Each year, a number of our cemeteries hold Cemetery Services, where we gather to pray and give thanks for those who have gone before us, those we love and see no longer, and to tend the graves of those laid to rest in our cemeteries.
Tending a grave and caring for a cemetery is a very real way of saying that we take seriously the values and responsibilities that we inherit from those who have gone before us. The cemetery is one of the glues that holds a society together. It reminds us of what we have been given from the past, and what we will have to pass on one day.
Across the Parish of the Valley, we hold Cemetery Services beginning in June and continuing throughout the summer. Cemetery Services for the Parish of the Valley are listed below and will also be published in the Valley Bulletin and shared in our Parish E-Newsletter as we get closer to the dates.
- Sunday, June 7 at 2pm - St. Thomas’ Rankin Cemetery Service
- Sunday, June 14 at 2pm - St. Patrick’s Lower Stafford Cemetery Service
- Sunday, June 21 at 11am - St. John’s Eganville Cemetery Service. Held in the church with an optional walk to the cemetery following the service.
- Sunday, June 28 at 2pm - St. Stephen’s Micksburg Cemetery Service
- Sunday, July 12 at 9am - Tramore Union Cemetery Service, held at St. John’s Tramore
- Sunday, July 19 at 9am - Holy Trinity Pembroke Cemetery Service, held in the cemetery
- Sunday, August 23 at 2pm - St. Paul’s Combermere Cemetery Service, held in the cemetery
- Sunday, August 30 at 2pm - St. Clement’s Chapel Clontarf Annual Memorial Service