grieving – Those Who Mourn

Grief Healing: Deciding When to Sort Through Their Items

September 11, 2025

Grief is a scar that we forever carry. The healing is different for each person. You wouldn’t tell a person who broke their leg, “It’s been a week, get up and walk now.” Yet, we place that unrealistic expectation on ourselves in the healing process of grief. If your grief still feels like an open wound, it’s not time to get to work cleaning out their clothes, you need more healing first. … More Grief Healing: Deciding When to Sort Through Their Items

Healing After Divorce: Embracing Grief and Growth

July 10, 2025

And yet… some days, the hard parts still take my breath away, and I let myself feel the ache and mourn the loss of the wholeness I wanted for my children and my family. I rage inside myself for a bit and reach out to wise friends who remind me of who I am and how I want to love with courage, sacrifice and truth. … More Healing After Divorce: Embracing Grief and Growth

Dear Father: What are Gregorian Masses, and how can we offer them for our loved ones who have died?

June 5, 2025

The custom of offering Gregorian Masses for a particular soul recognizes that few people are immediately ready for Heaven after death, and that, through the infinite intercessory power of Christ’s sacrifice, made present in Holy Mass, a soul can be continually perfected in grace and enabled to enter finally into union with the Most Holy Trinity. … More Dear Father: What are Gregorian Masses, and how can we offer them for our loved ones who have died?

Take All the Time You Need

April 27, 2025

We can try to ignore it. Pretend it’s not there. Push past the ache, the silence, the traditions that no longer feel the same without the ones who helped build them. But I promise—if we don’t give grief space, it will find its way out in another form. … More Take All the Time You Need

Acknowledging Despair

April 23, 2025

And now, when the grief comes and I feel the sorrow in my body, I turn towards this part and acknowledge her, I comfort her. I spend time with her. As I do, I’m reminded of the Good Shepherd; He knows and cares for His sheep and His sheep know and trust Him. … More Acknowledging Despair

The Christian Manner in Which We Should Mourn Over Those Whom We Have Lost

February 22, 2025

It is always with tranquility I weep, always with a great sentiment of loving confidence in Divine Providence; for, since Our Lord loved death and delivered it as an object of our love, I cannot wish it ill, for taking away my sisters and others, provided that they die in the love of the holy death of the Savior. I regard this frail life as such a trifle, that I never turn to God with sweeter sentiments of love, than when He has stricken me or permitted me to be afflicted. … More The Christian Manner in Which We Should Mourn Over Those Whom We Have Lost

The Wedding Tree

February 18, 2025

Divorce is so commonplace in our society now that many people don’t stop and consider how many of us desperately did not want it. We fought it and prayed for any other outcome. There was no “divorce celebration” being thrown in our house. I was in mourning. The family I had known and loved was dead – and I didn’t even get to say goodbye. … More The Wedding Tree

Five Tips for Managing Grief Triggers

February 17, 2025

When unexpected grief happens, your first instinct may be to hide it – to distract yourself and keep moving. But when you continue doing this, the grief can build up.

Here are five simple tips that can help you to allow the grief, and then move on in a healthy way. … More Five Tips for Managing Grief Triggers