The Diocese of Springfield is committed to promoting services in our Catholic cemeteries that are ministerial in character. Our primary focus will continue to be comfort to the bereaved. The Catholic cemetery will be a place of prayer and liturgical celebration. We will continue to express Catholic belief and practice in all that surrounds the reality of death.

Our Catholic cemeteries will be places where the meaning of life and death is well expressed in symbol and action. We will not attempt to hide the hard reality of death, for death is not easy. We will make our cemeteries places of remembering, healing, strengthening, and prayer. In this way Catholic cemeteries in the Diocese of Springfield will continue to give perspective and meaning to life, death and life after death.

Brian Kennedy
Director of Cemeteries
Gate of Heaven Cemetery
421 Tinkham Road
Springfield, MA 01129
[email protected]