Gate of Heaven Cemetery
22555 Cristo Rey Drive
Los Altos, CA 94024 Phone: 650-428-3730 Fax: 650-428-3733
Gate of Heaven Gate of Heaven Cemetery was established in 1971 to fulfill the needs of the Catholic communities in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. Located just off Foothill Expressway and Highway 280, it is conveniently reached by freeway from most of the Bay Area. Gate of Heaven Cemetery consists of over 50 acres in the rolling hills above Los Altos and a staff committed to serving you with dignity and care.
Gate of Heaven offers a variety of burial locations, including spaces for cremated remains, indoor and outdoor crypts, in-ground burial for individuals, couples, and families, as well as a special section for Military Veterans.
The terms "Gate of Heaven" refers to Mary the Gate through which Christ entered this world.
MARY, we greet you as the Gate of Heaven because you are the Mother of the Gate of Heaven, Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. He said, "I am the Door. If anyone enter by me he shall be safe, and shall go in and out, and shall find pastures... I came that they may have life, and have it more abundantly" (John 10,10).
MARY, you are the Gate of Heaven because through your hands God imparts to us all the graces by means of which we obtain heaven. God left it to your own free choice to accept or to refuse the honor of becoming the Mother of His Son. But having become the Mother of God, you share in the work of our Redemption.
MARY, you are all-powerful with God by your intercession. Your divine Son is ever ready to listen to your prayers, because He desires so ardently to gladden your heart, so that you seem to command rather than to ask.
Your loving Son said, "Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able" (Luke 13,24). Banish from my heart all sinful desires, all attachment to the world and its goods and pleasures. Help me to live a mortified life so that I may be able to enter heaven through the narrow gate. Teach me to be humble, and in all things to seek the honor of God and to bear with patience the crosses of life.
Through your prayers, be the Gate of Heaven to me, for you speak in the words of the Scripture: "Blessed is the man that hears me and that watches daily at my gates, and waits at the posts of my doors. He that shall find me shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord" (Prov. 8,34).
Prayer May the prayer of the Mother of God help Your people, O Lord, and though we know that she passed from this life, as every mortal must, may we feel her intercession for us before You in heavenly glory. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
We invite you to visit Gate of Heaven Cemetery to learn more about burial options.
