For people who have lost loved ones, Christmas can be a lonely and difficult time emotionally.
 
That is why the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown offers a get together so people can grieve, celebrate and remember the ones they love most as they prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
 
This is the second year for this event.
 
Making Christmas ornaments writing the names of the people we love most and cherish on them is bringing folks together this holiday season to remember, and celebrate how they enriched our lives.
 
The Catholic Funeral and Cemetery Services with the Diocese of Youngstown invited people who have lost loved ones and the general public to join together at Calvary Cemetery in Youngstown,  Resurrection Cemetery in Austintown, or All Souls  in Cortland for special prayer services.
 
"We are about to honor the birth of our Lord so this is a special time of year. We want everybody to feel and to know they are cared for and not forgotten and certainly not alone,"
said Christa Blasko, Director of Cemeteries for the Diocese of Youngstown said.
 
The Ursuline High School Choir sang Christmas songs while families put ornaments on a tree to remember loved ones who have passed on.
 
Choirs from Austintown Fitch and the Blessed Sacrament Church Choir sang Christmas songs about the, Birth of Jesus Christ the Divine King and Messiah.
 
The service is to remind folks that loved ones although not here with us any longer their souls are immortal and live on.
 
"It is a celebration because death has no longer power over us, because Christ has conqurered death. It is a transition. It is a sad transition from this world to the next but that is the hope we have and it is a celebration and we are being called back to Jesus Christ," Deacon Mark Ivvo at Our Lady of Mount Carmel said.