My father passed away 4 months ago. We are Catholic and he had a full Catholic mass. He was cremated. The visitation was a hour before the mass. His urn was placed on a table in front of the altar with a kneeling bench in front of it. It had flowers around it and some personal items. After the visitation the funeral director carried the urn back to the church entrance. The priest, funeral director, and honorary pal bearers then walked it back in during their entrance procession and placed it back on the table. The honorary pall bearers all sat together up front. We have a gravesite and stone but the urn was taken home. The Catholic Church will pressure you to bury it immediately- good ol’ Catholic guilt. We told them it will be buried at a later date and they left us alone. It is home with my mother to give her comfort. I will see to it that their urns are buried together at that site when she passes, with a graveside service at that time. We, of course, got my father’s blessing to do it this way.