Navigating the loss of a mother, especially if you were close, is a difficult experience. It can leave you feeling lost, alone, hurting, and unsure of how to process the pain and grief you feel. Prayers for the loss of a mother, however, can help bring comfort, encouragement, and solac...
Winning.AS Diana is laid to rest, we have to try somehow to orientate ourselves in the stifling blackness of this tunnel of national grief in which we have all been travelling for a week. Diana was not a saint, but she was a genuinely good human being from whom we could all learn ...
1[I] speak truth in Christ, [I]do not lie,with my consciousness witnessingwith me in [the] holy spirit,2that there is for me a greatpainand an incessantgrieffor my heart.3For [I] was praying to be a curse, I myself [was praying to be] away from Christon behalf ofmy brothers,...
Bereavement Novena - During times of bereavement, when the weight of loss feels unbearable, our faith can become a guiding light in the darkness of grief. This novena is dedicated to those navigating the stages of grief after the death of loved ones. Bethlehem Novena - This Novena prayer is...
a shelter for time of overwhelming grief a shade in times of sorrow too deep for words a shield from times of unimaginable loss. May you be comforted by the presence of those who love and support you by faith in the eternal Loving One by the memories of what you hold most dear. May ...
Prayer for the loss of a loved one O God, our Father, as our loved one departs this world, I lift our family through your grace. I pray that you’re with us during this time of grief. Please surround us and our loved ones with your presence and peace. The children that are left ...
“fearfully and wonderfully made”. We love them, and they have our deepest respect, admiration and support. We carry their grief, and have wept with them as their dreams for their children were shattered. As they have mourned the loss of their children, we have mourned and wept with them...
18. "I pray that everything we are sowing in grief, we will reap in joy. It will be a different sort of joy, we both know that. There is the uncomplicated joy of those who haven’t suffered and then there is the joy that is born of suffering, the joy that is deeper for the ...
had died. There are no words to heal the wounds, no actions to reverse the grief, no thoughts to lessen the pain. Grief envelops every fiber of our beings. And quite honestly, my grief doesn’t even begin to compare to my cousins’ grief. They lost their mom, their biggest and loude...
throughout the year, is often seen as an opportunity for people to commune personally with their own close losses: a parent, a spouse, or a child. How do you balance the personal nature of what is supposed to be a day of self-introspection with the communal grief over a devastating ...