All Souls Remembrance Masses: Monday, November 3, 2025

Help us “Gather Them Home” Through Our All Souls Remembrance Ministry

"The act of burying the dead is consistent with our belief that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and deserves respect at all stages of existence. For a wide variety of reasons, families may have not yet provided for the final disposition of the cremated remains of family members. The cremated remains are often taken home with plans for proper disposition at some time in the future. Since many times cremated remains are never retrieved from the funeral home or crematory, those sites will also be offered the same opportunity to bring forth remains for respectful disposition."

On Monday, November 3rd, 2025 the archdiocese will offer to people of all faiths the opportunity to inter the cremated remains of their loved ones in a community space at one of six of our cemeteries, preceded by a celebration of mass.

We will be holding these servicesa at the following locations:

All Saints Cemetery: 10:00 AM Chapel

Holy Cross Cemetery: 10:00 AM Chapel of The Holy Cross (West Chapel)

Mount Olivet Cemetery

Resurrection Cemetery: 4:00 PM Chapel

St. Adalbert Cemetery: 10:00 AM Holy Family Chapel

St. Joseph Cemetery: 10:00 AM Chapel

Please contact the cemetery you are interested in placing cremated remains at for further details.

This service is provided free of charge, but registrations are required. (Please see below)

The deadline to register is 4:30 PM on Monday, October 27th, 2025.

All cremated remains will be placed in the All Souls Remembrance Crypt and remain there for five years after the signing of our Burial Authorization Form. Within that five year timeframe, families may retrieve the cremated remains for private/family interment at our or another cemetery. Families who decide to proceed with this activity will be responsible for all costs involved. 

After five years have passed, unclaimed cremated remains may be removed from the crypt and interred in a full-sized, in-ground grave with other such cremated remains. We will consider this in-ground interment a "final" burial and the cremated remains will not be able to be retrieved. In extreme and rare situations, and only with the approval of the location manager, we can attempt to retrieve cremated remains from that common grave. As these urns are placed in a full-sized grave liner, this activity would be treated as a disinterment and reinterment of a ful-sized casket burial. Families who decide to proceed with this activity will be responsible fior all costs involved. 

Interested parties will need to register

You must register for the service ahead of time so that we are able to accommodate all those wishing to access this service for their family members.

Please contact the cemetery you are interested in directly to complete the registration form.

Fall Cleaning/Spring Decorations and American Flags

As stated in our Visitation and Decoration brochure, families are allowed to place Spring/Summer decorations in their pemanently installed vases starting on April 16th.

These grave decorations will remain in the graves until October 14th. At that time, they will be disposed of starting on October 15th.

American flags may be placed next to or in front of headstones starting May 1st. We will have a limited number of flags available in our offices, but we encourage you to bring your own to be certain one is placed. Flags will be removed from graves starting July 15th.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the cemetery in question directly.

WEBSITE CORRECTIONS AND UPDATES

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Cemeteries (AOMCC) prides itself on being one of the first cemeteries in the country to integrate its internal burial records information with its own website. This site, in connection with our Cemetery Inventory Management System (CIMS), has assisted families in searching for the interment locations of their loved ones on our "Genealogy" tab for many, many years.

Unfortunately, as technology advances, what was once "state of the art" is now almost obsolete. What "worked" in older versions of software no longer works as we'd hope. For example, the option to add comments and such has not worked properly for some time. 

We are currently developing a new software program and website access that will bring many of our features up-to-date with remarkable accuracy and detail. Corrections and updates of names, intement locations and the like are ongoing and will be part of the new system. We are several months away from this new program, but we assure you it will very much be worth the wait!

Until then, our website will continue to be available to you in the best condition we can provide. If you would like the most up-to-date, accurate records possible, please contact the cemetery you wish to inquire about and you can discuss it with their Family Serive Coordionators and/or Family Service Advisors.

We thank you for your patience and we look forward to serving you! 

Milwaukee Catholic Cemeteries

Serving the Catholic Community Since 1857

The ministry of these Catholic Cemeteries is
the work of consolation as our part of the ministry of Christ

• we reverently bury the dead
• we compassionately support the living who mourn them

Visitation and Decoration Policies

As you visit our cemeteries, we would like to remind you that the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Cemeteries (AOMCC) crews clean every cemetery and mausoleum as regularly as possible aside from our regular Fall and Spring cleaning dates to remove and discard decorations not in compliance with decoration policies. Anything not in a vase or growing in the ground near graves, and anything placed on a crypt or niche front not purchased through AOMCC is considered a violation and will be removed in time. For further details on our policies, please contact the cemetery office where you wish to do your decorating and please review our Visitation and Decoration Policy brochure.

Read more about our policies and download the brochure.