Cemetery Information - Christ The Redeemer Parish

Christ The Redeemer - Roman Catholic Church, 98 South 2nd Ave., P.O. Box 924, Manville, NJ 08835 Phone: 908-725-0072

Cemetery Information

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Cemetery is owned and operated by the Polish Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Manville, NJ.
The grounds and all lots have been solemnly consecrated according to the Rites of the Roman Catholic Church and as such are subject to all the relevant canons of the Code of Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Cemetery conforms in all relevant matters to the applicable laws of the New Jersey State Statutes regulating the operation and administration of such facilities.
The administration and supervision of the Cemetery are the responsibility of the Pastor of Sacred Heart Church.
The enforcement of all rules and regulations is entrusted to the superintendent of the Cemetery and his staff.
The Cemetery office is located in the parish administration building on the corner of South 2nd Avenue and Filak Street in Manville.
Office hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Should it become necessary to make arrangments outside of office hours, appointments can be arranged.
The main gates of the Cemetery grounds are open daily from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. from May 1 through September 30, and from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from October 1 through April 30.
Sacred Heart Cemetery reserves the right to close the cemetery when conditions or situations warrant it. If the gates are closed during the day, it is because special work is being done there and, for safety reasons, people are not permitted into the cemetery. Under such circumstances, please make no effort to enter the cemetery.
When the cemetery entrance gate is closed, this indicates the cemetery is closed to visitors.

ENTERING THE CEMETERY THROUGH THE EXIT GATE AT ANY TIME IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

CEMETERY HISTORY
On December 5, 1917, a few days after his ordination, Father Francis A. Kasprowicz was sent to organize and minister to the needs of the Poles in what was eventually to become the Borough of Manville...

CEMETERY
In 1925, Sacred Heart Parish purchased 40 acres of property on the outskirts of Manville for a parish cemetery. It was blessed by Bishop Walsh on October 17, 1927. The cemetery is located on Millstone River Road in Hillsborough. ...

PURCHASE OF AN EASEMENT

Although the primary responsibility of Sacred Heart Cemetery is to serve the burial requirements of its own parishioners, the privilege of purchasing burial easements is extended to the members of the other Catholic parishes in Manville; i.e., Christ the King, St. Mary Byzantine, and St. Michael Ukrainian. Children (sons and daughters only) whose parents are interred in Sacred Heart Cemetery are also so privileged, providing perpetual care for their parents' graves is not wanting. Otherwise such privilege will be denied until this obligation is met.
The term "lot-owner" defines the purchaser of a burial easement who is subject to the conditions specified in the document issued at the time of purchase.
The purchase of a cemetery lot does not confer ownership of the land but only a right in the nature of an easement to use the lot for the burial of the dead for as long as the property continues to be used as a cemetery, as provided by law.
Lots purchased on a preneed basis may be reserved with a down payment of 25%, and the full purchase price to be paid within six months.
Cemetery lots shall be indivisible and the descent of a family plot to heirs occurs as regulated by civil law.
Private sale of burial easements by lot-owners is prohibited. In the event an owner of an easement wishes to terminate his ownership, the easement will revert to the cemetery at the original market value.
•If perpetual care has not been paid for a grave(s), the lot-owner is subject to an annual prevailing maintenance fee for such grave(s). The current rate can be determined by a call to the cemetery office.
Perpetual care provides overall, general maintenance of the cemetery such as grass cutting, trimming, leaf pickup, trash disposal, snow plowing of roads. It does not include coverage of damage or theft of grave decorations, flowers, vases, vigil lights, or monuments/markers.
Perpetual care must be paid for the entire plot before permission to erect a monument or add lettering to an existing monument is granted.
When purchasing an easement, monies are applied to all other charges before that of perpetual care. In other words, perpetual care is the last to be credited.
The cost of the foundation for monuments/markers is not included in the purchase price of the lot. The foundation price is part of the monument cost which is paid through the monument dealer.

INTERMENTS

Grave openings are done by the cemetery superintendent and his staff only.
The management may refuse interment in any lot against which there is any unpaid account balance.
No burials will be conducted on Saturday after noon. An overtime fee will be charged for all Saturday burials. No burials will be conducted on Sundays, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas or any Church holy days; i.e., Ascension Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, the Assumption, and All Saints Day.
Standard vaults or better are mandatory for all interments. Interments are limited to human remains.
No article inconsistent with propriety or dignity shall be permitted on any lot or grave. No photographs or any inscriptions deemed unsuitable by the Cemetery Administration may be placed on any monument or marker. The Superintendent is empowered to remove at his discretion any offending article.
For the purpose of performing work on any lot, grave or other part of the cemetery, the Cemetery reserves the right to enter upon and use adjoining areas, including lots or graves, and to use such machinery and materials as may be necessary to perform all the work in connection therewith. Said work shall include, without limitation, the making of interments, disinterments, and excavations for any other purpose, as well as repairs and improvements. When opening a grave or to make an interment or disinterment, the Cemetery accepts no responsibility for damage to any flowers, etc. on adjoining graves.
Due to the difficulty and expense involved in the disposal of flower arrangements under municipal solid waste disposal statutes, only a manageable amount of floral arrangments (four) are permitted to grace the casket during the graveside service. These floral arrangements will be removed and disposed of by cemetery personnel at their discretion, usually within three to five days after interment.

VISITS TO THE CEMETERY

Automobiles and other motorized vehicles on the grounds are not permitted to exceed five miles per hour, must remain on the paved roadways at all times, must follow the traffic pattern as determined by the painted arrows, must keep to the right, may not turn around in the roadways, may park only and entirely on the paved driveways. Parking on graves is strictly prohibited.
The grounds are not to be entered except through the gates and only for the purpose of respectful visiting or personal expression of devotion and are never to be used for recreation, picnicking, car washing, sports, social gatherings, or driving instructions. Loud, boisterous or disrespectful behavior of any kind will not be tolerated by the management.
Children under the age of fifteen are not permitted on the grounds without an accompanying adult.
Pets are not permitted on the grounds at any time for any reason.
Any person who destroys, defaces, or in any way vandalizes any monument, tree, shrub, plant, or building on the property, or deposits debris or garbage in the cemetery's receptacles is guilty of a serious offense and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

MAINTENANCE

Requests for any and all work to be done at the cemetery should be submitted to the cemetery office either by phone or in writing. Please do not interrupt the superintendent or cemetery employees with these requests.
For liability insurance purposes, only the cemetery contractors are authorized to cut grass. It is not permitted, under any circumstances, to bring mowers or power equipment of any kind onto the cemetery grounds.
Under no circumstances are the cemetery employees to be interrupted when they are working, and in particular, when they are using power machinery.
Other than the one-foot planting area in front of a monument, work of any kind at the cemetery is to be done exclusively by our work crew. Private cutting of grass, planting of sod or grass seed, adding fertilizers, etc., are strictly prohibited.
For safety reasons, visits to graves should be postponed when power machinery is being used in the vicinity.
Seed will be planted at the discretion of the superintendent based on settling of the grave, weather conditions, and work schedules.
When seed is planted, the family's cooperation is requested for watering it until it takes hold.
Please conform to recycling procedures. Dispose of cemetery trash in appropriately marked receptacles.

FLOWERS, PLANTS AND GRAVE ACCOUTREMENTS

Only the regulation flower vase is permitted. Tin cans, glass jars, etc., are not permitted and will be removed without notice. •Fresh cut flowers may be placed on cemetery lots only in regulation vases, which are available for purchase through the office.
During the spring and summer months small, non-spreading flowers, such as geraniums, petunias, impatiens, etc., may be planted within one foot of the front of the marker and in a prepared bed, and must be weeded, watered, and maintained by the lot-owner.
In the event the flower bed is not maintained, it will be cut down by the cemetery employees during trimming operations. •No shrubs, bushes, or spreading plants are permitted.
Potted plants are only permitted for holidays and are to be placed near the monument not more than one week before the holiday, and they are to be removed within two weeks after the given holiday (dates of removals will be announced in church bulletin); otherwise they will be disposed of by our cemetery crew.
Christmas grave decorations must be tied to the headstone. Metal clips are not permitted.
Holiday decorations; i.e., Christmas, Easter, etc., are limited to ONE DECORATION PER GRAVE.
The placement of flowers, plants, and decorations are at the discretion of the family. Sacred Heart Cemetery does not accept any responsibility for such decorations in the event of damage or theft.
No mounds are permitted.
Articles such as shells, stone chips, mulch, wood chips, glass receptacles, styrofoam and wooden crosses, statues (and other decorative objects which may in the judgment of the superintendent be objectionable) will be disposed of without notice.
Personal effects, such as statues, knick knacks, caps, key chains, novelties, etc., are not permitted and will be disposed of without notice.
Balloons, greeting cards, vegetables (such as pumpkins, tomatoes), fruits, etc., are inappropriate as grave decorations and are not permitted and will be disposed of without notice.
Fences, hedges, coping, edging, curbing enclosures, ironwork, wires, seats, urns, posts, and any and all such permanent accoutrements are prohibited on the cemetery lots and will be disposed of without notice.
Vigil lights are not recommended. Should a vigil light be installed on a grave, Sacred Heart Cemetery is not responsible in the event of breakage, theft, or vandalism.
Flags may be placed in appropriate holders on the graves of veterans.

MONUMENTS AND MARKERS

All financial obligations pertaining to the funeral and/or burial must be satisfied before permission to erect a monument or to add lettering to an existing monument is granted. Such permission can only be obtained at the cemetery office.
Monuments and markers may be purchased from any company, from any public or private source.
Inscriptions and symbols on monuments should be chosen with consideration for the dignity of the cemetery. Depiction of hobbies on monuments is not permitted.
In Sections A, B, C, and D, size and type of monuments are not critical factors, however, discretion should be exercised in choosing a monument.
In Sections E, F, G, and H (Row 101 and higher), upright monuments must conform to the size established for the respective area in order to maintain a uniform appearance. Only gray granite is permitted.
Installation of monuments and markers and all inscriptions are the sole responsibility of the company which provides them and must be scheduled through the cemetery office and accomplished under the supervision of the cemetery management upon issuance of a permit.
The cost of the foundation for monuments/markers is the responsibility of the family/survivors. The foundation fee is due when the monument order is placed.
Markers are installed flush with the ground (below grass level).
Government markers and those identifying an infant's interment are the only flush markers permitted in Row 101 and higher.
On December 27, 2001, President Bush signed a law which allows the Department of Veterans Affairs to furnish an appropriate marker for the graves of eligible veterans buried in private cemeteries, whose deaths occurred on or after December 27, 2001. This law is not retroactive. Only the flat, bronze marker is permitted. The fee for installation of the foundation for such markers is the responsibility of the family. All funeral/burial expenses must be paid in full before requests for Government markers will be processed.
Foundations are poured only by cemetery employees.
Cost of repair, maintenance, and upkeep of all monuments, markers, and their foundations are the responsiblity of lot-owners. Permits for such work must be obtained at the cemetery office.
The management will not be responsible for damage to any monument or marker within the cemetery.
Pouring foundations, installing monuments, etc., is done at the discretion of the superintendent and is contingent on the weather and work schedules.

MASS AND DEVOTIONS
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SATURDAY EVENING:
CTK	4:30 pm	English
SH	6:00 pm	English

SUNDAY:
SH	7:00 am	Polish
CTK	8:30 am	English
SH	8:30 am	English
SH	10:00 am	English
CTK	10:30 am	English
SH	11:30 am	Polish

HOLY DAYS ANTICIPATED EVENING MASS:
SH	6:00 pm	English

HOLY DAYS:
CTK	7:00 am	English
SH	11:00 am	English
CTK	6:00 pm	English
SH	7:00 pm	Polish

WEEKDAY MASSES:
CTK	7:00 am M - F	English
SH	8:00 am M,T,Th,S	Polish
SH	11:00 am M,T,Th,S	English
SH	7:00 pm W,F	Polish

NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP:
SH	11:00 am Tuesday	English
SH	7:00 pm Wednesday	Polish

CONFESSION:
SH	6:30-7:00pm Wednesday & Friday
SH	11:30-12:30pm Saturday
	4:45-5:45 pm Saturday
CTK	3:30-4:15 pm Saturday

*SH	Sacred Heart Church 98 South 2nd Ave. Manville, NJ
*CTK	Christ the King Church 211 Louis Street Manville, NJ 08835

COMING UP

PRAYER INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER ENTRUSTED TO THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER FOR THE YEAR 2017

APRIL

Young People.
That young people may respond generously to their vocations and seriously consider offering themselves to God in the priesthood or consecrated life.

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

HAPPY EASTER dear Friends!

With our celebration of Easter, we proclaim “Christ is risen,” and call each other and the world to renew our hope. That call to hope is actually a very daring invitation. Who are we, then, to proclaim hope? How do we dare to say that there is a reason for hope? Our response is simple, and our conviction is firm. We have come to know Jesus, the Risen Christ. We have come to know Jesus in his word and in his sacraments. We have known him in each other, in the faces of those whom we love and in the faces of the poor and marginalized. Our knowledge of him has brought us before his cross on which he destroyed sin and death. Our knowledge of him has brought us to stand before him as the Risen One who breathes the new life of the Spirit into those who believe in him.
We dare to hope, because the eternal Word of God dared to take our flesh and passed through death to new and glorious life. He opened the way for us to embrace eternal life. And so we dare to hope and, even more, dare to share that hope with a wounded struggling world.
Let us continue to grow in love for the Lord every day and pray for one another as we together journey to an ever deeper faith and reawaken faith in those whose faith is in slumber. May our faith and confidence in the Risen Christ will bless this world with the renewed hope that it desperately needs.
In the Risen Lord Jesus,

Our God is a God of justice, but also a God of mercy. Through the blood of Jesus, God's mercy is available to us now. It is up to us to decide to accept it. We don't want to be camping out in "Sin Forest" when judgment time comes.

last updated: 01.25.2017