Consecrated in 1959, two Archdiocesan cemeteries serve the faithful of South Florida with Catholic burial. Making a Catholic Cemetery your choice is one final and lasting way to affirm your devotion to your faith and to your loved ones.
For more than four decades, the Church has provided the Catholic South Florida community with a sacred enclosure for those who have lived within the faith and a measure of comfort to those who come in bereavement.
Catholic Cemeteries perform a sacred function on behalf of the entire Christian community. They serve as symbols of the extended community of believers, a community unbroken by death.
Each cemetery, one in Broward County and one in Miami-Dade County, consist of 125 acres designed, developed and landscaped to provide a setting of beauty and tranquility. They offer traditional ground burial, lawn crypts and niches for cremated remains. Columbaria are also located in the beautiful marble and stained glass chapel mausoleums, where remembrance masses are celebrated regularly.
Both of our Catholic Cemeteries are open daily from 8:00am - 5:30pm
Remembrance Masses
Masses are offered for the repose of those interred in the Catholic Cemeteries, weekly at Our Lady of Mercy and monthly at Our Lady Queen of Heaven. In addition, Memorial masses are celebrated on Memorial Day and All Souls’ Day in the Chapel Mausoleums for the families of those resting in our Catholic Cemeteries.
Cremation
If cremation is your choice, cremated remains should be treated with the same respect given the human body by using a memorial urn to hold the remains. Cremated remains should be placed in a grave or entombed in a mausoleum or columbarium.
At-Need Sales
Professional, compassionate and sensitive counselors are available to help with all burial arrangements and guide families through every step of the process.
Pre-Need Sales
When a death occurs, what loved ones need most is time to grieve, to remember and support each other. The emotional strain of coping with loss is made even harder because of unforeseen questions about a loved one’s final wishes. The family’s time of healing is interrupted daily with complicated necessities of handling cemetery and funeral arrangements.
Someday everyone will have to face the purchase of his or her burial estate. It is certainly easier, kinder and more economical to do it together, as a family, before the moment of need.
To contact a pre-need family counselor, please call 1-800-988-9996
Memorials
There are a wide variety of memorials and monuments to select from to honor your loved one or remember a family.
Our Lady Queen of Heaven
1500 South State Road 7
North Lauderdale, FL 33068
(954) 972-1234
Our Lady of Mercy
11411 NW 25th Street
Miami, FL 33172
(305) 592-0521