Losing a baby is much like the season of Lent. You are already immersed in fasting, prayer and almsgiving, especially when you are carrying a baby with a fatal prenatal diagnosis. The Lent that I carried Frances, I saw the beauty in the season. I was uniting my suffering with God’s beautiful plan. I was …
The church in her wisdom provides for our beloved dead in the most beautiful of ways. Traditionally, Catholics offered masses for the deceased 3,7,30 days and annually after death. The masses asking God to usher our loved one unto Heaven, but my goodness from a human standpoint, those are definitely pinnacle times those wretchedly afflicted with grief …
