{"id":4255,"date":"2015-09-22T15:24:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2015-09-22T15:24:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:24:31","slug":"the-garden-of-the-holy-family-columbarium-at-2nd-calvary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2015\/09\/22\/the-garden-of-the-holy-family-columbarium-at-2nd-calvary.html","title":{"rendered":"Garden of the Holy Family Columbarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AJ1NVEWPBrw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is a video I made at 2nd Calvary, Section 43, in which I recorded a walk-through of the new Garden of the Holy Family Columbarium. In summary I point out that cremation remains unpopular among Catholics, even as the church&#8217;s ban on the practice was lifted over 50 years ago. 50+ year might sound like a long time but when weighed against centuries of custom it barely represents even a start in changing attitudes. And it&#8217;s not as if Catholics everywhere were chomping at the bit waiting for the ban to be lifted. The new columbarium has capacity for nearly 3,000 individual urns. At present only 9 names are engraved on the niches, suggesting at a glance that sales here have been quite slow. It is likely, however, that many more niches have been sold on a pre-need basis, and that the business side of this endeavor is doing better than it might appear. The structure was built by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eickhofcolumbaria.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eickhof Columbaria<\/a><\/strong>, a firm which seems to be well-heeled in this space. I like the new structure a lot, though I had imagined that Calvary would go a little bigger in terms of capacity. It&#8217;s possible that the design is modular, so that if and when it ever reaches capacity maybe more niches could be stacked on top. I also like that it is outdoors, but it seems this erases the possibility of glass in place of the granite panels. See-through glass panels would encourage display of creative and artistic urns, as seen at other indoor columbaria. It is probably not on Calvary&#8217;s radar but I, for one, found some joy in surveying the creative things folks did with their urns at St. Michael&#8217;s Cemetery in particular.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI made a short video walk through of the new Garden of the Holy Family Columbarium at 2nd Calvary in Queens. See if you don&#8217;t think my voice sounds like Joe Frank on a really bad assignment.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[126,149],"class_list":["post-4255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-calvary-stories","tag-calvary","tag-columbarium","post_format-post-format-video","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-16D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}