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| Cemetery Mission Statement - Diocese of Metuchen "Catholic cemeteries are places consecrated and set apart and, with consecrated churches, constitute the "sacred space" which the Church designates and reserves in this world exclusivity for the worship of God and celebration of His mysteries. Unlike other burial grounds, they reflect the deep faith of Catholic-Christians in the intimate connection between the death of the believer and the death of the Lord, support our convictions that the bodies of the baptized have been the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, and are an expresson of the ministry of the Church to the bereaved among us and to the deceased themselves who continue to be members of the church, suffering and triumphant. The Catholic cemetery seeks to assist people in accepting the reality of death in a context of faith in the promise of eternal life."
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