WATER SERVICE IS BACK ON AT THE CEMETERY!

Please note the office hours for Our Lady during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. 

• Office will be closed on Monday, Memorial Day, May 26, 2025.

Regular office hours will resume Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The only appointments that will be scheduled during the days listed above will be for at-need situations. Since priests, deacons and pastors normally have Mondays off, scheduling a service during this time may not be achievable.

If circumstances require IMMEDIATE assistance, please call the cemetery cell phone at 737-444-5234. Someone will get back with you as soon as possible.

REMINDER ... Cemetery Hours

Our Lady will have the normal opening and closing hours for the cemetery during the Memorial Day weekend. The cemetery will continue to open at Dawn and close at Dusk.

Photos below show plots that ARE IN compliance with Our Lady's

Rules & Regulations.

Photos below show plots that ARE NOT IN compliance with Our Lady's

Rules & Regulations.

A BEAUTIFUL VISION

Your loved one is resting in a place of natural beauty.

Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery & Prayer Garden was designed using the European model. Nick and Ellen Brumder heard the calling and conceived this dream in 2004, the year of the rosary. Pope John Paul II sent his blessing in a letter. This cemetery would be “natural” – reflecting the seasons of the year; each season showing its natural beauty: the dryness in Winter, the new beginnings of Spring, the brightness of Summer and the changing in the Fall. This is our life’s cycle too.

Hence, we’re asking each family, their relatives, and friends to comply with the following. As a benefit, our grounds can be better maintained and when opening/closing graves there will be less damage to adjacent gravesites.

• NO more than TWO ITEMS per burial plot
• NO Boarders: this includes tile, rocks, wood, metal, any type of plastic or concrete. Boarders are allowed in the Forest Garden since this area is never mowed.
• NO Rocks
• NO Solar Lights
• NO Candles
• NO Yard Art (spinning birds, wind catchers, garden globes, etc.)
• NO Shepherd Hooks of ANY size
• NO Windchimes
• NO Hanging Baskets
• NO Astroturf
• NO Mulch higher than 2-4 inches
• NO Planting of Trees or Miniature Fir Trees (Exception: Small live fir trees are allowed in containers during the month of December for the Christmas season. These items are removed after the Epiphany on January 6.)
• NO Shrubbery shall extend beyond the boundaries of a family's space(s)
• NO Plastic of any kind, this includes artificial flowers
• NO Toys, gloves, balls, caps, shoes, boots, clothing
• NO Glass Vases** or glass items of any kind
• NO Beer Cans, Soda Bottles, Champagne/Liquor/Wine Bottles
• NO Metal of any kind including wire baskets around plants
• NO Silk Flowers
• NO Wreaths or Wreath Stands (Exceptions: 1. Wreaths and stands are allowed for funeral services and are removed once the arrangements have wilted. 2. Christmas wreaths are allowed in December and removed after the Epiphany on January 6. Easter wreaths will be removed one week after Easter Sunday.)

** An OLLA, a terra cotta ground pot which holds water that slowly seeps into the ground is the BEST way to maintain plantings and flowers. Visit the following for online purchases: https://growoya.com  https://www.lehmans.com https://territorialseed.com https://www.amazon.com https://drippingspringsollas.com

BIRTHDAYS

We invite you to celebrate your loved one’s birthday ON the day of his/her birth. Please use our picnic area located near the pond in the tree area behind the KIOSK Information Board if food is involved. Happy Birthday helium balloons are permitted but will be removed once they become deflated. 

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago was elected the 267th pope on May 8, 2025, taking the name Pope Leo XIV

May 8, 2025 … First words spoken by newly elected Pope Leo XIV.

"Peace be with you," were Pope Leo's first words to the crowd.

"My dear brothers and sisters, this is the first greeting of the risen Christ, the good shepherd who gave his life for God's flock," he said, praying that Christ's peace would enter people's hearts, their families and "the whole earth."

The peace of the risen Lord, he said, is "a peace that is unarmed and disarming."

Signaling strong continuity with the papacy of Pope Francis, Pope Leo told the crowd that God "loves all of us unconditionally" and that the church must be open to everyone.

"We are all in God's hands," he said, so "without fear, united, hand in hand with God and with each other, let us go forward."

He thanked the cardinals who elected him, apparently on the fourth ballot of the conclave, "to be the successor of Peter and to walk with you as a united church always seeking peace, justice" and together being missionary disciples of Christ.

Telling the crowd that he was an Augustinian, he quoted St. Augustine, who said, "With you I am a Christian and for you a bishop."

"Together we must try to be a missionary church, a church that builds bridges and always dialogues, that is always open to receiving everyone like this square with its arms open to everyone, everyone in need," he said.



The new bishop of Rome told the people of his diocese and of the whole Catholic Church, "We want to be a synodal church, a church that journeys, a church that seeks peace always, that always seeks charity, that wants to be close to people, especially those who are suffering."

After asking the crowd to recite the Hail Mary with him, Pope Leo gave his first solemn blessing.

GOD BLESS POPE LEO XIV