Graves, Tombs, and Cemeteries

Graves, Tombs, and Cemeteries

by Paul Kowalewski

As usual, I am sitting quietly in my garden basking in the hope of daybreak. In the Christian calendar today is “Holy Saturday” – the day in which the body of Jesus lay dead on a slab inside a tomb.

While it may sound somewhat somber and even a bit macabre, this day always makes me think about graves and tombs and cemeteries – my own eventual grave, the tombs of my loved ones, the graves in which all of us will eventually rest.

Today I also think about that week I once spent living in a cemetery.

Several years ago, my wife and I accompanied our choir on a tour of the United Kingdom. The choir was to sing for a week of services at the ancient Anglican Cathedral in the City of Saint Davids in Wales. Since this “city” is really more like a small town with few hotels, we all had to stay in whatever little places we could find scattered throughout the region.

My wife and I were booked into what was advertised as “a lovely little ‘bed and breakfast’ high atop a hill overlooking the Irish Sea.” And so it was – a quaint little 17th century cottage that did indeed overlook the ocean. What we didn’t know was that this house was once the home of the graves’ keeper, and it was located right smack-dab in the middle of a centuries-old cemetery. READ MORE

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