continuing the Church's teaching of the Communion of the Saints and our ultimate unity in Christ around the Table of the Lord.
About Cremation
The Church, by its recognition of cremation, has opened great possibilities for parish communities to again provide perpetual care of its members within its community environs. The Church has extended its liturgies and rites to embrace the family and community needs of the members who choose cremation.
Insisting on the full respect and dignity afforded the human body, in death as in life; the Church approves the perpetual care of the cremated remains in columbaria. However, it continues to discourage the scattering, division or storage of cremated remains.