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The Human Family: in death and life, divine and mortal

November 18, 2022 By Raymond Capo Leave a Comment

Upon occasion, we have the privilege and honor to sit with the dying, to accompany death as she visits and extinguishes the flame of life afore us.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: death, grief, resurrection

All Faithful Departed: Learning to Grieve

November 2, 2022 By Genevieve Razim Leave a Comment

“When you were a child, who taught you how to grieve?”

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: all souls, Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, death, grief

Of Prophets and Pandemic

November 19, 2020 By Anne Warner Leave a Comment

The kids have grown but the washing machine has not. Loads fill more quickly than in the days before hormone body odors kicked in.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: coronavirus, death, grief, prophet, standing rock

A season of loss

July 6, 2020 By Allison Sandlin Liles 4 Comments

It’s been a month of loss in our house.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: coronavirus, death, failure, grief, parenting

Protecting or Preparing our Children for Pain

August 29, 2019 By Allison Sandlin Liles 7 Comments

Last week as the kids and I arrived at Operation Kindness animal shelter for our weekly hour of volunteer work, I noticed Big Sugar was in a room off the front lobby. Big Sugar is one of our favorite dogs at the shelter.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, death, dog, grief, pain, parenting, resurrection

Grandpa’s Tent: Talking with children about death

August 10, 2018 By Sarah Kinney Gaventa Leave a Comment

Last night my husband and I went to see the movie based on Fred Roger’s ministry, Won’t You Be My Neighbor. In the 1980s, his show […]

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, children's books, death, Forward Movement, grief

All Faithful Departed: We die in order to love.

November 2, 2017 By Erin Hougland 1 Comment

How would we know love, true love, without its companion death?

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: All Saints' Day, Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, death, grief, loss, love

St Mary the Virgin Offers Comfort, Challenge and Hope

August 15, 2017 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

I am moved by the willing courage of a young person saying yes to God’s adventure. And I’m grateful for Mary, still bearing God to us.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, grief, Jesus, St. John, St. Luke, St. Mary the Virgin, theology, Theotokos

Lent: a season of grief, of grace, of peace.

March 14, 2017 By Wren Blessing 11 Comments

Before my mom died, I faced Lent with a kind of calculated resolve. Now the season opens up differently for me, into a sort of invitation.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: baby, birth, death, dying, grief, Lent, motherhood

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