Grief and Consolation
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Catholic Guide To Miscarriage Stillbirth And Infant Loss
$19.95Add to cartLosing a child is devastating. For Catholic parents who lose a child before or shortly after birth, this profound grief often comes with distinctive, sudden, and difficult questions about God, the Church, and who they are now as parents to the child they have lost. Why did God let this happen? Where is my baby? Can the Church help me make sense of this? What do we do now?
In A Catholic Guide to Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss, Abigail Jorgensen serves as a companion and guide through perinatal loss in light of Catholic teaching. She addresses difficult medical, theological, and practical questions asked by loss parents and the friends, family, pastors, ministers, and medical professionals who support them.
Jorgensen has first-hand experience, both as a mother who has lost children in miscarriage and as a Catholic bereavement doula–someone who walks with families through early child loss. Through her own experiences, she discovered how hard it can be to find adequate answers and spiritual help from the within the Church, so she wrote the book that she and her clients have needed.
This first-of-its-kind resource blends Jorgensen’s professional expertise with the wisdom of the Church to provide an essential guide through the most pressing concerns that arise during this difficult time. Drawing on the Bible, the Church’s prayer traditions, the saints, sacraments, official teaching documents, and grief support research, Jorgensen offers comfort, hope, and compassionate responses to tough questions, including:
*Why does perinatal loss happen?
*Will I be with my baby again?
*What are normal emotions, and when should I seek extra support?
*How should we grieve as parents?
*What saints can I turn to as a loss parent?
*How do I approach God with these painful questions?
*Why would God allow such a short life?
*How can I honor my baby’s memory?
*What if I say the wrong thing to someone who is grieving the loss of their child?
*How do I support someone who experiences anger during their grief?Through easy-to-navigate question and answer sections, helpful definitions, and practical takeaways, A Catholic Guide to Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss provides parents and their support networks a crucial lifeline through this heartbreaking experience.
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Empty Cradle A Full Heart
$15.99Add to cartNearly a million parents suffer a miscarriage or infant death each year. Theirs can be a lonely, quiet grief-with many emotions experienced but not easily expressed. This collection of more than a hundred short meditations beautifully interweaves the very real feelings of bereaved parents with Scripture passages that provide comfort, direction, and a sense of hope.
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Grieving The Loss Of A Loved One
$16.95Add to cartPain, loss, and confusion can transform into healing and peace when you take the journey with an experienced grief counselor who experienced this pain first-hand when it struck her own family. Her practical, prayerful meditations address all aspects of grief.
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Handbook For Those Who Grieve
$12.95Add to cartA resource for family, friends, ministers, caregivers, and colleagues
The path to grief recovery. . .
This valuable resource guide provides practical information for people who are grieving and the people who support them. Material is presented in an easy-to-read format for quick reference and features:
Tips for planning funerals and wakes
Sample sympathy letters appropriate for a variety of grief situations
“Do” and “don’t” lists for family and friends of the grieving
Helpful lists of pertinent planning details
Information on helping children grieve
A comprehensive list of publications and organizations that provide grief support“After twenty years of ministering to the bereaved and consulting other ministers, this is the first comprehensive book that I would recommend to those who grieve and minister. This truly is a text for life.”
-Deacon Ray Deabel, president-elect, National Catholic Ministry to the Bereaved -
Inner Voice Of Love
$15.00Add to cartThis is Henri Nouwen’s “secret journal.” It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating anguish and despair, he was still able to keep a journal in which he wrote each day a spiritual imperative to himself, which emerged from his conversations with friends and supporters.
For more than eight years, Nouwen felt that what he wrote was too raw and private to share with others. Instead he published ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son,’ in which he expressed some of the insights gained during his mental and spiritual crisis. But then friends asked him, “Why keep your anguish hidden from the many people who have been nurtured by your writing? Wouldn’t it be of consolation for many to know about the fierce inner battle that lies underneath so many of your spiritual insights?”
For the countless men and women who have to live through the pain of broken relationships or who suffer from the loss of a loved one, ‘The Inner Voice of Love’ offers new courage, new hope, even new life.
