GRIEF

It Hurts!  It’s Lonely!  It’s Unpredictable!  It’s Normal! 

       It’s Healing!

When we experience the loss of someone we love, we face a period of time for personal grief.  No one can predict how long this grieving process should last—grief is personal, and everyone grieves in his or her own way.  There may be times during this process when we find that our experience of grief has taken complete control over all that we do.  Grief can be very unpredictable; it affects us mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. Grief can make us feel crazy.

The journey of grief is a hard road to travel—it hurts. Sometimes it helps to know that others share the same pain, the same feelings, and the same struggle.  The community of St. Marcelline wishes to reach out to you, or perhaps someone in your family, who find their struggle with grief hard to endure. 

If you or other family members find the struggle with grief too difficult, then we would like to invite you to our next series of support sessions, which will begin on Saturday, February 17th and continue each week through April 1st.  Each 1-1/2 hour session begins at 10:00 am, and is held in our Family Life Center.  Come to as many sessions as you like, or are able to attend. 

Please contact the Parish Administration Office at 847-524-4429 and register for our next series of sessions.  Should you have any questions regarding this program, a member of our ministry team will be happy to get back to you and answer any question you may have.

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