Losing a loved one is perhaps the most painful and overwhelming of life's experiences. It challenges you physically and emotionally, raises tough questions about the future, and incites impossible-to-answer questions about what you could have done differently. Your key to understanding all these issues ? and healing ? is your Catholic Faith. Grieving with the Help of Your Catholic Faith gives Catholics a meaningful way to help themselves or others through this challenging time. With personal stories, reassuring prayers, and spiritual wisdom, it provides: An understanding of how grief affects ? and can be lightened by ? the heart, soul, and mind The perspective to sort through difficult physical, emotional, and spiritual feelings Positive ways to deal with sorrow Empowering wisdom for building a stronger faith Tips for providing comfort to adults, teens, and children who are grieving A perfect resource for grief support groups, clergy, lay ministers, and individuals alike, Grieving with the Help of Your Catholic Faith offers comfort, empathy, and inspiration that will be relied upon time and time again.

Grieving with the Help of Your Catholic Faith

Hanley Duquin, Lorene

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Twenty-Third Publications

Sometimes we feel close to God in prayer. Sometimes we feel like he's very distant. But one promise we have from the Lord is that he always listens. In God Listens, you'll find real-life stories of answered prayer. Author Lorene Hanley Duquin shares stories she has collected from real people - people praying for physical healing, people praying for wisdom in making an important life decision, people in need of spiritual healing, and many more. Each chapter focuses on different forms of prayer and includes practical ideas for using them in your own life. God Listens and responds - sometimes just the way we want, and sometimes in unexpected ways, but always with deep and abiding love for us. Book jacket.

God Listens: Personal Stories of Answered Prayers

Grieving the Loss of a Loved One: Daily Meditations

"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape." C.S. LewisLorene Duquin, an experienced grief counselor was no stranger to understanding and explaining grief, and had helped many people work through it.
But when she lost her mother she found herself living in an entirely new space.
Grieving the Loss of a Loved One contains 52 powerful, one-page meditations that will help you work through the various aspects of grieving as they did for Lorene herself. The meditations are wide-ranging: they are deeply personal, but yet they address the emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, and social aspects of grief. Rooted in prayer, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and conveying important life lessons, each meditation features:
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<li>A brief reflection that expands upon the topic at hand</li>
<li>A prayer</li>
<li>Sidebar with a timely quote or anecdote<ul>Walk hand in hand with Lorene and experience the gift of a companion who can walk this painful walk at your side, through this unknown territory, where each passing day seems to reveal a new dimension of pain, loss, confusion but eventually transforms to healing and peace.</ul>
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