Reflections from Robert
Important announcements and communications directly from our CEO Robert Seelig to all CFCS team members.
Our World is Crying…Telling Our Story
Hi Everyone, I write you this message this morning as I fly at 32,000 feet from San Francisco to Chicago to attend Catholic Extension’s Mission Bishops Conference. It is a beautiful morning filled with sunlight and clear skies above the clouds. This is an event held...
Conversations from Boulder
Hi Everyone, I hope you are enjoying the final weeks of summer! I thought it would be good this month to report back to you conversations that occurred a few weeks ago as we gathered all of our cemetery directors from around the country in Boulder, Colorado for a...
Opening the “Door” to Christ
Hi Everyone, It was just two weeks ago that we celebrated Mass with Archbishop Vigneron in the Archdiocese of Detroit. Today I am writing you from the Archdiocese of San Juan in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico means “rich harbor." This is the first diocese in the Western...
Catholic Funerals Are Helping ‘Fill the Void of Loss With Faith’
SOURCE: Crux [Editor’s Note: Robert Seelig leads Catholic Funeral & Cemetery Services (CFCS) as CEO and founder. He created the vision for CFCS as “Church helping Church” and as such, he continues to look for ways to leverage its investment in resources by...
Robert Seelig on Catholic Community Radio
SOURCE: Catholic Community Radio You can listen to Robert Seelig's interview at minute 30:28.
Finding Solace in a Cemetery, National Catholic Register
SOURCE: National Catholic Register Death is never easy, but through our faith we have the promise of everlasting life and peace. A few years ago, I found solace in a place I had avoided since my father’s suicide 50 years ago: a cemetery. My father was only 37 years...
Sacred Heart Radio’s Driving Home the Faith Interview
SOURCE: Sacred Heart Radio You can listen to the interview on Soundcloud. It begins at hour 1:36:39.
Southern Catholic Living Guadalupe Radio Network Interview
SOURCE: Southern Catholic Living, Guadalupe Radio Network You can watch the full interview on Facebook. It begins at minute 16:10 and ends at 51:38.
Mission in Confinement…Confusion and Blessings Abound
Hi Everyone, If the frequency of my messages are any indicator of the busyness of CFCS, you can see that I am down to getting one message out per week. While we still work in confinement, June marks the beginning of new phases and stages around the country. I promise...
Elevating Our Mission
Hi Everyone, I have both good news and disappointing news to share with you this today. First, I want to share with you a realization that I had over the Memorial Day weekend. It was a hard few days, as I realized that it is time that I embrace each new day as...
The Distance Between Us
Hi Everyone, For all of us working in Catholic cemeteries, the words “Holy Ground” have often represented the physical place that we bury the dead. Today I’d like you to consider expanding this understanding. One of the great spiritual writers of the past 50 years in...
Is it Tuesday?
Hi Everyone, How many of us forget what day of the week it is? I don’t know how it is for you, but I’ve been looking back at the last 8 weeks trying to figure out how my routine has changed. There isn’t a week that goes by that my wife and I have to remind ourselves...
Employee Safety an Anxious Time in the Work Place
Hi Everyone, Well, here we are entering Week 8 since shelter-in-place and stay-at-home policies were implemented around the country. As many of you read in Friday’s update by Ron Gies, over 60,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus. This is tragic and we are...
Emerging from the Fog
Hi Everyone, Is it only me or does anyone else feel like the past 7 weeks have been like being lost in a fog. What day is it? What did I do today at work or at home? How can you plan to do anything when you can’t do anything? Being lost in a fog makes it difficult to...
Tuesday Humor
Hi Everyone, So here we are…another Tuesday as we settle into the workweek. First a word about Mondays. I’ve been through 7 of them since shelter-in-place began. They seem to be tough, right? They are harder than Mondays before the pandemic. Every week I feel like I...
Creativity in Our Confinement
Hi Everyone, It has been a while since I communicated with all of you. We are in the days of confinement and also in the days of anticipation, as talks of lifting restrictions entice us to dream of returning to some sort of “normal”. With live-in dual worlds, some of...
Robert Seelig on EWTN News Nightly
SOURCE: EWTN News Nightly Public vigils, funeral Masses and committal services are ways to honor and mourn our loved ones who have died, but coronavirus restrictions have impacted these traditions. Robert Seelig, CEO of Catholic Funeral and Cemetery Services, shares...
The Road Forward…Seeing the “Backside” of God
Last Tuesday we all shared in a talk by Dr. Jim Langley on coping skills for dealing with work and life during the pandemic. If I fast forward a week, it is hard to imagine that he spoke with us just 7 days ago. I feel like I need to go back and listen again to see...
An Easter Like No Other
Hi Everyone, Happy Easter to each of you! I started this note last week as we entered Good Friday thinking about what this 40-day Lenten journey has been for all of us. I realized that we were about to begin an Easter celebration like no other in our lives. Before I...
Shepherd’s Hour of Need
As we enter into the Triduum and the holiest days of our liturgical year, I wanted to share a unique effort to communicate to our bishops and priests. As a ministry on the front lines, we have learned some valuable lessons and been blessed to build new approaches to...