Hope & Healing

How to Pray for a Child Who Has Left the Church

How to Pray for a Child Who Has Left the Church

There is a particular ache in watching your child walk away from the Catholic faith. You remember their Baptism. Their First Communion. The prayers you taught them. The Sundays you...

How to Pray for a Child Who Has Left the Church

There is a particular ache in watching your child walk away from the Catholic faith. You remember their Baptism. Their First Communion. The prayers you taught them. The Sundays you...

When Someone You Love Leaves the Catholic Faith

When Someone You Love Leaves the Catholic Faith

It is a particular kind of pain when someone you love leaves the Catholic faith. Maybe they stopped going to Mass. Maybe they no longer believe in the Eucharist. Maybe...

When Someone You Love Leaves the Catholic Faith

It is a particular kind of pain when someone you love leaves the Catholic faith. Maybe they stopped going to Mass. Maybe they no longer believe in the Eucharist. Maybe...

How to Help Someone Who Is Grieving

How to Help Someone Who Is Grieving

When someone is grieving, people often want to say the right thing. And that can become the problem. We search for a sentence that will make the pain smaller. We...

How to Help Someone Who Is Grieving

When someone is grieving, people often want to say the right thing. And that can become the problem. We search for a sentence that will make the pain smaller. We...

When Grief Comes Back Years Later

When Grief Comes Back Years Later

You thought you were doing better. Years have passed. Life changed. You learned how to function again. You stopped expecting them to walk through the door. And then something small...

When Grief Comes Back Years Later

You thought you were doing better. Years have passed. Life changed. You learned how to function again. You stopped expecting them to walk through the door. And then something small...

Finding Hope When You Miss Someone Who Died

Finding Hope When You Miss Someone Who Died

Sometimes grief is quiet. It is not always crying at a funeral. Sometimes it is making coffee and realizing you still remember exactly how they took theirs. It is hearing...

Finding Hope When You Miss Someone Who Died

Sometimes grief is quiet. It is not always crying at a funeral. Sometimes it is making coffee and realizing you still remember exactly how they took theirs. It is hearing...

What Catholics Believe Happens After Death

What Catholics Believe Happens After Death

Death raises questions we cannot avoid forever. What happens when someone takes their last breath? Where does the soul go? Is judgment immediate? What is Purgatory? What about heaven? What...

What Catholics Believe Happens After Death

Death raises questions we cannot avoid forever. What happens when someone takes their last breath? Where does the soul go? Is judgment immediate? What is Purgatory? What about heaven? What...