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Getting through the stages of mourning: is it easier when you are a Christian?
Getting through the stages of mourning: is it easier when you are a Christian?
12 December 2022
The loss of a loved one is always significant. In time, the period called mourning gradually develops. Getting through the stages of mourning: is it easier when you are a Christian? Sister Cecilia, prioress of the Community of the New Covenant and facilitator at the mourning sessions organized at the shrine of Our Lady of Montligeon, proposes answers to the Catholic Radio RCF.
Our Lady of Deliverance, Have compassion on all our departed,Especially those who are most in need of the Lord’s mercy.Intercede for all those who have gone before usAnd may the purifying love of God lead them to full deliverance.May our prayer, united with the prayer […]
Reincarnation or metempsychosis are trendy in our Western societies. These beliefs steeped in Buddhism and Hinduism confess an afterlife and a righteousness that rewards our acts at the end of our earthly life. This assertion is shared by the Christian faith in the resurrection. However, […]
What brought Christian Layral, a former drug-addicted partygoer, to Montligeon? Watching this man with a neatly combed white beard pray for hours a day in the basilica, how hard to imagine his journey to conversion.
Can the damned, the very people whom, in our imagination, are roasting in the fires of hell, change their mind after all? Find out more with Rev. Fr. Thomas Lapenne who refreshes a few truths on what hell is about, and how the dramatic possibility of ending there out of one’s free will engages one’s responsibility in one’s daily life.