This guide offers six simple steps and prayer exercises which lead you to consider various things you can do to help you through the crisis in your life. The steps outlined within are not hard and fast rules, but a suggested framework to assist you according to your needs, imagination and creativity. People go through the various stages of grief in ways that differ from person to person. Through prayer, you are lead to convert your hour of grief into a time of grace. Support groups as well as individuals will find much to assist them here.
Space is provided for taking notes or keeping a journal.
A Ministry for the Bereaved by Terence P. Curley, D. Min. This video presentation provides ways to love, trust and grieve in hopeful ways charted by Father Curley's presentation for the journey through grief. The bereaved are invited to explore the dynamics of grief, needs facing them, breaking open God's word in appropriate ways, and contemporary understanding about loss. Aspects of grief not mentioned in our society are given in this video. Suffering the loss of a loved one easily ranks among the most difficult and complex human challenges, for it is an experience which can tear away a significant aspect of the way we lead out lives.