Support and Encouragement for your Grief Journey
Understanding is the first step to healing. After the funeral, when all the activities are over, others return to their normal lives. But personal grief continues, and most people don’t know what to do next. Often our family and friends want to help but unless they have experienced it, they are at a loss. That’s the reason for our group – to reach out to help parishioners who have experienced the death of a spouse, child, father, mother, sibling or just a good friend cope with their pain.
Our group is led by members of the parish who have personally experienced grief and are rebuilding their lives. We are all in different stages of our loss, but just being with others in the same situation can be very supporting and uplifting
Our group begins and ends with prayer and includes videos led by grief support professionals together with people who have experienced personal loss. We discuss what is happening in our lives and offer companionship and caring – at all times respecting everyone and observing strict confidentiality during the meetings.
Most people attend for a while and when they feel ready to move on with their lives, they cease coming to the meetings – which is our goal – to enable people to live with their loss. We welcome anyone to come and become involved in the group.
This program is presented for 13 weeks beginning September 6th through November 29. All gatherings will be held in Parish Meeting Room 225 starting at 9:30 am and ending at 11:30 am. This helpful program is parish sponsored and includes a participant manual.
If there are any questions, there are brochures available in the Narthex in the back of church. You can also contact Lily at Lily.Landy@gmail.com or 314-330-7488 or Jeanice at jeanice.geis@yahoo.com or 314-398-7557.