"Coming Home"

Announcements

MAUSOLEA OPEN HOUSE

Join us each home football weekend, Fridays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to Noon, for our Mausolea Open House. Tour the facility and have your questions answered by one of our Cemetery Counselors. For more information call 574.631.5660.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

"Coming Home" a New Ministry at Notre Dame Builds Upon Meaning and Mission. This is the title of a recent article published in the December, 2007 issue of Catholic Cemetery Magazine. Cedar Grove Cemetery is pleased to share the story of "Coming Home" with you. Please click on the link to your right to view the full article in pdf format. To request a copy by mail, please call us at 574.631.5660 or send an e-mail to cominghome@nd.edu.

Our Lady of Sorrows at Cedar Grove Cemetery
Opens in July, 2007

To broaden its reach to the Notre Dame community, Cedar Grove Cemetery has introduced new alternatives for Christian burial. Above-ground crypts and niches are now available in a new mausolea complex named Our Lady of Sorrows at Cedar Grove Cemetery. Known as “Coming Home,” the initiative to offer above-ground burial responds to the high level of desire on the part of Notre Dame alumni and members of Sacred Heart Parish to make Cedar Grove Cemetery at Notre Dame their final resting place. Alumni and members of Sacred Heart Parish are eligible to select above-ground burial while faculty and staff continue to have exclusive rights to in-ground burial as well as access to the new above-ground options.

To obtain an information packet fully explaining the options available, please submit an Information Request Form. Upon receipt of your request, an information packet will be mailed to you within two (2) business days. To view the information packet now, click on the link in the right hand column of this page.

Purchases of above-ground burial space may be made in person or via the telephone during a pre-arranged counseling session with one of our Cemetery Counselors. To schedule your counseling session or to simply obtain more information, please call us at 574.631.5660.

A New Tradition

“Coming Home” at Cedar Grove Cemetery is the result of several years’ study of available options to extend the longevity of the Cemetery and expand the Cemetery and its ministry to a wider Notre Dame community.

"For those nurtured on its campus and proud of its traditions and spirit, Notre Dame evokes a sense of family. Whatever one’s origins or time of matriculation or employment, there is a bond that links the generations and makes them comfortable with the symbols, sites and songs of the place."
Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., President Emeritus

Since 1843, a year after the University was founded, the Cemetery has been dedicated to practicing the corporal act of mercy of burying the dead, and the spiritual works of mercy of comforting the afflicted and praying for the living and the dead.

In order to ensure the continuation of these ministries, a Master Plan for Cedar Grove Cemetery was developed, guided by the goals of:

  • Serving ministry needs
  • Expanding chapel use
  • Continuing as a ‘good Steward’ of University property
  • Broadening cemetery inventory
  • Expanding constituent eligibility to University alumni
  • Weaving “new” cemetery with “old,” historic cemetery grounds

These goals are aligned with the University’s tenets for campus planning and mirror its Master Plan.