Resurrection Catholic Cemetery

06/12/2025

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06/05/2025

You are invited to join us for Mass on June 20th at 10am in the cemetery chapel.

05/22/2025

Why do things cost so much at the cemetery?

The main reason burial is so expensive is that the cemetery is committing to maintaining your grave until Jesus returns. If that happens tomorrow, the expense won’t matter that much. If it happens in 10,000 years, you’ll have gotten the best deal ever on lawn mowing.

That said, some Catholic cemeteries offer different options at different price points. And some cemeteries are able to offer need-based assistance. Sometimes those who have purchased graves decide to be buried elsewhere, and return them to the cemetery for use by the indigent. This is a beautiful way of participating in the corporal work of mercy of burying the dead.

Bigger picture, if American cemeteries adopted the European model of term graves, where you don’t have a permanent resting place but get maybe 50 years before the cemetery re-sells your grave, costs could be significantly reduced. And some solution like that will be needed eventually. Otherwise, in 200,000 years, the earth will be totally covered with graves with no room for farmland.

Have a question for the Director of Cemeteries? Send it to Damian.lenshek@madisondiocese.org and your question may be featured in the next installment of Down to Earth.

05/20/2025

02/03/2025

May I bury two people’s remains in one grave?

In short: Often the answer is “yes”, but each cemetery has its own rules on this.

Each burial requires an easement, a burial right. When you “purchase a grave” you are not buying real estate, you are buying permission to bury one person in a certain spot. To bury another person in that same spot requires a “second right of burial.” Some Catholic cemeteries offer second rights at a lower cost than the first right. In some Catholic cemeteries in our diocese, the policy is that a grave may have a full body burial first, and up to two cremation burials after. Other cemeteries allow two full-body burials in one grave as long as the arrangement is made ahead of time.
If you are making your cemetery arrangements and think you might want to purchase a second right of burial, you should discuss that with your Catholic cemetery representative.

Have a question for the Director of Cemeteries? Send it to Damian.lenshek@madisondiocese.org and your question may be featured in the next installment of Down to Earth.

01/09/2025

Mark your calendar and join us on 3rd Fridays of each month at 10am to pray for those buried in our cemeteries. 2705 Regent Street. The chapel is directly ahead as you enter from Regent Street. Mass times are also posted here: https://madisondiocese.org/cemeteries

11/27/2024

11/08/2024

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11/07/2024

11/05/2024

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