William Sutherland's photos with the keyword: Cemeteries

Note: Created from a photo of Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY (taken 26 October 2014) and a photo of a Halloween display, Mamaroneck, NY (taken on 29 October 2024) Death is... not the end. Our final breath in this life is simply a doorway into an eternal future… [Psalm 16:11] Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening… [Yet] no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. [Unknown] [L] ove never dies. It endures and lives on forever… [1 Corinthians 13:7-8] [and] is… the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave. [Theodore Dreiser]

Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, NY “ [T] here is a… great silence, and stillness” and fear “over the earth” [1] on this Ash Wednesday as we are reminded – “You are dust and to dust you shall return.” [Genesis 3:19] It is 1347 again. COVID-19 is the Black Death of 2020. Though the number of afflicted rises, Medieval lock downs are expanded, isolation threatens social bonds and peoples worldwide are urged to prepare for an uncertain future with significant disruptions in life, gloom cannot extinguish hope for God has “posted [angels] to guard you” [2] and “will take away from thee all sickness” [Deuteronomy 7:15] with the promise, “I [W] ho am life… I [M] yself am united to you.” [3] We , humankind will get through this! ___________ [1], [2], and [3] From an Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday. 26 February 2020. www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit_20010414_omelia-sabato-santo_en.html

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY

Oakland Cemetery, Yonkers, NY

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY

Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY

Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY

Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, NY

St. Joseph's Cemetery, Yonkers, NY

Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, NY

Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, NY

Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, NY