January 21, 2025 “And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn’t seem worth starting anything. I can’t...
January 20, 2025 “Every holy hour we spend before the Blessed Sacrament so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it will be recorded in Heaven and retold for all eternity. It opens up the floodgates of God’s merciful Love upon the world. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament...
January 19, 2025 “In this contemporary culture, what could be an effective means by which we might be able to cue one another to say, ‘Take it easy on me, I’m grieving’? Maybe if we reinvented, or re-established the practice of wearing black and created our own...
January 18, 2025 How Do I Know if I am Ready for a Bereavement Group? Nothing can prepare us for losing someone we love. The intensity of the emotions is not like anything we have ever experienced before. Shock, fear, anger, guilt, regret, sadness, isolation…. the...
January 17, 2025 I’ll Lend You A Child by Edgar Guest I will lend you, for a little time,A child of mine, he said.For you to love her while she lives,And mourn for when she’s dead. It may be six or seven years,Or twenty-two or three.But will you, till I call her...
January 16, 2025 New Day Bereavement Programs Scheduled for 2025 “Although I knew God was carrying me, the New Day program showed me how to accept my losses and truly find the path to healing,” a participant recently wrote. “New Day gave me the gifts of confidence,...
