This past Memorial Day, I celebrated the outdoor Mass at Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery on the South Side. It is right next to Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery, where Archbishop James Quigley (1903-1915) built the crypt that holds the bodies of most of Chicago’s archbishops.
After the Mass, celebrated for those who have died for our country and for all those whose bodies rest in Queen of Heaven’s consecrated ground, I had a discussion with the director of the cemeteries about where I wanted to be buried. That’s a good sign, it seems to me, that the horizon of death is closer than I might want to believe. It’s also
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