MEMORIAL MASSES 2008...

Memorial Day Mass celebrated at Mt. Calvary Cemetery

Memorial Masses are celebrated for those buried at Mt. Calvary Cemetery twice ach year. For the year 2008 Masses will be as follows:

HOLIDAY	DATE
Memorial Day	Monday, May, 26
All Souls Day	No Mass, see note below

Memorial Day Mass is celebrated on the altar in the Holy Cross Plat located in the center of the Cemetery at 9:00AM. In the event of inclement weather, the Mass will be celebrated in the Risen Savior Mausoleum.

All Souls Day Mass is celebrated in the chapel of the Risen Savior Mausoleum at 12:00 PM, except in those years when All Souls Day falls on Sunday.

We thank The Most Reverend John C. Wester for celebrating the Memorial Day Mass on May 28, 2007.

The following article appeared in the Intermountain Catholic Newspaper issued June 1, 2007:

SALT LAKE CITY—Nationwide, cemeteries were filled Monday, May 28 with visitors observing the Memorial Day holiday by visiting the graves of veterans and those who died in battle. In Salt Lake City, several hundred people joined Bishop John Wester of the Diocese of Salt Lake City as he offered Mass in memory of the dead at Mount Calvary Cemetery. “It’s impossible to ever capture or imagine what it was like for the brave men and women who died for our freedoms, who left home and fulfilled their duty so that we might have freedom. What we do today is to pray for them, honor them, and to ask God to bless them,” he said. “You and I are polishing this table, this altar, this monument in remembrance of our loved ones and our unique, ongoing relationships with them, and in remembrance of the one who invites us to himself when he says, ‘Do this in remembrance of me.’”