ANNOUNCEMENTS

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...