"I go to prepare a place for you" John 14:2
St Thomas Cemetery is set apart from other cemeteries, in that we are part of the ministry of the Catholic Church. Our cemetery provides holy ground where we bring respectful dignity to the mortal remains entrusted to our care. We believe that we owe recognition to those previous generations who have lived in faith. In death, as in life, we belong to the Lord. Our faith in Jesus' Resurrection enables us to offer hope and warmth to the hearts and souls burdened with grief and anxiety. We feel truly blessed and sacredly priveleged to practice this Corporal Works of Mercy through the tradition of the Catholic Church.
June 28 - Colleen Chase Funeral Mass at 8:00, followed by burial at St Thomas Cemetery
June 30 - Janis Meckel Funeral Mass at 11:00 AM, reception to follow
July 22 - Maxine Karst inurnment at 1:00 in St Thomas Cemetery, Family providing clergy
July 23 - Austin Mullen Funeral Mass at 12:00
September 26 - Steve Christoff Funeral Mass at 8:00
R.I.P. Remembering Interred Parishioners
There are over 270 unmarked graves in our cemetery.
The Cemetery Committee has finished inventory
on the 5045 plots and noted burials
that are not marked.
We will have the name, birth and death dates and plot location engraved on pavers like this one for every unmarked grave..
We are asking our parishioners to "Adopt a Grave" by sponsoring a brick, or several!
Maybe someone with the same last name as yours?
Minimum donation of $25/paver, please
Please email or call Tina Johnson
to sponsor your pavers.
208.664.9259 X 3 or cemetery@stthomascda.org
Check out the newest section of our cemetery, the Fr. John Section!
This will add about 1/2 to 3/4 acre to our cemetery. The best news?
We didn't have to pay for it!
It was already ours!
Many thanks to our Architect:
Rick Schwarz
iN2iT Studio, LLC
P. 888.710.1770
C. 602.214.9216
rschwarz@in2itstudio.com
www.in2itstudio.com
The Cemetery Committee thanks
an anonymous donor
for adding another
new statue to our historic cemetery.
The photo at the left is of a Guardian Angel in
one of our baby sections.
Please consider a tax deductible donation
to add another
beautiful statue to our historic St Thomas Cemetery.
For more information, please call Tina
at 208.664.9259 X 3
or email at cemetery@stthomascda.org
Thank you to the Cada Family
for the very generous
donation of this beautiful
granite statue of
Our Lady of Fatima.
We also have 2 new
solid granite
benches close by
for meditation and rest.
We now have seven solid granite seating cubes in the Shrine at our cemetery! This is a beautiful space for quiet reflection.
Thank you to our seven sponsors for this wonderful addition to our Shrine.
Stop by and check out this new upgrade to our Shrine.
They are each unique,
as chosen by their sponsor.
To get to St Thomas Cemetery: from Sherman Avenue turn south on 21st street. Go 1 block to Front Avenue and turn left.
The cemetery will be straight ahead.
The cemetery is open daily, daylight hours.
Our Cemetery Sexton is Mike Kopf 208.661.8279
Cemetery Representative: Tina Johnson
cemetery@stthomascda.org 208.664.9259 X 3
The Cemetery Committee meets the first Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM in the Mission House library.
All are welcome to attend!
Call for a tour with one of our docents.
CEMETERY COMMITTEE:
Annemarie Lander, Williene Gagnon, Joey Haines,
Mike Kopf, Dennis Cada, Melanie Simpson,
Gary and Tina Johnson, Michael Mocny, Kevin Jenne
Enter one of the websites below on your
phone or mobile device.
maps.cdaid.org/burial/
In the upper right hand corner, enter whose grave you are looking for, last name first.
findagrave.com
Enter whose grave you are looking for and in the cemetery space type "coeur"
QR code scan for our cemetery as well as Forest and Riverview
A Funeral Mass is held when the body or cremains of the deceased is present in the church.
When planning a Funeral Mass, please contact St Thomas (208.664.9259) as to the availability of our priests calendar. If the deceased is Catholic, they must have a Catholic Funeral Rite (Funeral Mass or religious service) prior to burial or inurnment in
St Thomas Cemetery.
A Funeral Mass or Service can have up to five readings. If your funeral Mass is at 11:00, you can choose these readings,
Please notify Tina Johnson (cemetery@stthomascda.org) of your choices prior to the funeral.
To arrange music for a funeral, contact our Sacred Music Director, Matthew Loucks, sacredmusic@stthomascda.org or
208-664-9259 ext 5. If families have particular music in mind, Matthew will be happy to help them with their selections.
LITURGICAL MUSIC OFFERING
(11:00AM Funeral Masses)
Option #1: Single Cantor (unaccompanied): $225
Parish Cantor selects all music and leads without accompaniment
Option #2: Single Cantor and Organist: $500
Parish Cantor selects all music and leads with organ accompaniment
Option #3: Schola (choir of 3-5 singers): $550
Parish provides appropriate liturgical music including prescribed Antiphons,
Mass Ordinary, Psalm, Gospel Acclamation, Propers, Communion Chant,
Song of Farewell and Recessional.
Guest musicians are welcome to participate with prior approval of the Director of Sacred Music.
Guest musicians are welcome to provide appropriate and approved liturgical music for
one or more of the following (only): Prelude (1 piece), Offertory Hymn, Eucharistic Hymn for Communion
Meditation.
Liturgical Music selections (hymns) are welcomed and encouraged from the family of the deceased.
Liturgical Music selections are to be chosen from the Parish's Ignatius Pew Missal
and/or the St. Michael Hymnal (allowing all present to participate fully).
Option #4: Arrangement for additional instrumentalists can be scheduled (as available) by the Director of Sacred Music
for an additional $125 (per instrumentalist): trumpet; violin; cello, bagpipes, etc...
The Ladies Auxiliary is back joyfully hosting after funeral receptions in the parish center. Receptions are provided by the Ladies Auxiliary on a donation basis as they purchase and prepare all the food. Please call Kathy Perez, our Ladies Auxiliary contact person:208-664-2885.
You may choose any funeral home or monument company. We have listed the ones we work with on a regular basis.
Yates Funeral Home: www.yatesfuneralhomes.com/ 208.664.3151 744 N. 4th Coeur d'Alene
English Funeral Chapel: www.englishfuneralchapel.com/ 208.664.3143 1133 N. 4th Coeur d'Alene
Bell Tower Funeral Home https://belltowerfuneralhome.com/ 208.457.8880 3398 East Jenalan Avenue, Post Falls
Yates Funeral Home in Hayden: 373 East Hayden 83835
Coeur d'Alene Monument 208.772.4015
Tresko Monument 509.838.3196
Double side-by-side plots, headstone maximum size 60" X 24" including a 4" collar
Single full plot, headstone maximum size: 30" X 24" including a 4" collar
Cremation grave headstone maximum size 24" X 16" including a 4" collar
Infant grave headstone maximum size 16" X 12" including a 3" collar
Niche, all are double (10 1/4' X 10 1/4"X 10 1/4") $1900
Opening/Closing a niche 350
Niche Etching 150
Niche Etching for death date only 50
Perpetual Care 125
Priest Services (Suggested Stole Fee) 200*
* If the inurnment immediately follows the Memorial Mass, a separate
Stoll Fee will not be charged.
All fees payable in full prior to services.
Cemetery Plot (none currently available)
Cremation Plot, all are double 1000
Opening/Closing cremation plot 350
Perpetual Care 125
Priest Services (Stole Fee) 200*
* If the cemetery service immediately follows the funeral/memorial Mass,
a separate Stole Fee will not be charged.
All fees payable in full prior to services.
Funeral/Memorial Mass at St Thomas for Non-parishioners $200
Priest Services at Mass 200
Altar Servers, each 25
Easement Transfer, each 40
Parish Center Rental for Non-parishioner 150
Ladies Auxiliary Luncheon (By Donation)
Mission House Dining Room Rental for Non-parishioner 150
All fees payable in full prior to services.
A Pope who was martyred October 14 A.D. 222 . He is famous by the ancient cemetery which he beautified, and which, for the great number of holy martyrs whose bodies were buried there, was the most celebrated of all those in Rome. He regarded the mortal remains of the dead precious in the eyes of God, who watches over them, regarding them as the apple of his eye, to be raised one day in the brightest glory, and made shining lusters in the heavenly Jerusalem.
He was the founder of Christian monasticism.
In the course of his remarkable and extraordinarily long life, Anthony would live to see the Emperor Constantine's establishment of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman empire. Anthony himself, however, would establish something more lasting – by becoming the spiritual father of the monastic communities
St. Anthony may have been up to 105 years old when he died, sometime between 350 and 356. In keeping with his instructions, two of his disciples buried his body secretly in an unmarked grave.